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and a larger triangular blotch before the middle of the fifth segment, this 
extending over the cilia; the last mentioned patches and blotches tawny- 
orange, paler orange-yellowish in the middle, first, mixed, and second, 
edged posteriorly, with brownish ; a large round black dot on 2 / 3 of the fifth 
segment extending to the middle of the cilia; sixth segment with the 
anterior half' tinged pale fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous beyond the 
base, at 1 / 4 , opposite the posterior edge of the second orange patch, twice 
at 3 / 4 , before the apex, and in the apex, respectively; cilia white, greyish 
opposite the grey transverse fascia, pale fulvous along the basal half of 
the sixth segment. 
Uncus long, slender. Gnathos with moderately thickened arms. Valva 
gradually dilated above, cucullus small, narrowed, somewhat curved 
upward, top conical, a strong curved labis at the base of the valva above. 
Vinculum with a broad, rounded, moderately bristled base. Furea porrect, 
two long, slender, sinuate and narrowed blades. Aedoeagus short, very 
broad, slightly curved. Cornuti, a denticulate fold. (Slide no. 913 D.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, February 11, 1939 (the redescribed specimen). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 22, 1939. Two males. A conspicuous, elegantly 
coloured species. Meyrick perhaps omitted to mention the round black 
patch on the posterior part of the fifth segment of the hind wings. 
Orneodes eudasys spec. nov. (fig. 715) 
evdaavg = densely haired 
rf 18 mm. Head yellow, on the vertex mixed with dark brown, frons 
forming a strong projecting cone. Palpus moderately long, subascending, 
median segment with a strong projecting tuft of scales at the apex beneath, 
terminal segment about 1 / 2 , very slender, slightly clavate, obliquely 
ascending; pale yellow. Thorax dark brown, mixed with whitish-yellow. 
Abdomen dark brown, with narrow whitish transverse bands along the 
posterior edges of the tergites, genital segments and venter pale yellow. 
Legs pale yellow, anterior femur with the fore edge, tibia, and tarsus 
throughout, dark brown. Fore wing and cilia ochreous-yellow, markings 
blackish-brown. Base suffused with dark brown, this suffusion with its 
upper third occupying about 1 / 5 of wing, its lower 2 / 3 reaching to x / 4 of the 
wing length ; an elongate dark brown patch on 2 / s of the costa not reaching 
the base of the first cleft, with the posterior edge strongly inwards-oblique, 
dorsal cilia with a blackish bar opposite each the anterior and the posterior 
edge of the patch ; an elongate patch on the fifth and the sixth segments, 
just beyond the base of the fifth cleft, with the cilia opposite these, 
blackish; a transverse inwardly oblique fascia from 3 / 5 of the costa, attenu- 
ated by black cilia; this fascia broad on the first, somewhat narrower on 
the second, broadest on the third segment, and reaching the base of the 
