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cilia ; the third to the sixth segments, with the same bands only indicated 
by dark edges and greyish-fuscous coloured cilia between these edges, so 
that each segment appears to bear a series of fuscous transverse inequally 
spaced dots, connected in pairs by dark costal and dorsal cilia as follows: 
third segment with the first dot at 1 / 4 , connected by dark cilia with the 
second, well beyond this, the third, and the fourth dots remote, connected 
by dark cilia; the fifth, and the sixth, much more approximated, connected, 
at 3 / i ; finally, the seventh, and the eighth still more approximated, at 
about 7 / 8 ; fifth segment with eight transverse marks, gradually becoming 
more approximated posteriorly, first at 1 / i of the wing, last mark sub- 
apical; cilia dark between the first and the second marks (indistinct), 
between the fourth, and the fifth, between the sixth, and the seventh, and 
beyond the eighth to before the apex; fifth lobe with nine dots, first 
rather before 1 / 1 of the wing, all pairs, i.e. the first and the second, the 
third and the fourth, etc., with dark cilia between them, subapical dot 
separate; not cleft base of wing with an oblique narrowed blotch of a 
fuscous irroration, its base occupying the dorsum from beyond the base 
of the wing, to halfway the base of the last cleft, its top obliquely ascending 
over, and beyond, the base of the second cleft. Hind wing and cilia, pale 
ochreous-yellow, with four slightly undulating brighter yellow broad 
transverse fasciae, accentuated by dark fuscous transverse irrorated 
marks, representing their edges; cilia between these marks blackish- 
fuscous, costal darker than dorsal; each segment with a subapical dark 
fuscous dot, tip and apical cilia also dark fuscous. 
Ovipositor lobes pointed, moderately sclerotized. Posterior edge of the 
ninth and the eighth segments with long fine bristles and dense bristle- 
scales, respectively. Ostium small. Limen, a weak transverse plate, with 
the upper edge broadly incised in the middle. Ductus bursae short, strongly 
plicate. Bursa copulatrix denticulate. Signum, a round plate near to 
opening of the bursa, bearing huge prostrate concave dentations. (Slide 
no. 914 D, type.) 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 25, 1939. One, rather damaged, specimen. 
Orneodes niphadosema spec. nov. (fig. 719) 
vi<pag = snow, afj/ia = a mark 
$ 15 mm. Head white, vertex suffused with light fuscous. Antenna 
somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally, whitish, banded with light fuscous 
above. Palpus moderately long, curved, subascending, diverging: median 
segment slightly dilated towards the apex, white, dark grey laterally, 
terminal segment 2 / 3 , strongly flattened dorso-ventrally, white. Thorax 
whitish, irrorated, and coarsely dotted, with rather light fuscous, tinged 
greyish, dotting arranged in three ill-defined transverse bands : first band 
anterior, second submedian, third at 2 / s , each second and third tending 
