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EXOTIC HICEOLEPIDOPTEEA. 
Laspeyresia chelias Meyr. 
Bred in August from larva feeding among spun leaves on new 
shoots of Ochna ( Ochnacece) ; pupa in a compact cocoon streaked 
reddish (Maxwell). 
Laspeyresia stirpicola, n. sp. 
<5 $ . 12-15 mm. Head, thorax grey more or less speckled 
dark and pale. Palpi whitish partially suffused or speckled grey. 
Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated, termen somewhat obliquely 
rounded ; dark grey more or less whitish-speckled ; costa blackish - 
tinged, with about 11 groups of 2-4 very fine whitish etriguise ; 
very oblique dark or blackish strigse from costa at about middle 
and |; an oblique pale blotch from dorsum beyond middle very 
obscurely indicated, its exterior edge limited by a suffused blackish 
streak becoming obsolete towards dorsum; some irregular ven- 
oblique leaden-metallic strigse from costa posteriorly, in obscured 
by a patch of whitish suffusion towards costa beyond cell; ocellus 
laterally edged leaden-metallic, containing three somewhat elongate 
black dots, above these three others less marked, forming with 
them a rather curved series; a small dark apical spot: cilia grey 
with rows of white points. Hindwings dark grey, cubital hair- 
pecten whitish ; cilia grey-whitish, suffused grey on outer half, a 
dark grey basal shade. 
Bihae & Oeissa, Choto Hagpur plateau, bred in May from larvae 
boring in tender pollarded stems of Butea frondosa (Leguminosce) 
(Office of-Indian Imperial Entomologist) ; 4 ex. An obscure species, 
allied to jaculatrix. 
Laspeyresia anticipans, n, sp. 
5 • 13 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light grey speckled whitish. 
Forewings fuscous, on basal half slightly speckled whitish, more 
strongly towards base ; costa darker, with rather oblique strigulae 
of whitish speckling on anterior half and paired stronger whitish 
strigulae on posterior half; suffused violet-leaden oblique striae 
occupying most of posterior | of wing, darker fuscous oblique 
streaks between these from costa beyond middle and at |; ocellus 
whitish-speckled, edged with violet-leaden streaks, and enclosing 
three blackish dots : cilia grey speckled whitish, basal third suffused 
whitish within a line of blackish speckling. Hindwings 3 and 4 
stalked to middle; dark grej-; cilia grey, a dark grey subbasal 
line. 
S. Ixdia, Pollachi, Coimbatore district, bred in August from larva 
webbing flowers of mango (Man gif era) (Menon) ; 1 ex. (Brit. 
Mus.) Very similar to the tricentra group (all attached to Legu¬ 
minosce), but distinguished by absence of whitish speckling on 
posterior half of wing. 
