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spot, whence a white line runs along termen to apex, a small spot 
of white suffusion on costa above middle of terminal line: cilia 
greyish, some slight basal blackish speckling. Hindwings grey; 
cilia light grey. 
Kanaka, Khumbarvada, May ( Maxwell ) ; 1 ex. A peculiar type. 
Labdia tribrachynta, n. sp. 
2 . 8 mm. Head glossy grey. Palpi dark grey mixed white. 
Antennae dark fuscous riuged whitish. Thorax dark fuscous. 
Forewings narrow, attenuated from ^ to acute apex; dark grey 
irrorated blackish; three narrow white fasciae, first at |, hardly 
oblique, reaching fold, second beyond middle, parallel, nearly 
reaching dorsum, third at |, somewhat inwards-oblique, not 
reaching termen : cilia grey. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Kanaka, Karwar, May ( Maxwell ); 1 ex. 
Labdia helena, n. sp. 
5 • 15 mm. Head pale pinkish-ochreous, face iridescent 
ochreous-whitish. Palpi shining whitish-ochreous. Antennae pale 
ochreous, towards apex ochreous-whitish with two narrow grey 
bands and a broader one at |. Thorax light rosy-ochreous, a 
reddish-orange lateral stripe and light blue-grey sublateral. 
Abdomen grey, 3 basal segments ochreous-yellowish. Forewings 
very narrow, apex long-pointed, produced ; reddish-orange ; costal, 
supramedian, and plical slender irideseent-blue-grey streaks from 
base to beyond middle, supramedian furcate posteriori}’, plical bent 
up at extremity, connected with dorsum by 3 or 4 slender irregular 
whitish-grey bars; these streaks terminated by a suboval pale 
yellow blotch extending over termen to near apex, emitting a short 
projection between forks of supramedian streak, connected with 
costa by two pairs of whitish strigulae, and containing two golden- 
metallic dots on lower part of terminal edge: cilia pale yellow, 
beneath tornus tinged greyish with base reddish-orange. Hind¬ 
wings rather dark grey; cilia pale greyish, round apex whitish- 
yellowish. 
Hew Ireland, December (EicJihorii) ; 1 ex. 
Stagmatophora pentagama, n. sp. 
J. 13-16 mm. Head whitish. Antennae fuscous, apical 
portion with five equidistant whitish rings. Palpi whitish, second 
and terminal joints each with two, fuscous rings, subapical of 
terminal dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, posterior third 
whitish with two dark fuscous dots at extremity, apical half of 
tegulae whitish. Forewings dark fuscous; dorsal edge white 
towards base; three narrow irregular-edged white or whitish 
fasciae, first at entire, rather oblique, marked with pale brownish- 
ochreous raised spots on posterior edge above and below fold, 
second median, direct, interrupted in disc, marked with pale 
brownish-ochreous raised spots on posterior edge above and below 
interruption, third widely interrupted to form a triangular costal 
