SCYTHRIDiE. 
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Scythris obstans, n. sp. 
<S . 13 mm. Head, thorax whitish-grey. Palpi whitish-grey, 
terminal joint whitish. Forewings pale grey irrorated grey; plical 
and first discal stigmata well-marked, blackish, plical obliquely 
anterior, second discal only indicated by two or three blackish 
scales ; cilia pale greyish. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Natal, Weenen, September (Thomasset) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Hus.). 
Scythris lychnitis Meyr. 
Bombay, Kaira, April, flying in a sandy place among Cassia and 
thistles [Maxwell). 
Scythris sciochalca, n. sp. 
<$. 12 mm. Head, palpi pale greyish-ochreous. Thorax 
greyish-bronzy. Abdomen dark grey, beneath light yellowish 
except towards base. Forewings and cilia greyish-bronzy. Hind- 
wings and cilia dark grey. 
Uganda, Kampala, April ( Hargreaves ) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Scythris deplanata, n. sp. 
<$ . 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax whitish-grey. Forewings 
narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex rather produced ; rather glossy 
whitish-grey ; plical and second discal stigmata minute, faintly 
grey, hardly traceable : cilia ochreous-whitish, towards tornus 
faintly greyish. Hindwings 4-6 rather approximated ; grey ; cilia 
whitish-grey-ochreous, in some lights faintly rosy-tinged. 
Kashmir, Srinagar, 5200 feet, May; Kumaon, Muktesar, 7000 
feet, May ( Fletcher ) ; 2 ex. 
Scythris fissirostris, n. sp. 
d 2 • 10-15 mm. Head, thorax grey, more or less mixed white. 
Palpi dark grey, white towards base, apex of joints white. Abdo¬ 
men grey or greyish-ochreous, beneath ochreous-whitish or whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate; grey; a mode¬ 
rate white median streak from base to about | or |, cut by a fine 
line along fold, sometimes partially edged dark fuscous suffusion, 
often with plical and second discal stigmata appearing as dark 
fuscous spots on its lower margin and in its apex respectively ; 
costal edge white except towards base ; remainder of wing variably 
strewn or suffusedly streaked with white : cilia light grey, on costa 
mostly or wholly white. Hindwings veins all separate, 6 and 7 
ceutrally approximated but diverging towards both extremities; 
grey; cilia light grey or greyish-ochreous. 
Texas, Alpine (5000-7000 feet), Forestburg; New Mexico, Bent, 
7000 feet; April, May, July, August, 40 ex. Varies much in 
detail; nearly related to dividua Meyr. from the high Peruvian 
Andes, but that is a much darker insect, without the white costal 
edge or general white suffusion and streaking. 
