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yellow-whitish line from -i of costa to tornus, somewhat indented 
towards costa: cilia pale grey, base whitish. Hindwings light 
grey, extreme bases of scales whitish-hyaline, forming a fine 
ribbing; cilia whitish-grey. 
British New Guinea, Biagi, Mambare B., 5000 feet [ Meek ) ; 
1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). 
Thiotricha gemmulans, n. sp. 
6 . 10 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi dark grey, apex white. 
Fore wings narrow, apex rather produced, acute; white; costal 
edge black towards base; a wedgeshaped dark grey mark along 
lower half of termen, above this two fine equal dark fuscous lines 
meeting at a point towards apex, lower from its anterior end, upper 
from costa, just beyond their apex a dark fuscous transverse mark; 
a round black apical dot: cilia whitish-grey, base tinged rosy 
beneath and above apical dot; beyond it a short dark bar and 
posterior line. Hindwings and cilia whitish-grey. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, April (11. M. Maxwell ); 1 ex. 
Stomoptervx sphenodoxa, n. sp. 
cJ. 9 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, base 
dark fuscous. Thorax dark bluish-fuscous. Forewings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 
6 connate with 7; dark bluish-fuscous; a triangular whitish- 
ochreous spot on costa beyond middle : cilia grey speckled blackish 
except tips. Hindwings apex acute, long-produced, termen deejdy 
emarginate ; dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, bred May from pupae in folded edge of 
leaves of Crotalciria ( Leguminosce ) ; empty mines of larvae observed 
in the leaves (11. M. Maxwell) ; 2 ex. 
Idiophantis thiopeda, n. sp. 
17 mm. Head, thorax pale yellow. (Palpi broken.) Fore¬ 
wings elongate, costa slightly arched, termen deeply excavated 
beneath long apical projection ; 2 and 3 coincident, 6 present; pale 
yellow ; a fuscous basal patch occupying nearly 3 of wing, edge 
convex ; an oblique wedgeshaped mark formed of a pale greyish- 
ochreous streak between two dark fuscous streaks from costa about 
| to angle of a metallic-lilac-fuscous fasciate blotch occupying 
termen from beneath apex to tornus, pointed beneath, its upper 
posterior angle blackish-fuscous ; apical projection including a white 
longitudinal streak limited anteriorly by a fine rather inwards- 
oblique fuscous strigula to terminal blotch: cilia pale glossy lilac- 
fuscous, a dark basal line round apex and lower edge of apical 
projection. Hindwings light grey : Gilia pale grey, a darker basal 
line round apex. 
British New Guinea, Hydrographer Mts., 2500 feet, January 
(Eiclihorn); 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). 
