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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0706.00009.] Let \(G\) be a linear semisimple real Lie group, let \(\Gamma\) be a discrete subgroup of \(G\), and let \((\Gamma_ i)\) be a sequence of normal subgroups of finite indexes in \(\Gamma\) such that \(\Gamma_{i+1}\subset \Gamma_ i\) for all \(i\) and \(\bigcap_ i\Gamma_ i=\{1\}\). \textit{J. Rohlfs} and \textit{B. Speh} have derived a limit formula for the sum of the multiplicities in the cuspidal spectrum of a fixed discrete series \(L\)- packet for \(\Gamma\) arithmetic [Duke Math. J. 55, 199-211 (1987; Zbl 0626.22008)]. An upper bound for the ``limit'' multiplicity in the cuspidal spectrum of discrete series was then found by \textit{G. Savin} in the case when the \(\Gamma_ i\)'s are congruence subgroups [Invent. Math. 95, 149-159 (1989; Zbl 0673.22003)]. Combined with the limit formula of Rohlfs and Speh, this result gives the exact limit multiplicity formula for discrete series. In the present paper, the author applies a method previously developed by him and \textit{D. DeGeorge} of \(\Gamma\) cocompact [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 107, 133-150 (1978; Zbl 0397.22007)] in order to prove Savin's result for \(\Gamma\) arithmetic and a class of \(\Gamma_ i\)'s. The basic ingredient of this proof is an estimate for the Hilbert- Schmidt norm of certain convolution operators on the cuspidal spectrum for arithmetic groups.