THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



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EPIPASCHIANiE. 



4445. Macalla validalis, insert Orthaga basalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) 

 xvii, p. 556 (1906), nee Leech. 



ENDOTRICHINyF. 



4508. a. Hendecasis minutalis, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), xvii, p. 214 

 (1906). 



$. Palpi extending about the length of head, the 3rd joint minute ; fore- 

 wing with veins 7 and 10 stalked, 8*9 absent. 



White ; palpi slightly tinged with rufous at sides ; wing slightly tinged with 

 rufous. Forewing with black point below base of cell ; an oblique, fuscous, almost 

 medial line from cell to inner margin and traces of a fine brown line from costa 

 beyond middle to inner margin near tornus. Hindwing with oblique brown 

 antemedial line and faint sinuous line from costa beyond middle to tornus. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. Hambantota. Exp. 12 mill. 



Genus. Oxychirota. Type. 



Oxychirota, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1885, p. 438 paradoxa 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending about 1£ 

 times length of head in the Australian species, about twice in the Ceylon species, 

 and fringed with long scales above, the 3rd small, acuminate ; maxillary palpi 

 about half length of labial and dilated with scales ; frons with conical pro- 

 minence ; antenna? nearly as long as forewing and annulated with scales at the 

 joints ; head globular ; leg very long ; tibiae with the outer spurs half length of 

 inner, the outer medial spur of hind tibia minute. Forewing linear lanceolate, 

 the costa curved towards apex and fringed with hair ; the inner margin and 

 termen nearly in a straight line and fringed with very long cilia from middle 

 of inner margin to ap ex, the inner margin with slight scale teeth ; veins 2, 3, 4, 

 very short ; 5 from near 4 ; 6 from middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from near angle of cell ; 12 free. Hindwing linear 

 fringed with long cilia on costa and inner margin which has small scale teeth ; 

 veins 2, 3, 4 short and very indistinct ; 5 from a point with 4 ; discocellulars 

 nvisible ; 7 from 6 anasto mosing with 8 to middle of wing. 



Oxychirota ceylonica- £ 



