INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 151 



ochreoua. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, in $ with a dark fuscous transverse 

 streak on each segment before margin. Forewings eloncate, narrow, moderate- 

 ly pointed, tolerably acute ; whitish-ochreous, partially tinged with brownish, 

 in $ thinly, in 9 more largely sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a curved or 

 obtusely angulated ochreous-whitisli fascia at £, followed by more or less dark 

 fuscous suffusion ; stigmata dark fuscous, distinct, plical obliquely before first 

 discal, and touching posterior edge of pale fascia, a larger dark fuscous dot on 

 tornus beneath second discal : cilia whitish-ochreous or whitish-fuscous, some- 

 what sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings in $ pale fuscous, basal third 

 suffused with whitish-ochreous or pale yellowish, in $ fuscous, darker towards 

 apex ; cilia whitish-ochreous or whitish-fuscous. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, from November to January ; fourteen specimens (Pole). 



Blastobasis pulverea, n. sp. 



$ 9- 14-16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, crown irrorated with fuscous. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous, terminal joint in g slender, 

 acute. Antennae pale greyish-ochreous. Thorax ochreous-whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, in $ with ferruginous segmental 

 bands. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, moderately pointed, apex tolerably 

 obtuse ; grey-whitish, suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous ; discal stigmata 

 tolerably distinct, round, dark fuscous, at j and | respectively ; cilia pale greyish, 

 sprinkled with whitish points, and with a few dark fuscous scales towards base. 

 Hindwings with vein 5 connate with or out of stalk of 3 and 4 ; grey, towards 

 base and in cell pale and subhyaline ; cilia light grey, slightly ochreous-tinged. 



India (without further locality) ; four specimens, bred from larvae feeding 

 on colonies of Tachardia lacca (Green). 



BypaUma doleropa, n. sp. 



£. 12-15 mm. Head whitish, crown irrorated with dark grey, face some- 

 times ochreous-tinged. Palpi whitish, irrorated with dark grey except apex of 

 second joint. Antennae dark grey. Thorax whitish, mixed with pale grey 

 and irrorated with dark grey. Abdomen grey-whitish mixed with grey, 

 segments with ferruginous bands. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex rouud-pointsd, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; whitish, 

 irregularly irrorated with dark grey or blackish ; stigmata cloudy, formed of 

 blackish inoration, discal rather large, round, often placed in a longitudinal 

 whitish streak, plical elongate, slightly before first discal; cilia light grey 

 round apex irrorated with whitish and blackish. Hindwings grey, becoming 

 semitransparent towards base ; cilia grey, paler towards tips. 



Satpura Range, Khandesh, bred in February ; five specimens (Annandale). 

 " Parasitic in lac, in company with the Noctuid Eublemma amubilia" (Annan- 

 dale). 



Stenomid^e. 



Agriophara byrsina, n. sp. 



<£$. 22-25 mm. Head fuscous-whitish, sometimes brownish-tinged. Palpi 

 fuscous-whitish, lower half of second joint suffused with dark fuscous 



