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Gracilaria megalotis, n. sp. 



$9- 10 — 12 mm. Head pale ochreous or greyish-ochreous. sometimes 

 brownish-tinged on crown, scales of forehead somewhat overhanging. Palpi 

 ochreous irrorated with dark-fuscous. Antennae dark grey, obscurely pale- 

 ringed, basal joint-clothed in front with large projecting tuft of ochreous and 

 dark fuscous scales. Thorax brownish-ochreous tinged with violet. Abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, beneath yellow. Anterior and middle femora and tibiae 

 violet-ochreous irrorated with blackish, tarsi white banded with yellow-ochre- 

 ous, posterior legs ochreous, tibiae tinged with violet-fuscous. Foiewings very 

 narrowly elongate, moderately pointed ; apex round pointed ; shilling violet- 

 ochreous, more or less strigulated finely with fuscous ; a triangular costal patch 

 more or less suffused with pale yellowish towards costa, its sides indicated 

 by series of small black raised scale tufts, anterior only partially extending on 

 costa from f to ^, and reaching dorsum, where its apex forms a small scale- 

 projection ; two or three other small scattered black scale tufts, and two or three 

 scattered black scales on dorsal margin in cilia ; posterior area of costa more or 

 less widely suffused witb pale yellowish ; a transverse bar of deep purple 

 suffusion before apex : cilia pale ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous, some- 

 times suffused with bright fulvous towards base, towards tornus grey. Hind- 

 wings and cilia dark grey. 



Khasi Hills, in March ; four specimens. Specially characterised by the large 

 basal tuft of antennae. 



Gracilaria acrothemia, n. sp. 



<J$. 8- — 12 mm. Head brownish, face whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish, tip sometimes dark fuscous. Antennas grey. Thorax brownish. 

 Abdomen dark grey, beneath whitish-ochreous. Anterior and middle femora 

 and tibiae dark purple-fuscous mixed with blackish, tarsi whitish, posterior 

 legs whitish-ochreous. Forewings very narrowly elongate, moderately pointed, 

 acute ; ochreous-brownish tinged with violet, paler and more yellowish-tinged 

 towards costa posteriorly ; about eight minute black dots on costa from about 

 4 to f ; a few black specks in middle of disc ; an undefined patch of dark 

 fuscous irroration towards apex, sometimes extended as a cloudy streak to 

 middle of disc : cilia grey, round apex with several blackish lines. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Colombo, four specimens bred in October, from larva? mining leaves of 

 Cajanus indicus (Green) ; Hakgala, Ceylon, two specimens bred in March and 

 April from larvse on Atylosia Candollei, drawing together terminal leaves to 

 form a chamber (Green). The two food-plants are closely related, Legunanosce ; 

 the apparent difference in habits is curious, but the two sets of specimens seem 

 exactly alike in characters, except that the Atylosia-feeAers are larger. 

 Gracilaria dogmatica , n. sp. 



$9- 7 — 9 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous-brown, with two broad 

 metallic-grey longitudinal streaks, scales of crown projecting between antenna;, 

 face white. Palpi white, terminal joint thickened with scales towards apex. 



