INDIAN M1CR0-LEPID0PTERA. 829 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January (Pole) ; Khaai Hills, in August ; two specimens. 



Gracilaria syrphetias, Meyr. 



(Gracilaria syrphetias, Meyr. Journ, Bombay N. H. Soc. XVII. 984.) 



Also from Dodanduwa and Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, in April and September 

 (Fletcher) ; some specimens reaching 17 mm. in expanse. 



Gracilaria prismatica, Meyr. 



(Gracilaria prismatica, Meyr., Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. XVII, 983.) 



Also taken in January. 



Gracilaria chalcanthes, Meyr. 



(Gracilaria chalcanthes, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1894, 25.) 



Hiterto only from Burma. 



Gracilaria isochrysa, n. sp. 



9 • 14 mm. Head shining coppery-bronze, face silvery-white. Palpi whitish, 

 second joint with a few blackish scales, apex of terminal joint blackish. Anten- 

 nae whitish, ringed with grey. Thorax shining coppery-bronze. Abdomen 

 dark grey, beneath yellow- whitish. Legs whitish (anterior pair broken), 

 middle femora and tibiae reddish-coppery, redder beneath, posterior tibiae in- 

 fuscated above. Forewings very narrowly elongate, gradually narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, pointed, apex acute ; coppery-reddish, with dark fuscous strigulae 

 suffused with deep shining blue ; a broad bright brassy-yellow costal streak 

 from near base to apex, covering rather more than half the wing : cilia grey, 

 beneath apex reddish towards base, on costa pale yellow. Hindwings and cilia 

 rather dark grey. 



Khasi Hills, in June ; one specimen. 



Gracilaria zachrysa, Meyr. 



(Gracilaria zachrysa, Meyr., Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc XVII. 983.) 



Also in November. 



Gracilaria euryptera, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head violet-fuscous, face and forehead pale yellowish. Palpi 

 moderate, light yellowish. Antennae dark grey, ringed with whitish. Thorax 

 dark violet-fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, beneath light yellow. Legs pale 

 yellowish, anterior and middle femora and tibiae and apical half of posterior 

 femora dark violet-fuscous, posterior tibiae suffused with violet fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, moderately pointed ; deep fuscous-purple ; a broad 

 triangular yellow patch extending over central third of costa, its apex 

 reaching dorsum : cilia fuscous, round apex irrorated with blackish towards 

 tips. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Pattipola, Ceylon, in May (Alston) ; one specimen. Broader-winged than any 

 species of the genus known to me ; the wings are relatively twice as broad as 

 in G. theivora, its nearest ally. 



Gracilaria theivora, Wals. 



(Gracilaria theivora, Wals., Ind. Mus. Not. ii, 49.) 



Maskeliya and Madulsima, Ceylon, from April to January, common (Pole, 

 Green). 



