INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 811 



Lithocolletis triarcha, n. sp. 



9 . 5 ram. Head bronzy-ochreous mixed with white, face white. Palpi 

 white ; maxillary palpi minute, distinct, porrected. Antennae whitish spotted 

 with dark grey. Thorax bronzy-ochreous, with a rather broad white median 

 transverse bar. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish-ochreous. Legs white, banded 

 with dark fuscous irroratiou. Forewings lanceolate ; bronzy-ochreous ; an 

 extremely short white median basal streak, edged with black beneath, three 

 narrow rather inwards-oblique white fascias, finely edged with black irroration 

 anteriorly, and with a few black scales in disc posteriorly, very slightly angulated 

 near costa ; from third fascia above middle proceeds a fine white downwards- 

 curved streak to costa just before apex, edged beneath with black irroration : 

 cilia bronzy-ochreous, above apex with a white patch, on upper part of termen 

 irrorated with black towards base, towards tornus pale grey. Hindwings pale 

 grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Pusa, Bengal ; one specimen, bred in August, from cotton (Gossypium) 

 (Maxwell Lefroy.) 

 Epicephala, Meyr. 



The rough head is not always a well-marked character, the hairs of the crown 

 being sometimes loosely appressed. The straight palpi are a good character, in 

 all species except fiagellata, in which they are somewhat curved. The species 

 are closely allied and often similar. 

 Epicephala ch> lybacnia, n. sp. 



$. 9 mm. Head ochreous-whitish mixed with grey. Palpi whitish, second 

 joint externally with a dark fuscous median longitudinal line. Antennae 

 whitish-grey. Thorax grey. Abdomen dark grey, beneath ochreous-whitish 

 with lateral series of oblique dark fuscous lines. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior and middle pairs longitudinally lined with blackish, posterior tarsi 

 obliquely banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrowly elongate, short- 

 pointed, apex obtuse ; grey, veins more or less distinctly marked with fine black 

 sines ; two indistinct oblique lines of dark fuscous scales from costa at A and f 

 and a slender very oblique streak from tornus indicated by blackish margins : 

 a rather oblique transverse bluish-silvery-metallic line near before apex, edged 

 with dark fuscous ; blackish anteapical and apical spots on costa beyond this : 

 cilia dark grey, round apex whitish with two black lines, inner metallic-bluish 

 at apex. Hindwings dark f ascous ; cilia dark grey. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, in Ssptember (Green) ; one specimen. 



Epicephala exetasiis, n. sp. 



ft. 14 mm. Head whi ish. Palpi whitish, mixed with dark fuscous exter- 

 nally. Antennae grey. Thorax whitish, sides fuscous. Abdomen grey, apex 

 whitish-ochreous, beneath whitish with oblique dark fuscous rings. Legs 

 whitish, ringed with blackish -grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate, moder- 

 ately pointed, apex round-pointed ; light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous ; a 

 slender whitish streak along dorsum from base to tornus ; an oblique whitish 

 streak from beyond middle of this, and two parallel oblique whitish streak 



