INDIAN MICHO-LEPIDOPTEKA. 625 



Oxygrapha curioxa, n. sp. 



9- 17 mm. Head pale grey sprinkled with darker and whitish. Palpi dark 

 grey irrorated with whitish. Thorax pale grey mixed with black, shoulders 

 brown. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings moderate, rather dilated posteriorly, 

 costa strongly arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, oblique ; rather dark 

 violet-grey, partially brownish-tinged and sprinkled with whitish, with some 

 irregularly arranged black raised scales ; several irregular black strigas from 

 costa about ^, and in disc in middle and at ^ ; large tufts of scales towards 

 dorsum before and beyond middle ; an irregular prismatic purple-blue blotch 

 beneath disc at § ; an 8-shaped tornal spot outlined with black, upper half filled 

 with brownish and lower with white ; an evenly broad ferruginous-brown 

 streak from beyond § of costa to below middle of termen, edged with some 

 black scales ; a ferruginous-brown streak along apical part of costa, posteriorly 

 triangularly dilated and edged on termen with blackish : cilia pale brownish with 

 dark brown antemedian shade, and posterior dark fuscous patches at apex, 

 middle, and tornus. Hindwings dark grey, lighter towards base : cilia whitish- 

 grey, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



Khasis, in October ; one specimen. 



Oxygrapha porpacias, u. sp. 



<J9- 16-20 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi whitish, irrorated with 

 grey and black except towards base. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, rather 

 oblique ; ochreous-whitish, finely and suftusedly irrorated with giey, and 

 strigulated with brown and dark grey, with a few black scales ; three black dots 

 longitudinally placed just above tornus, first usually minute, second elongate, 

 third terminal : cilia whitish with rows of fuscous points, basal half with 

 indistinct fuscous bars tipped with dark fuscous, a tornal patch mixed with dark 

 grey and blackish. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, darker posteriorly ; cilia 

 rather dark fuscous. 



Puttalam, Muskeliya, Peradeniya, and Gampola, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alston) : 

 Muoklek, Siam : in June and from October to February, nine specimens. 



Xyloryctim:. 



Metaihrinca, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts spreading ; ocelli present ; tongue 

 developed. Antenna? §, in $ bipectinated, apex simple. Labial palpi long, 

 lecurved, second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint rather shorter, 

 acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibia? clothed with long 

 hairs. Forewings with 2 from £ or angle, seldom stalked with 3, 4 absent, 5 

 approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 9 absent, 10 and 11 remote. Hind- 

 wings somewhat over 1, ovate, cilia | ; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated, 6 and 7 remote, diverging. 



Type M. ancistrias, Meyr. Formerly treated as a section of Ptoclioryctis, but 

 the discovery of a second species makes it desirable to give it generic rank. 



