BY E. MEYRICK, 285 



40. Drachmobola Meyr. 



Drachmohola Meyr., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



xvii., 978(1907) ... ... ... ... t-^^e periaslra. 



AntennpB in ^ shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrectecl, 

 second joint with rough projecting .scales beneath, terminal 

 moderate or rather long. Forewings with small tufts of scales 

 on surface; 3 from angle, 7 to termen, 8 and 9 out of 7. Hind- 

 wings with 3 and 4 connate or short-stalked, 5 approximated, 6 

 and 7 stalked. 



Belongs to the group of Spatolistis and Argyrotoxa, in which 

 it is immediately distinguished by the neuration. The only 

 described species is from India. 



276. D. sti'igulata, n.sp. 



^.9-10 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face whitish. Palpi 

 white, second and terminal joints with faint grey subapical bands, 

 terminal joint rather long. Antennal ciliations minute. Thorax 

 whitish, indistinctly spotted with brownish. Abdomen grev. 

 Forewings elongate, hardly dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique; whitish- 

 ochreous tinged with brownish, strewn with brown or dark 

 fuscous strigulse; costa strigulated with blackish; basal patch, 

 costal portion of central fascia, and sometimes a narrow terminal 

 fascia more or less spotted with brownish suffusion; about twenty 

 small round silvery-leaden-metallic spots, arranged principally 

 in transverse rows on these markings and along dorsum and- 

 termen : cilia whitish-ochreous, barred with brownish and with 

 a dark fuscous subba.sal line except on a clear patch on upper 

 half of termen. Hindwitigs whitish-ochreous strigulated with 

 fuscous, towards costa suffused with grey, on low^er part of 

 termen with several small leaden-metallic spots; cilia pale greyish- 

 yellowish, with interrupted dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



Q.: Cairns(Dodd), in August and November, two specimens. 



277. D. ijjnitis, n.sp. 

 2. 13-14 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with pale ochreous 

 and dark fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous sufi'usedly irrorated with 



