DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 585 



ochreous. Hindwings in $ pale grey, in 9 wliitish ; cilia whitish in ^ with 

 faint grey subbasal line. 



Pnttalam, Ceylon, in February and August (Pole) ; four specimens. Recog- 

 nisable by the pale ochreous colouring, distinct deeper ochreous markings, 

 termen of forewings not sinuate, and white hindwings of 9 (>n S pa'cr grey 

 than usual) ; but I have another apparently distinct undescribed species, in 

 which the 9 l^as also white hindwings. 



Bactra honeata, n, sp. 



^ 9- 14- IG mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi 2, whitish, with broad 

 median fuscous band. Thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen greyish, Forewings 

 elongate, hardly dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex tolerably 

 pointed, termen i-ather sinuate, oblique ; pale ochreous, more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous-brownish, especially towards disc beyond middle, with a few 

 scattered dark fuscous scales ; costa marked with long oblique ochi-eous-whitish 

 strigula5 more or less tinged with leaden-grey, alternating with very slight short 

 strigulaj of black ii-roration ; between ^ and apex the whitish strigulai are 

 often continued across wing as well-marked angulated striae, leaving an angu- 

 lated basal patch and narrow irregular central facia of ground colour ; gener- 

 ally a more or less marked broad streak of blackish irroration in disc from base 

 to end of cell, sometimes well-defined above and continued to near apex ; often 

 a subcrescentic downwards-curved dark spot in disc at § ; space beyond cell 

 variably mixed with whitish suffusion and irrorated with dark fuscous, with 

 two distinct black interneural lines between veins 6-8, and indications of others, 

 especially often two short black marks between veins 3-5 : cilia pale brownish- 

 ochreous with rows of whitish points, sometimes somewhat sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous, at apex with a more or less marked dark ochreous-brown spot 

 marked with black, Hindwings grey, paler towards base : cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, with an indistinct grey subbasal line. 



Khasis, from June to September ; twenty specimens. Variable, but always 

 without definite white longitudinal streak, though the dark suffusion marking 

 its lower margin is often strongly expressed ; forewings more pointed than 

 usual, as in Metriacma, but termen less oblique than in that species, and palpi 

 much shorter, 



Baclra phenacistis, n. sp. 



<J9- 14-19 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, faintly brownish -tinged. Palpi 

 2^, whitish-ochreous, with a more or less wide oblique median bar of dark fus 

 cous suffusion. Thorax pale ochreous, sometimes brownish-tinged, with some 

 dots of dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen whitish fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; pale ochreous, more or less tinged or suffused 

 with ferruginous-brown, sometimes mixed or suffusedly strigulated with 

 whitish on dorsal half ; costa with about eight pairs of rather long oblique 

 silvery-whitish strigulaj more or less mixed with leaden-grey, alternating with 

 indistinct strigulse of blackish irroration ; a longitudinal whitish streak above 



