DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOrTERA. 587 



costal edge dark fuscous, marked throughout with rather h>iig oblique ochreous- 

 whitish strigula3 more or less suflused with leaden-grey ; an ochreons-whitish 

 streak above middle from base to apex usually very incompletely defined, and 

 cut posteriorly by dark lines on veins, margined beneath by a very broad 

 dark fuscous suffused streak extending from base to f^, with a while dot on 

 transvei-se vein cutting upper edge of this suffusion, and a wedgeshaped mark 

 of dark fuscous suffusion at apex ; veins beyond cell marked with streaks of 

 dark fuscous suffusion ; dorsum dotted with dark fuscous suffusion ; cilia 

 fuscous, with rows of whitish and dark fuscous points. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia whitish, 



Xawalapita, Ceylon, in January (Pole) ; Gooty (Campbell) ; Coorg, 3,500 feet, 

 in October (Newcome) ; four specimens. The only species which has the 

 termen of forewings rounded in ^ , in all the rest it is straight or sinuate. 



Poli/chrosis, Rag. 



This is the genus hitherto passing as Chrosis, Gn. It dift'ers from Bactra by 

 the crested thorax, from ProscliisUs by and 7 of hindwings being connate or 

 stalked, from Argyroploce by the separation of 3 and 4 of hindwings, I have 

 desciibed one species, ejjhippias, and now give four more. 



Polychrosls cerata, n. sp. 



$ 9- 10-12 mm. Head and thoi-ax pale yellow-ochreous. Palpi with long 

 rough spreading scales, pale ochreous, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 towards base. Abdomen rather dark grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen little 

 rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous, with purplish-leaden reflections, 

 with the base of all scales fuscous-whitish, forming fine transverse stride ; costa 

 with about six oblique blackish fuscous strigulaaa, and sometimes mixed with 

 yellowish between these ; base sometimes mixed with ochreous-yellowish ; large 

 oblique irregular ochreous-yellow blotches from dorsum about ^ and beyond 

 middle, reaching half across wing , sometimes united with smaller less developed 

 or nearly obsolete blotches from costa to form angulated fasciae ; an angulated 

 bluish-leaden striga from i of costa to tornus, its margins sometimes more or 

 less marked with ferruginous-yellowish : cilia fuscous mixed with dark fuscous 

 and sprinkled with fuscous-whitish with a dark fuscous subbasal line. Hind- 

 wings fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, with a dark fuscous subbasal line, 



Diyatalawa, Ceylon (Fletcher) ; Khasis, in August ; nine specimens. 



Polychrosis fallax, n. sp. 



^9- lo-l7 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second joint 

 with three small dark fuscous spots externally on upper margin, and one on 

 lower margin near apex. Thorax pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly spotted 

 with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, pos- 

 teriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, little 

 oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, with scattered strigulae of ochreous and 

 blackish irroration ; basal patch mixed with ochreous and blackish, ill-defined, 

 edge irregular ; space between this and central fascia with one or two irregular 



