DESCIilPTIONS OF INDIAN MICIiO-LEPI DUrTEHA. (1()7 



■with black, sometimes lai'gely or wholly sutt'uscd with brown-reddish ; costa 

 black, obliquely strigulated with whitish . a roundish spot in disc before 

 middle, and a suffusion along costa from near base to near apex grey or fus- 

 cous, sometimes much mixed with blackish and extending over whole basal 

 area ; sometimes two or three fine leaden strigaa from costa, and a leaden streak 

 on posterior margin of ocelhis ; sometimes a fine black terminal line : cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous or whitish-ochreous, sometimes suffused with brown- 

 reddish. Hindwings fuscous, thinly scaled, posteriorly broadly suffused with 

 dark fuscous ; cilia grey-whitish, sometimes reddish-tinged round apex, with 

 blackish-grej' subbasal line. 



Khasis. from October to March ; twenty specimens, 



Eucosma, Hb. 



This name is now applied to the genus formerly called Epihlema, Hb. 



Eucosma ccriodes, n. sp. 



^ $. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous or ochreous-brownish, palpi ascend- 

 ing. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, rather oblique ; yellow-ochreous, variably 

 suffused with brownish or dark fuscous on costal half or sometimes wholly 

 (especially in 9) ; sometimes irrorated with black except towards dorsum ; costa 

 marked with pairs of whitish strigulae, whence proceed irregular bluish-leaden 

 transverse striiB, sometimes much marked with white on antemedian area, but 

 often more or less wholly obsolete : oscellus represented by a more or less defin- 

 ed irregular white streak from termen beneath apex to dorsum before tornus, 

 marked with four or five short black dashes, and followed by a thick leaden 

 metallic streak ; apex of wing ferruginous-ochreous : cilia ochreous, sometimes 

 with two or three grey lines, with a whitish tornal patch, and sometimes a whitish 

 subapical spot. Hindwings varying from greyish-ochreous to rather dark 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-ochreous or pale greyish-ochreous, sometimes with an 

 indistinct grey line. 



Khasis, from July to September ; ten specimens. Allied to ancyrota, Meyr., 

 but less narrow- winged. 



