INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 585 



Five specimens, Maskeliya, Yatiyantota, and Peradeniya, Ceylon, in February, 

 March, July, September, and November (Green, Pole). 



Platypeplus phyllochlora n. sp. 



$. 15 — 17 ram. Head, palpi, and thorax dull green. Antennas grey. 

 Abdomen dark grey, with long lateral hair pencils on each side from near base. 

 Brush of posterior tibiae black on inner side. Forewings rather elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, 

 hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; rather light green ; costa strigulated with 

 black and whitish ; basal third more or less strigulated with blackish ; central 

 fascia deeper green, more or less mixed with black, narrowest on costa, 

 anterior edge undefined, posterior well marked, somewhat irregular, partially 

 edged with white ; a dark fuscous blotch, angular and edged with white above, 

 roundish beneath, before middle of termen, between this and central fascia a 

 short curved transverse dark fuscous mark ; suffused white strigae above this, 

 connecting with costal strigulse ; tornal space more or less sprinkled with 

 blackisb and whitish ; cilia dark grey, with two or three whitish ochreoua bars 

 beneath apex, towards tornus whitish. Hindwings with subdorsal groove and 

 hair pencil ; dark fuscous ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal shade. 



Three specimens, Peradeniya, Kandy, and Haragam, Ceylon, in July and 

 August (Green). 



Platypeplus creserias n. sp. 



<J. 17 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, mixed with whitish ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous white, dark fuscous, above except towards apex. Antennas pale 

 fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa rather strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, little 

 oblique, rounded beneath ; fuscous, densely and suffusedly strigulated 

 throughout with whitish-ochreous, with some scattered dark olive-green scales ; 

 costa dark fuscous, with pairs of ochreous-whitish strigulas terminated by short 

 leaden streaks, beneath costa some reddish-ochreous suffusion ; basal patch 

 indicated on dorsal § by dark fuscous intermixture, outer edge bent in middle ;" 

 a small brown spot on middle of costa ; a triangular darker fuscous pragtornal 

 spot, sprinkled with ochreous-whitish ; a triangular pinkish fuscous apical 

 patch, streaked with dark olive-green ; cilia grey, mixed with ferruginous 

 and dark fuscous, above tornus with a patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with darker subbasal line. 



One specimen, Haragam, Ceylon, in July (Green). 



Platypeplus threnodes n. sp. 



$. 28 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark ashy-fuscous, palpi with ochreous 

 spots beneath apex of second and on terminal joint. Antennae grey. Abdomen 

 rather dark fuscous, apex of anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, posterior- 

 ly rather dilated, costa moderately arched apex rounded, termen almost 

 straight, little oblique, rounded beneath ; blackish-fuscous, closely and 

 suffusedly strigulated with shining purplish-leaden, less so towards costa ; a 

 small roundish blackish spot in disc at §, and another above tornus ; cilia 



