INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 587 



Lipoptycha ochropa n. sp. 



ft. 8-9 mm. Head, antenna?, and thorax pale fuscous, face whitish- ochreous. 

 Palpi ochreous-whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings moderately elongate, 

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

 sinuate beneath apex, rather obliquely rounded, light fuscous, obscurely striated 

 with dark fuscous, stria? rectangularly bent in middle, alternate dark stria?, 

 purplish-leaden on costal half ; costa strigulated with whitish ; towards middle 

 of dorsum four of the alternating stria? of ground colour becoming more whitish 

 very obscurely indicate a dorsal blotch ; four black dots before lower portion of 

 termen ; cilia whitish; fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal line becoming sharper 

 and blackish round apex. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia whitish, with 

 dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Three specimens taken by myself at Kandy, Ceylon, in December. 



Eucelis Hb. 



I agree with Lord Walsingham that this name should be adopted for the 

 genus standing in my Handbook as Epinotia. 



Eucelis critica n. sp. 



ft. 12-14 mm. Head and thorax grey, slightly ochreous-tinged, shoulders 

 mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique, rounded beneath; 

 olive-fuscous, posteriorly whitish-tinged, with scattered blackish-fuscous, 

 strigula? ; costa strigulated throughout with blackish-fuscous, posteriorly with 

 whitish interspaces ; angulated outer edge of basal patch indicated by dark 

 fuscous suffusion ; central fascia suffused, dark fuscous, narrow on costa, broad 

 and ill-defined in disc, obsolete towards dorsum ; veins posteriorly lined with 

 dark fuscous, and a longitudinal patch of dark fuscous suffusion between 

 central fascia and termen above middle ; a silvery-metallic transverse mark 

 before middle of termen, preceded by four elongate black dots ; apex blackish, 

 edged beneath by a curved whitish strigula : cilia pale fuscous, more or less 

 irrorated with whitish, towards apex suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey sub- 

 basal shade, dorsum with fringe of long blackish hairs. 



Two specimens, Surat, Bombay, in October (Maxwell-Lefroy). Larva feeds 

 in spun-up shoots of Cajanus indicus (Maxwell-Lefroy). 



TORTEICIOE. 



Eboda Walk. 



Antenna? in ft moderately ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected or ascending. 

 Thorax without crest. Forewings without cost;:l foM ; 3 and 4 stalked, 7 to 

 termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Apparently related to Oxygraplia, but easily distinguished by the different 

 neuration. 



Eboda smaragdinana Walk. 



{Eboda smaragdinana Walk. Cat. Suppl. 1805.) 



ft ?. 14-18 mm. Head and thorax green. Palpi white, spotted with olive- 

 green. Abdomen dark-grey. Forewings suboblong, costa abruptly arched and 



