TORTPdCIDyE. 495 



Genus GRAPHOLITHA. 



GraphoUtha, Treitschkc, Eur. Schmett. vii. 232 (1829). 



GRAPHOLITHA OBTUSANA. 



GraphoUtha obtmana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xxviii. p. 388 (1863). 



" Female. Fawn-colour, mostly cinereous beneath, Forewing with a brownish 

 discal spot, and a brownish oblique exterior band, beyond which there are some black 

 points in the fore part of the disc ; a slender whitish sub marginal line ; costa with 

 oblique brown and whitish streaklets. Second joint of palpi with a short thick 

 fringe above. 



Expanse 6 lines." 



Ceylon. 



GRAPHOLITHA CONFERTANA 



GraphoUtha confertana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 388 (1863). 



" Female. Brown, with a cinereous tinge beneath : forewings with many 

 transverse cinereous lines, of which those on the basal half are bent, and those on the 

 exterior part are very irregular ; a fawn-coloured patch near the tip of the costa, and 

 another on the hind part of the exterior border ; costa with oblique whitish streaklets. 

 Palpi with two whitish bands. 



Expanse 6 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus PLATYPEPLUS, Walsingham. 



Head coarsely scaled. Antennte about half the length of the forewings. Palpi 

 short, slightly recurved, brush-like beneath, the apical joint small, obtuse. Thorax 

 tufted posteriorly. Forewings elongate, with the costa and apical margins convex, 

 the dorsal margin straight, but angulated near tlie base. Hindwings triangular, the 

 abdominal margin much dilated, with a narrow pit-like recess extending two-thirds 

 from the base towards the abdominal angle; this structure apparently correspondino- 

 to the free lobe in the genus Eccopsis, Zeller, but attached to the wing throuo-hout. 

 Neuration as in Eccopsis. 



This genus differs from Carpocapsa in the approximation of the middle vein of 

 the hindwings to the base of vein 4, resembling in this respect the genus Eccopsis, to 

 which it is very nearly allied. 



PLATYPEPLUS APROBOLA (Plate 208, Fig. 2). 

 Eccopsis aprobola, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1886, p. 275. 



Head cinereous, with some brownish scales ; palpi cinereous, tinged with brown 

 externally ; thorax greyish, mottled and tufted with brown posteriorly. Forewino-s 

 densely and intricately mottled with steel-grey and brown, a whitish space extendino- 

 from the base along the fold is merged in a pale cinereous patch on the middle of the 



