f,OS THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



leaves of plants, between united twigs, in seeds and flowers of low plants, between 

 the terminal leaves of plants, mining leaves, or on lichen and moss." — {Stauitun.) 



Genus DEPRESSARIA. 



Depressaria, Haworth, Li^i. Brit. p. 505 (1812) ; Cm-tis, Brit. Eut. fol. 221 (1828) ; Stephens, Illust. 

 Haust. iv., p. 197 (1831); Zeller, Isis (1839), p. 195. 



DEPRESSARIA ANGUSTA, Walsingham (Plate 209, Fig. 5). 



Head pale ochreous, roughly clothed above with a few fuscous scales inter- 

 mixed, the face very pale ochreous; palpi pale ochreous, touched with fuscous 

 towards the end of the apical joint, which is slightly thickened with coarse scales 

 about its middle ; antennte dull cinereous ; thorax pale ochreous, mixed with urabre 

 scales. Forewings very narrow, pale ochreous, with several groups of raised dark 

 umbre scales, one at the base, two before the middle, of which one is above and the 

 other beneath the fold, two beyond the middle about the end of the discal cell and im- 

 mediately adjacent to each other ; above these is a deep fuscous shade on the costa, 

 followed by a still more conspicuous one at the apex ; around the apical margin, 

 reaching within the anal angle, is a series of six or seven dark fuscous, elongate dots ; 

 around the raised patches of scales and about the costa above the first pair, is 

 some feruginous shading ; a considerable portion of the ground colour of the wing- 

 being thickly clouded with umbre brown ; fringes the same as the ground colour. 

 Hiudwings pale cinereous. Abdomen scarcely darker. 



Expanse of wings 14| mms. 



Ceylon. 



Genus GELECHIA. 

 Gtlechia, Zoller, Isis (1839), p. 197. Staiutou, lus. Brit. Tiuoina, p. 101 (1S54). 



GELECHIA SIGNIFERA. 



Geh'chid signifera, Felderet Rogen. Novara Voy. Lep. v. pi. 139 f. 23 (1875). 



Female. Pale ochreous. Forewing with a black interrupted longitudinal 

 medial streak, above which are two black cell spots, one before the othei-, the inner 

 spot minute : hind wing paler. Middle of the thorax black. 



Evpause A inch. 



Ceylon. 



GELECHIA OBLIGATELLA. 



Gelechia oUUjateUa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxx p. 1023 (1864). 



" Female. Brownish-cinereous. Forewings rather narrow, rounded at the tips ; 

 with two very large cupreous-brown spots ; first spot interior, nearly triangular, 

 resting on the interior border, not extending to the costa, second spot exterior, 



