GELECHIIDJE. 519 



apical portion of the Aviiig is docp brown, illiiniinat(>(l h\ one snbcostal and three siib- 

 apical metallic blue spots; frino-es sliinino- iridescent steel-grey. Hindwings and 

 fringes brown. Legs bi'own, with pale si)ots at the tarsal joints. 



Expanse of wings 10 mms. 



Ceylon. 



This species appears to agree with the X. American genus StroLLsia. The 

 only difference noticeable being that the Cingalese form has the apical margin of the 

 forewings slightly indented below the apex instead of being almost convex. 



Genus CRYPTOLECHIA. 



Criiptolerliia, Zeller (IlaiuUiiigar Kong. Svfiisk. Vetens. Akad., lS.")-2, p. 106). 



CRYPTOLECHIA SPILOTELLA. 

 Cryptolt'dila spilotclla, Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xxix. p. 746 (1804). 

 " Male. Brown. Wings broad, witli a yellowish marginal line : forewings slightly 

 rounded at the tips ; with two deep black patches in the disc ; first patch near the 

 base, larger than the second, which is transverse and beyond the middle; exterior 

 border straight, hardly oblique : hindwings brownish-cinereous. Second joint of the 

 palpi squamous ; antennas setulose ; abdomen extending rather beyond the hindwings, 

 hind borders of the segments cinereous, apical tuft quadrate ; legs squamous, rather 

 long and stout. 



Expanse 12 lines." 



Ceylon. 



CRYPTOLECHIA INTERMEDIA. 



Cri/ptolechiu iiiterinedia, Feldei- et Eogen. Novara Voy. Lep, v. pi. 139, fig. 13 (15*75) ^. 

 Forewing red, the veins along the costa with silvery tips : hindwing paler, with 

 the base dusky. Thorax red, abdomen paler. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 

 Ceylon. 



CaYPTOLECHIA DILUTICORNIS Walsiugham (Plate 209,Fig. 7). 



Head, brownish-grey, Avith a lilac tinge, subochreous at the sides ; palpi pale 

 ochreous, tinged -with brownish-grey externally on the second joint ; antennre very 

 pale ochreous. Thorax and forewings brownish-grey with a lilac tinge. Forewiucs 

 of the same colour throughout, with the exception of a few ochreous scales at the 

 extreme base below tlie costa, and three deep brown spots, the one adjacent to the 

 pale patch at the base, the second slightly above the middle of the wing about one- 

 third from the base, the third at the end of the discal cell, the latter being the most 

 conspicuous of the three. Hindwings and fringes pale cinereous. Abdomen cinereous ; 

 legs pale cinereous with an ochreous tinge. 



Expanse of wings 18 mms. 



Ceylon. 



