EUCOSMIDiE. i / 



giiioiis, apical half very deep purple-blue. Abdomen dark gre)'. 

 Forewiiigs elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arcbed, termen 

 deeplj- elliptical-concave beneath strongly prominent obtuse-pointed 

 apex; brown with stiong violet iridescence; undefined darker 

 forrugiuous-brown sutFusion forming a rounded patch occupying 

 dorsal half from base to middle, and a longitudinal down-curved 

 patch in disc from before middle to near termen ; costa shortly 

 strigulated with dark fuscous, beyond middle with four short very 

 oblique violet-leaden lines obscurely whitish-edged on costa, beneatii 

 these a longitudinal blackish lino; a whitish mark on costa at 

 base of apical prominence and a whitish line on its lower margin, 

 these connected by a greyish strigula at base, sometimes sending 

 an indistinct flue grey-whitish line obliquely inwards, near before 

 this are sometimes two short blackish daslies ; edge of terminal 

 excavation and sometimes apex finely blackish : cilia brown. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 coincident; rather dark grey, veins dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, bred in January from larvaD feeding on spun 

 leaves of Zizyphus jujuha {Fletcher). The peculiarly coloured palpi 

 arc a special characteristic. 



Eucosma rliymogramma, u. sp. 



2 . 15 mm. Head and thorax greenish-grey. Palpi greyish, 

 with two oblique blackish marks towards base of second joint. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen concave, scarcely oblique; light 

 blue-grey, irregularly marked Avith pale greyish-oclireous, with a 

 few white scales; costa marked with small dark fuscous spots and 

 strigulfe, one before middle rather larger, beyond this five pairs of 

 short wliitish strigula? giving rise to four oblique blue lines and a 

 V-shaped mark, all separated with fulvous ; a moderate subtri- 

 angular black spot on dorsum at |, its apex produced into a short 

 curved hook ; a somewhat larger indistinct spot of grey suffusion 

 on dorsum before tornus : cilia blue-grey with rows of whitish 

 points, suffused with darker grey round apex, base spotted with 

 whitish beneath apex and above tornus. Hindwings with 3 and 4 

 stalked ; violet-subhyaline, tinged with grey, veins dark fuscous, 

 termen suffused with dark grey ; cilia pale grey. 



UrPBE BijE.via, Myitkyina, in August {Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Eucosma melanaula, n. sp. 



6 $• 17-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey more or less 

 tinged with ochreous, thorax sometimes light ochi'eous. Abdomen 

 rather dark grey, anal tuft in S pale ochreous. Forewings elon- 

 gate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique ; varying 

 from brownish-ochreous to rather dark brown, sometimes largely 

 irrorated with grey-whitish or sprinkled with dark fuscous or black 

 scales or indistinctly^ lined with dark fuscous on veins ; costa shortly 

 strigulated with dark fuscous ; sometimes (usually in (5 ) a cou- 



YOL. II. — October 191G. c 



