18 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEEV. 



spicuous cloudy dark fuscous spot in disc at | ; two or three snin]l 

 black dots transversol)' placed near lower part of termen : cilia 

 varying from whity-brownish to ocbroous-brown, Hindwino;s with 

 3 and 4 connate ; grey ; cilia grey-whitish with grey suhbasal 

 shade ; in c? on lower surface a tbick black streak above subbasal 

 fold from near base to beyond its middle. 



Assam, Khasis ; Bengal, Pusa ; S. India, Coimbatore ; bred in 

 October and from January to March from larvio feeding in flowers 

 or pods of Cujanus indicics and Phaseolus munr/o (Ler/uminosce) 

 (^Fletcher) ; six specimens. Two damaged 2 specimens from Java 

 are also probably referable to the same species. 



Eucosma clepsidoma, n. sp. 



2 . 8 mm. Head grey, suffused with wliitish. Palpi whitish, 

 tinged with grey towards apex. Tborax and abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, somewhat oblique ; 

 grey, somewhat mixed with dark fuscous and sprinkled with whitish 

 points ; dorsal half suffused with ochreous-grey-whitish on basal f, 

 appearing to form two confluent blotches, posterior subtriangular ; 

 costa on posterior -| with short darker strigulae, from which rise 

 several short indistinct oblique leaden lines ; a thick erect leaden- 

 metallic streak from tornus reaching half across wing, beyond 

 which is an irregular transverse series of about five linear black 

 dots or marks on median third of wing ; apex tinged with ochreous, 

 with an indistinct whitish praeapieal mark on costa : cilia grey 

 with rows of whitish points, and dark leaden-grey patches at and 

 beneath apex. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey, paler and 

 thinly scaled on basal half, suflused with dark fuscous on veins 

 posteriorly and towards termen : cilia pale greyish, with dark 

 fuscous subbasal line. 



S. India, Coimbatore, bred in April from galls on an unidentified 

 plant {Fletcher') ; one specimen. 



Eucosma balanoptycha Meyr. 



S. India, Coimbatore, bred in October from larvae feeding on 

 leaves of Pongamia glabra (Leguminosce) (FletcJier). 



Eucosma zelota, n. sp. 



5 . 14 mm. Head and thorax brown. Abdomen greyish. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique ; reddish-ochreous- 

 brown ; a moderately broad rather curved whitish fascia from i of 

 costa to beyond middle of dorsum, rather suffused posteriorly ; a 

 thick whitish mark along lower part of termen, containing two 

 elongate black dots. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; light grey; 

 cilia pale grey. 



Punjab, Abbottabad, in May (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



