30 EXOTIC .MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



CAHPOSINID.^. 



Meridarchis scyrodes, n. sp. 



cJ 14 mm., 5 17 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, 

 sprinkled and suffuse lly mixed witli whitish. Palpi iu iS 2, in 

 2 ;V|, dark fuscous, upper portion suffused with whitish. Abdomen 

 whitish sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, terraen hardly 

 sinuate, oblique ; liglit brownish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled 

 with blackish and whitish ; a small brownish basal patch sprinkled 

 with blackish, edge oblique, parallel to termen, with three raised 

 tufts ; six small elongate blackish spots on costa between this and 

 apex ; a triangular patch of ochreous brown suffusion irrorated 

 with blackish in disc beyond middle, laterally edged with white ; 

 beyond this an irregular patch of white irroration ; several blackish 

 dots on termen : cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, basal half very 

 obscurely darker-barred. Hindwings light grey, veins darker ; 

 cilia pale grey. 



S. India, Coimbatore, bred in February from larvae feeding in 

 fruits of Zizjiphus jujuha (Ilh((mnace'.e) (Fletcher) ; two specimens. 



COSMOPTERYGID.E. 



Batrachedra amydraula, n. sp. 



c? 2. 11-14 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous 

 tinged with grey. Palpi whitish more or less tinged with grey, 

 with indistinct greyish rings beneath apex of second joint and at 

 base of terminal, scales of second joint roughly projecting beneath 

 towards apex, terminal joint as long as second. Forewings narrow- 

 lanceolate; whitish-ochreous finely irrorated with fuscous; an 

 indistinct clear whitish-ochreous median longitudinal streak from 

 base to apex ; plical and second discal stigmata very small, indis- 

 tinct, dark fuscous, plical beneath lower margin of streak, second 

 discal within it ; some dark fuscous scales on margins towards and 

 at apex indicating indistinct dots : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hind- 

 wings light grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



Bengal, Pusa, in November and March {Fletclier) ; three 

 specimens. 



Batraclxedra arenosella Walk. 



I now regard psilopa Meyr. as being only a small geographical 

 form of this si)ecies, which I find to be very widely distributed. 

 The dark markings of antenna? consist of a band just beneath apex, 

 nearly followed by a ring and then by two more bands, but the 

 upper of these two latter is sometimes represented by two separate 

 rings ; the same markings and the same variation are found in 



