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other species of the genus, as for example in praennc/usta. Tlie 

 head is sometimes ochreous-wldte. 



Ceylon, Masskeliya {Pole); Mysore, Bangalore [3Ict,vwell-Lefroi/) ; 

 CooRG, Dibidi (Newcome) • Bengal, Calcutta {Annandale) ; Assam, 

 Khasis ; Eritish Guiana, Bartica {Parish), from which locality I 

 have thirty specimens in very good condition, unquestionably 

 identical with the rest ; I have recorded the species also from 

 Australia and New Zealand ; the larva feeds on the seeds of 

 Juncus. It is very improbable that this species should liave been 

 transported by human agency, and I am inclined to believe that its 

 wide range is natural. 



Batrachedra praeangiista Haw. 



I have a long series of good specimens from Toronto, Canada, 

 which agree fully with Zcller's description of striolata, but I am 

 also unable to separate them specifically from the European p?-rt^- 

 angusta. In jjvaeangusta the elongate black plical and second 

 discal stigmata are often more strongly edged with white, and 

 these edgings and other pale portions of the disc are often distinctly 

 tinged with ochreous, which is not the case with any of the 

 American specimens, but both the European and American forms 

 exhibit considerable variation, and some examples from both 

 regions are quite indistinguishable. I therefore regard striolata as 

 a synonym of praeanynsta. 



Batrachedra conspersa, n. sp. 



S $ • 7-8 mm. Head and thorax grey-whitish. Palpi whitish, 

 second and terminal joints each with two dark fuscous bands, 

 scales of second joint hardly projecting, terminal joint as long as 

 second. Antenna; with apical portion white with three dark grey 

 bands and a ring between two uppermost. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Eorewings extremely narrow, moderately pointed; pale ochreous, 

 thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous specks ; a streak of denser dark 

 fuscous irroration along costa throughout ; a fuscous streak along 

 dorsum from base to tornus, reaching to fold ; plical stigma large, 

 elongate, black, resting on upper edge of this ; indistinct dark 

 fuscous marginal dots on veins towards apex : cilia grey. Hind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June {Parish) ; five specimeus. 



Batrachedra violenta, n. sp. 



cJ . 7 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, irregularly mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi slender, whitish, with subapical ring of 

 second joint and two rings of terminal blackish. Apical half of 

 antenna? whitish with three rather narrow remote dark fuscous 

 bands. Abdomen grey. Anterior tibiae white with anterior edge 

 black, tarsi short, white, with three black rings. Forewings very 

 narrowly lanceolate ; rather deep yellow-ochreous ; markings 

 formed of dense black irroration somcwliat suffused with grey ; an 



