38 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



times with a longitudinal streak of dark grej^ suffusion ; a minute 

 •wliite apical dot or strigula : cilia orange, towards tornus ochreous- 

 Avliitish tinged with gre3^ Ilindwings grey; cilia pale grey. 



Ckylon, IMaskeliya and Galle, in Juno [Pole, F/etcJier) ; three 

 specimens. 



Pyroderces redimita, n. sp. 



cJ . 8 mm. Head silvery-whitish-grey. Palpi whitish, an- 

 terior edge of terminal joint grey. Thorax dark grey. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings lanceolate, apex somewhat produced ; dark grey ; 

 a short whitish mark from base beneath costa ; a very oblique 

 whitish w^edge-shaped streak from costa at ^, reaching i across 

 wing ; a whitish subdorsal streak from base to ^ of wing ; some 

 irregular confused whitish marking on median area, including a 

 wedgeshaped streak from costa before middle ; a spot of yellow- 

 ochrcous BufFusion on costa at |, edged on each side by a small 

 whitish spot; apical area mixed with blackish, Avith two or three 

 Avhite specks : cilia whitish, round apex yellow-ochreous within a 

 blackish median shade, beneath toruus tinged with grey. Hind- 

 wings light grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



CooKQ, Dibidi, 3500 feet, in September (Keu'come); one speci- 

 men. 



Pyroderces faceta, n. sp. 



c? 2 • ^~^ ™™- Head and thorax dark greyish-bronze. 

 Palpi blackish lined with white. Abdomen dark grey. Fore- 

 wings lanceolate ; dark bronzy-fuscous ; markings violet-silvery- 

 metallic ; a somewhat irregular transverse streak before ^, some- 

 times interrupted ; an irregular transverse median line, more 

 or less interrupted or broken up in disc; a dot in disc at | ; a 

 transverse costal mark at |-, and a dot on tornus opposite ; two or 

 three silvery scales at apex : cilia grey, at apex dark fuscous with 

 a white patch on apical half. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Bengal, Pusa {Fletcher); Cookg, Dibidi, 3500 feet (Newcome) ; 

 Ceylon, ^latale, Haputale {Pole, Alston) ; from June to August and 

 in I^ovember ; ten specimens, 



Pyroderces callistrepta, n. sp. 



^ 5 • 9-11 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous. Palpi 

 black, second joint irregularly marked with white, terminal joint 

 lined with white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed; dark fuscous; markings snow-white; a very 

 short basal dash on fold, its basal end carried up to costa ; three 

 transverse lines, first about ^, straight, hardly oblique, second 

 median, similar but more or less irregularly thickened on upper 

 portion, third at ^, slender, rather incurved and slightly inwards- 

 obli<}ue from costa ; an apical dot : cilia grey, base mixed with 

 dark fuscous, with white dots on extremities of third Hue. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia light grey.> 



