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apex beneath this whitisli-suffused : cilia white, slightly grey- 

 sprinkled, towards tornus grey. Hiudwings 1, terinen slightly 

 sinuate ; rather dark grey, lighter anteriorly ; cilia grey. 



BiiiTisH Guiana, Bartica, Mallali, February, March (Parish)', 

 three specimens. Seemingly related to the European notatella. 



Phthorimaea ocellatella, Boyd. 



I have a good and characteristic example taken by myself in 

 January at Gallo, Ceylon, the most easterly record of the species. 



Phthorimaea ergasima Meyr. 



Larva green, head and plate of 2 purplish ; mines a blotch in 

 leaves of Solaimm melongeaa {Fletcher). 



Phthorimaea mixolitha, n. sp. 



(S . 10 mm. Head whitish, crown tinged ochreous and sprinkled 

 dark grey. Palpi whitish, rough scales of second joint long, 

 subapical ring of second joint and subbasal hand of terminal 

 irrorated blackish. Thorax whitisli sprinkled dark grey. Abdomen 

 whitish mixed dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, apex tolerably pointed, termeu extremely obliquely 

 rounded ; white s])rinkled and irregularly blotched dark grey, 

 especially posteriorly ; a distinct elongate dark grey spot on costa 

 before I ; suffused dark fuscous spots on fold at ^ and ^ of wing ; 

 discal stigmata cloudy, blackish, first in middle, with a yellow- 

 ochreous spot adjacent beneath ; grey tornal area ochreous-tinged : 

 cilia white, several indistinct grey lines, towards base some blackish 

 specks. Hiudwings light grey; cilia grey-whitish. 



Bengal, Pusa, June {Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Phthorimaea atalopis, n. sp. 



(S 2 • 8-9 mm. Head, thorax whitish somewhat sprinkled grey. 

 Palpi whitish, second joint dark grey except apex, basal and sub- 

 apical rings of terminal dark grey. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings elongate-lanceolate; 7 and 8 out of 6; whitish-ochreous, 

 more or less irrorated irregularly dark grey, variably and obscurely 

 spotted or streaked yollow-ochreous suffusion ; stigmata cloudy, 

 blackish, surrounded pale or ochreous, plical beneath first discal, 

 first discal sometimes obsolete, second placed towards dorsum : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, some dark grey specks. Hiudwings pale 

 grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 



Ceylon, Puttalam, August, October {Pole); Kanaka, Dharwar, 

 June {Maxwell); Bukma, Koni {Manders); six specimens. The 

 neuration is exceptional, but otherwise the species accords well, 

 and a new genus seems at present unnecessarj-. 



Phthorimaea suasoria, n. sp. 



5 . 10 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second and terminal 

 joints each with two rings of blackish irroration. Thorax whitish, 



