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Litliocolletis iteina, n. sp. 



J . 8 mm. Head white, tuft greyish-oehrcous. Palpi wliitc. 

 Tliorax light greyish-ochieous, suft'iised whitish on sides of hack, 

 patagia {errugiiious-ochreous. Al)d()iiieii grey, anal tuft whitish. 

 Forewiiigs elongate ; rather deep brown, with golden reflections ; 

 a suffused whitish line along told from base to beyond middle or 

 throughout; extreme costal edge blackish towards base; fine 

 oblique strigte of blacldsh irroration from middle of costa and 

 middle of dorsum, reaching ^ across wing, costal more or less edged 

 whitish suffusion posteriorly ; a similar oblique striga in disc 

 beyond middle, almost forming a continuation of dorsal one ; some 

 scattered blackish scales on dorsal edge before tornus ; an apical 

 elongate spot of black irroration : cilia light greyish, round apex 

 brown within a black median line. Hindwings and cilia grey, 



Bengal, Pusa, bred in Marct from larvae mining blotches on 

 underside of leaves of Salix {Fletcher) ; two specimens. Probably 

 allied to corylifoliella. 



Epicephala strepsiploca, n. sp. 



S . 8 mm. Head, thorax white, a dark fuscous mark on 

 shoulder. (Pjiljji broken.) i\l)domen light grey. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; fuscous mixed dark fuscous ; a white 

 streak occupying dorsal area up to fold but tinged fuscous 

 posteriorly, ujjper edge excavated by irregular dark fuscous dots at 

 4 and | of wing and edged by a dark fuscous dash on fold beyond 

 middle ; a whitish subcostal line from 4 to |, thence very oblique to 

 disc at 4; an obscure cloudy whitish oblique mark in disc at 4 ; a 

 very oblique white striga from 4 of costa and one from tornus 

 op])osite, not meeting; a silvery-white dot on costa before apex: 

 cilia whitish, round afiex with two daik grey lines, within first 

 fuscous cut by a fine white bar on pra)apical dot, beneath tornus 

 greyish-tinged. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



EoMBAr, Delgaum, October {Maa.nvell) ; one specimen. 



Epicephala ancylopa, n. sp. 



S $. 12-13 mm. Head white. Palpi slender, light grey, tip 

 white. Thorax light fuscous mixed white. Abdomen grey-whitish. 

 Forewings narrow-elongate, shoit-pointed ; light fuscous, more or 

 less tinged whitish and sprinkled dark fuscous; irregular very 

 oblique white streaks from costa at -i- and |, reaching half across 

 wing, edged dark fuscous suffusion ; a narrow white dorsal streak 

 from base to tornus, somewhat expanded near base, giving rise to 

 obli()ue white streaks at middle and before tornus, not reachino- 

 half across wing; oblique white strigae from costa at | and tonins 

 opposite, more or less developed, sometimes meeting; a fine whitish 

 dark-edged transverse line towards apex ; a small round cloudy 

 blackish spot before apex beyond this, with a short white maik 

 above it and a more elongate one beneath ; cilia whitish-grey, round 



