254 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Demobrotis petrologa, n. sp, 



J. mm. Head whit isli, face smoky-fusfous. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 apex of joints whitish. Thorax Avhilish sprinkled dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen pale grey, anal tuCt grey-whitisli. Forewings narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate; IJ present, 9 and 10 separate; wliitish, with 

 scattered dark fuscous scales, margins strewn with irregular small 

 spots of dark fuscou.s irroration ; rather large elongate spots of 

 fuscous and dark fuscous irroration representing stigmata, plical 

 obliquely beyond first discal ; an additional similar spot midway 

 betw^een plical and base, and a smaller spot between discal : cilia 

 whitish, basal half sprinkled dark fuscous, a median line of blackish 

 points. Hindwings 3 present, G and 7 stalked ; light grey ; cilia 

 whitish. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, January {de Mowhray)\ one specimen. 



Demobrotis alvearis, n. sp. 



S • 8 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sometimes mixed fuscous. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, apex of joints whitish. Thorax ochreous- 

 whitish sprinkled fuscous, a dark fuscous spot on shoulder. 

 Abdomen pale grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; 3 present, 8 out of 6, 9 and 10 

 separate ; whitish sprinkled luscous and dark fuscous ; about ten 

 mostly small dark fuscous spots along costa, those at ^, |-, and |^ 

 larger, roundish or oval rather large spots in disc (stigmata) 

 slightly beyond first two of these, some small irregular spots along 

 dorsum, larger elongate spots on tornus and middle of termen, and 

 one rather large at apex : cilia whitish, basal half strewn with 

 dark fuscous irroration, twice interrupted on termen. Hindwings 

 3 present, 6 and 7 stalked ; light grey or whitish-grey ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish. 



Ceylon, Kandy, Madulsima, Januai-y, May {Green, Fletcher); 

 two specimens. These differ in intensity of darl^^ marking (the 

 Madulsima specimen being the darker), but apparently not other- 

 wise. 



Cyathaula inophora, n. sp. 



J. 15 mm. Head, thorax ochreous-whitish. Maxillary palpi 

 long, pendent, several-jointed, filiform. (Labial palpi missing.) 

 Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 moderately arched, apex pointed, termen extremelj' obliquely 

 rounded ; whitish : small dark fuscous spots on costa near base, 

 just before middle, at |, and near apex, a minute dot bet-Aveen last 

 two; about thirteen small oohreous-grej' spots or dots irregularly 

 strewn in disc, also small spots on tornus and in middle of termen : 

 cilia white, two or three dark fuscous specks opposite tormil and 

 terminal spots. Hindwings cell not reaching middle of wing ; 

 subhyaline, veins and margins grey ; cilia light grey, at apex 

 whitish. 



