GELECHIAD^. 201 



Brachmia impriidens, n. sp. 



2 . 17 mm. Head brownish-ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous 

 .si)riukled with dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen light 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 

 a])ex obtuse, termon obli(iuely rounded ; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to costa ; fuscous mixed with dark fuscous ; stigmata 

 dark fuscous, plical rather beyond first discal, second discal double; 

 very indistinct cloudy darker dots round posterior part of costa and 

 termen : cilia pale fuscous mixed with darker, Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



New South Wales, Ourimbah, in April {Lijell); one specimen. 

 Typo in Coll. Lyell. 



Idiophantis chiridota, n. sp, 



cJ 5 • 11-10 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous. 

 Palpi oclireous-whitish tinged with grey. Abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, termen 

 with deep elliptical excavation between slender pointed apical and 

 broader obtuse tornal promineuces ; 2 and 3 long-stalked, 6 absent ; 

 light grej'ish-ochreous, veins sometimes slightlj^ tinged with fuscous ; 

 a rather broad pale bronzy-fuscous streak along costa from near 

 base to middle, confluent beneath with an elongate sufll'used dark 

 fuscous blotch in disc from base to |, and a subquadrate dark 

 fuscous blotch centrally paler in disc before middle ; a dark fuscous 

 dot on lower margin of cell in middle of wing, and tAvo others at 

 angles of cell ; an indistinct paler obtusely angulated subterminal 

 line, becoming grey-whitish on costa, adjoining terminal excavation 

 in middle ; a pale ochreous-yellowish line from costa beyond this 

 running into apical prominence ; a coppery-metallic spot edged with 

 green beneath occupying upper part of tornal ju'omineuce, with a 

 pale ochreous-3-ellowish streak beneath it : cilia whitish-grey, above 

 apical prominence whitish, above tornal prominence coppery- 

 metallic, beneath it ochreous-whitish. Hindwings light bronzy- 

 grey; cilia bronzy-whitish. 



Ckylon, Maskeliya, Colombo {de MoivhrcDj, Maclcwood), in 

 January ; two specimens. Also two in British Museum from 

 Peradeniya, bred in May from galls produced by a Psyllid on 

 EiKjenia (^Iiutherford). 



Trichotaphe oenombra, n. sp, 



d. 20 mm. Head grey sprinkled with ochreous-whitish. Palpi 

 dark grey sprinkled with whitish, second joint with scales triangu- 

 larly expanded on apical half above, terminal joint ochreous- 

 whitish, anterior edge finely dark fuscous. Thorax brownish, 

 shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate towards middle, 

 apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique ; brown, sprinkled with 



