204 EXOTIC MTCKOLEriDOrTEKA. 



Cevlon, Peradeniya, in October {Rutherford) ; one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. Cocoon firm, oval, white, with attached 

 excrement, placed between spun leaves where the larva has 

 a])parently fed. 



ELACHISTID.E. 



CLEROPTILA, n. g. 



Head with appressed hairs, sidetufts loosely spreading ; ocelli 

 ])resent ; tongue developed. Antennae |, in S simple, basal joint 

 moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, curved, 

 ascending, second joint with rough projecting apical tuft beneath, ter- 

 minal joint shorter than second, loosely scaled, pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi obsolete. Posterior tibise clothed wath long hairs above and 

 beneath. Forewings with tufts of scales ; 1 h simple, 2 from angle, 

 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings |, lanceolate, cilia 2| ; 2-4 nearly parallel, 5 absent, 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



Type chelonitis Meyr., which I now recognise must be separated 

 from Elachista. 



Cleroptila clielonitis Meyr. 



S 2 • 9-10 mm. Head and thorax white, in $ irrorated with 

 dark fuscous, shoulders with an ochreous spot. Palpi white, second 

 joint in S sometimes slightly sprinkled with dark fuscous, in $ 

 more strongly irrorated. Abdomen grey, anal tuft of J ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arelied, 

 apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; white, in S sprinkled, 

 in § strongly irrorated with dark fuscous ; an elongate-oval yellow- 

 ochreous blotch in disc about | ; a rather oblique yellow-ochreous 

 median fascia, mixed with black on costa, and edged posteriorly by 

 tufts of scales mixed with black in middle and near dorsum ; an 

 oclireous-y allow blotch on termen above tormis, and one on costa 

 above this more or less mixed with black, the terminal blotch 

 preceded by a tuft of scales, whence a line or streak of black scales 

 runs to termen and along termen nearly to apex : cilia white 

 sprinkled with black, in $ more strongly irrorated. Hindwings 

 and cilia in J from rather dark grey to grey-w^hitish, in 5 dark 

 grey. 



Ntassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in September {Neave) ; fourteen 

 specimens. I have redescribed this species from lai'ger material, 

 as there is considerable variability, and the female (which at first 

 sight looks very different from the male) has not been described 

 before. 



