238 EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOPTEEA. 



sprinkled or mixed with pale ochreous and fuscons ; basal half 

 irregularly clouded with light ochreous and pale purplish ; a fuscous 

 spot on costa at ^, preceded and followed by whitish, and some 

 irregular dark fuscous markings in di?c beneath it representing 

 anterior stigmata ; a triangular dark purplish-fuscoua patch on 

 costa beyond middle, its apex reaching a raised blackish spot 

 representing second discal stigma, and extended as a brownish 

 streak to a small blackish spot on dorsum before tornus ; some 

 brownish suffusion along costa posteriorly, and a small dark 

 purplish-fuscous spot at -^ ; a terminal series of large blackish dots : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Assam, Khasis, in July ; one specimen. Very like the European 

 daphneUa, but smaller and duller, and certainly distinct by pro- 

 portionately longer and slenderer terminal joint of palpi, and 

 sinuate termen of forewings. 



EL^ONOMA, u. g. 



Characters of Ealechria, but forewings with 2 and 3 stalked. 

 Type piodes Meyr. ; includes also autogramma Meyr., chersodes 

 Meyr., and others. 



Elaeonoma nephelissa, n. sp. 



2. 20 mm. Headlight ochreous-yellow. Palpi light ochreous- 

 yellow, basal | of second joint suffused with dai'k fuscous. Thorax 

 lilac-fuscous mixed with darker. Abdomen greyish. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; fuscous mixed with darker ; an undefined fascia of pale 

 ochreous-yellowish suffusion towards base, broader and more dis- 

 tinct towards costa ; a pale oclireous-yellowish suffused dot on 

 lower angle of cell ; a pale ochreous-yellowish suffused blotch on 

 costa at 1^, a smaller one at apex, and one less distinct in disc 

 towards middle of termen : cilia pale ochreous-yellowish, base 

 somewhat sprinkled with fuscous. Hindwings greyish ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, in September (Alston)-, two specimens. 



STEREODYTIS, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts raised, spreading; ocelli 

 present ; tongue developed. Antennae |, in c5' stout, scaled on 

 back, with whorls of stiff scales at joints, moderately ciliated, basal 

 joint elongate, stout, with dense long pecten on lower half. Labial 

 palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed scales, 

 terminal joint as long as second, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed 



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