OSCOPHOETB^. 2.')5 



palpi very short, filiform, appressed to toDgue. Posterior tibips 

 clothed with short hairs above. Forewings with tufts of scales ; 

 lb furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 

 from before middle. Hindwings nearly 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1 ; 

 cell less than half wing, with a hyaline striated patch beneath it 

 before 2, 2 from middle of lower margin, 3 and 4 connate from 

 angle, 5-7 parallel. 



Cyphothyris ophryodes, n. sp. 



c? . 12 mm. Head and thorax ochreoas-whitish. Palpi ochreons- 

 "whitish, terminal joint with a dark grey ring above middle. 

 Abdomen pale grey, anal tuft oehreous-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen hardly rounded, very oblique ; pale whitish-ochreous ; un- 

 defined pale ochreous patches sprinkled with grey extending along 

 co.sta from j to |, along dorsum from g to near tornus, and over 

 central portion of disc ; a brown streak on fold from near base to 

 plical stigma ; stigmata small, blackish, plical obliquely before first 

 discal, second represented by a raised tuft of mixed scales, with a 

 similar tuft beneath it, and followed by a brownish streak limiting 

 a triangular brownish-ochreoiis patch resting on tornus ; an ochreous 

 streak sprinkled with grey along posterior part of costa : cilia 

 oehreous-whitish sprinkled with brown points towards base. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, in November [Alston) ; one specimen. 



MELEONOMA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales; ocelli present; tongue developed. 

 Antennae f , in J rather stout, serrulate, simple or very minutely 

 ciliated, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, 

 recurved, second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint shorter 

 than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, 

 appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with hairs above. 

 Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings under 1, ovate-lanceolate, 

 cilia Ik ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 parallel. 



Type stomota Meyr. 



Meleonoma petrota, n. sp. 



c? $ . 9-10 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous somewhat 

 sprinkled with blackish. Palpi oehreous-whitish sprinkled with 

 blackish, second joint with blackish subapical ring. Abdomen 

 greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; pale 

 yellow-ochreous, with some scattered fuscous and black scales, 



