260 EXOTIC MlCROLEriDOPTERA. 



more or less grey, round apex with two or three indistinct grey 

 lines, at apex forming an oblique downwards-projecting hook. 

 Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia grey, at apex of wing 

 suffused with ochreous-whitish. 



N. CooRG, Dibidi, 3500 feet, in December {Newcome) ; Assam, 

 Khasis ; two specimens. 



PICROTECHNA, n. g. 



Head with approssed scales, sidetufts slightly raised ; tongue 

 developed. Antennte 1, in S simple, basal joint elongate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint thickened 

 with appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, thickened 

 with appressed hair-scales posteriorly, pointed. Maxillary palpi 

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

 with hairs above. Forewings with "2 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 

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

 cilia 2 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 parallel. 



Picroteclma opliiodora, n. sp. 



(S 5- 13 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish sometimes 

 tinged with grey, shouldei's white. Palpi whitish, apex of second 

 joint greyish-tinged, terminal joint ochreous-whitish, with grey 

 median band. Abdomen grey. Porewings elongate, narrow, widest 

 at -|-, thence narrowed to apex, costa gently arched, faintlj- sinuate 

 beyond middle, apex tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely 

 rounded ; whitish-ochreous, on costal half more or less suffused 

 with ochreous-yellowish ; two" parallel violet-grey-whitish dark- 

 edged lines from base to middle of disc; two very oblique violet grey 

 whitish lines edged with dark fuscous from costa at ^ and ^, 

 reaching nearly half across wing, dark margin of first preceded by 

 a shorter violet-grc}-- whitish mark; dorsal half of wing from base 

 to I crossed by six rather curved oblique dark grey streaks, fourth 

 and fifth more blackish, enclosing an ochreous interspace, and with 

 adjacent interspaces whitish ; rather curved silver-metallic lines 

 crossing wing at | and before apex, connect ed on margins by rather 

 dark fuscous, first preceded by two dark fuscous marks in disc, 

 apex beyond second fuscous with a blackish prasapical dot : cilia 

 grevish, round apex with several rows of whitish points. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grej'. 



Assam, Khasis, in November and March ; two specimens. 



PORTHMOLOGA, n. g. ^ 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts somewhat raised, spreading ; 

 ocelli present; tongue developed. Antenufe ( 5 ) 4, basal joint 

 elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second 

 joint thickened with dense scales, somewhat expanded towards apex 

 above, terminal joint shorter than second, thickened with rough 



