COSMOPTEKYGID^. 325 



Thorax pale brownish irrorated with dark grey, edges of patagia 

 whitish. Abdomen dark grey, segmental margins whitish. 

 Forewings very narrow, widest near base, thence narrowed to 

 sinuate-caudate apex ; light pink-brownish, more or less strewn 

 with line dark fuscous or blackish irroration ; a transverse white 

 line at 4, edged anterioi-ly by a small irregular black spot beneath 

 costa ; a slenderer transverse white line at g ; an irregular oblique 

 transverse white median streak, partially connected with a more 

 irregular and oblique white streak from costa beyond it to tornus ; 

 costal edge white from this to a small blackish spot about | ; apical 

 third tinged with fulvous ; cilia light greyish-ochreous, on costa 

 whitish, at apex with a black mark, on terraen with a whitish 

 patch below apex and sprinkled with dark fuscous specks towards 

 base. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Ceylon, Galle, Maskeliya, from March to June (Fletcher, Pole) ; 

 four specimens. 



ANATRACHYNTIS, n. g. 



Head smooth-scaled ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennoe 

 1^, in c? simple or shortly ciliated, basal joint elongate, somewhat 

 thickened, with slight pecteu. Labial palpi very long, recurved, 

 second joint thickened with appressed scales, terminal joint longer 

 than second, more or less thickened with scales, acute. Maxillary 

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

 clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings with slightly raised 

 scales or one or two tufts ; 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 out of 6, 

 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings ^, linear-lanceolate, cilia 

 4-6 ; 2-5 parallel, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Typo fiilcateUa Staint, ( = spodochtJia Meyr.). Has been included 

 'Tnthevto in Ptiroderces (=Sta</nu(t02)hom^, but is a natural group 

 w' hich it is dj^'irable to separate. Other species are the Australian 

 pip-rhodes, tenninella, aulacosema, anaclastis, mesopiila ; African 

 tentoria, tripola, acris ; Oriental coriacella ; New Zealand aeUotricha. 

 I have mesoptila also from Manchikeri, Kanara {Maxwell). 



Anatrachyntis centrophanes, n. sp. 



cT 2 . 9-12 mm. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous or brownish- 

 ochreous, face whitish. Palpi ochreous, terminal joint becoming 

 whitish towards apex, with blackish subapical band. Abdomen 

 rather dark grey. Forewings narrow-lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 acute ; red-brownish somewhat clouded with pale ochreous suffu- 

 sion ; basal area darker reddisli-brown, limited by an irregular-edged 

 oblique- white line about \, margined anteriorly with some fine 

 black marks on dorsal half, and posteriorly by a round black dot 

 beneath costa surrounded with whitish ; an elongate mark of dark 

 fuscous irroration beneath costa beyond middle, a similar oblique 

 mark before this towards dorsum, one along termen above tornus, 

 one on costa beyond this, and one more distinct along upper part 



