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with pale ochreous-yellowish ; a large round black apical dot ; 

 cilia white, with two fine oblique fuscous lines in costal cilia 

 towards apex, and two others diverging al)ove apex, on termen 

 with basal half pale ochreous limited by a curved fuscous line. 

 Hind wings and cilia white. 



OErLON, Peradeniya, bred in December (liutherfonl) ; one 

 specimen. Larva mining in leaves of Melia azednracli\Mdi(u-ene). 

 Type in British Museum. Extremely like citrella, but even 

 smaller, being one of the most minute Lepidoptera, without distinct 

 lines from base, and well distinguisVied by the absence of the 

 silvery-white dot preceding the black apical dot. 



Phyllocnistis habrochroa, n. sp. 



c? 5 . 4 ram. Head, palpi, anteniife, thorax, and abdomen 

 silvery-white. Forewings lanceolate, apex acute, produced, down- 

 turned ; silverj^-white ; two indistinct grey longitudinal lines in 

 disc from base to middle, space between these suffused with pale 

 bi'assy- yellow ; a slightly outwards-oblique fine fuscous line from 

 middle of costa, reaching half across wing; a slightly inwards- 

 oblique straight fine fuscous transv.Tse line at |, anteriorly edged 

 with pale yellowish suffusion ; apical third of wing suffused with 

 pale whitish-yellowish ; a large black apical dot partly in cilia, 

 preceded by a silvery-whitish dot edged anteriorly by a fine dark 

 grey line: cilia yellow-whitish, with two fine oblique dark grey 

 lines in costal cilia towards apex, one above apex, a grey subfurcate 

 patch at apex with some black specks at tip, a dark grey line 

 downwards beneath apex, a curved line limiting more yellowish- 

 tinged basal half on termen, and a short daik grey projecting line 

 from dorsal extremity of postmedian transverse line. Hindwings 

 grey- whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August (Maxwell); three specimens. 

 Larva raining galleries in leaves of " cheli," an undetermined 

 shrub ; pupa in turned-over edge of leaf {Maxwell). Close to 

 citrella, but first costal line is much less oblique. 



Phyllocnistis sigoata, n. sp. 



$ . 8 ram. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen silvery-wliite. 

 Forewings narrow-lanceolate, apex caudate ; whitish-ochreous, 

 becoming silvery-white towards costa anteriorly ; a slightly 

 inwards-oblique narrow dark fuscous streak from costa at f, 

 reaching | across wing ; a faint pale yellowish slightly inwards- 

 oblique transverse line beyond middle, marked with a strigula of 

 dark fuscous specks at each extremity : cilia whitish, on costa 

 with three fine oblique dark fuscous lines, at apex yellowish- 

 tinged, with a dark fuscous projecting line, on termen with a 

 curved dark fuscous line beyond middle, beneath postraedinn line 

 with two or three dark fuscous specks. Hindwings and cilia 

 white. 



y. India, Ootacamund, 7500 feet, in December (Fletcher). 

 Distinct by the strong dark streak from costa before middle. 



