368 EXOTIC MICEOtEPIDOPTERA. 



fuscous, soraotiraes mixed or suffused in disc with whitish ; an 

 indistinct or nearly obsolete obli(]ue whitish strigula from costa at 

 ^, and very oblique white streaks from costa at middle and ^, 

 reaching i across wing, interspaces between these wholly dark 

 fuscous ; an indistinct or nearly obsolete short obli(]ue whitish 

 mark from middle of dorsum, and sometimes a cloudy spot on 

 tornus ; a round black apical dot : cilia pale fuscous, with three 

 oblique dark fuscous lines on costa, two projecting from apex, and 

 two short lines beneath apex all converging to apical dot. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia pale fuscous. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, in January, February, April, and October 

 (Pole) ; seven specimens. 



SYNNYMPHA, n. g. 



Head densely rough-haired ; tongue obsolete. Antennoj |, in (^ 

 somewhat stout, simple, basal joint short, dilated with scales to 

 form a small eyecap. Labial palpi rather short, porrected, filiform, 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi moderately long, several-jointed, folded, 

 filiform. Posterior tibiag clothed with hair-scales above. Fore- 

 wings with 2 from |^, 3 from |^, 4 from angle, 6 absent, 7 to costa, 

 8 absent, 11 from ^. Hindwings ^, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4; 

 3 and 4 absent, cell open between 2 and 5, 6 absent, 7 approxi- 

 mated. 



Probably a development of Decadarchis. 



Synnympha diluviata, n. sp. 



S . 10 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Forewings 

 narrow-lanceolate, apex produced ; pearly white ; beyond an 

 antemedian line acutely angulated towards costa the wing is 

 wholly suffused with pale brownish-ochreous and sprinkled with 

 fuscous, on apical third more strongly and suffusedly.irrorated with 

 fuscous, especially towards apex ; a blackish apical dot : cilia 

 whitish-fuscous, with a blackish-grey median shade. Hindwings 

 pale grey ; a minute blackish apical dot ; cilia grey-whitish. 

 Ceylon, Maskeliya, in April (Pole) ; one specimen. 



Ereunetis transfumata, n. sp. 



d $ . 7-9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous sprinkled with 

 whitish. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, upturned, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; fuscous finely speckled with whitish and 

 irregularly sprinkled with coarse blackish scales ; three undefined 

 direct transversf! fascia? and an apical patch of brown suffusion and 

 blackish irroration, two posterior fasciae followed on costa by 

 obscure patches of whitish suffusion : cilia grey sprinkled with 

 blackish, Hindwings and cilia pale grey ; an oval hyaline spot 

 beneath base of cell ; in c5' an expansible fan of long ochreous- 

 grey-whitish hairs from basal portion of costa directed over disc. 

 Ceylon, Puttalam, in January, September, and November (7'oZ«); 



