50(5 EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOPTERA. 



suffusedly irrorated with white ; a hroad wliite dorsal streak from 

 base to near tornus, posteriorly suffused, edged by a broad dark 

 fuscous streak from base to beyond middle of wing, suffused above 

 and pointed posteriorly ; a short fine black dash in disc towards 

 apex, beneath its anterior extremity a minute black dot edged 

 anteriorly with ochreous and posteriorly with raised grey scales : 

 cilia whitish, on costa with a dark grey shade. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia whitish ; in c? an expansible tuft of very long fine 

 whitish hairs from base of costa. 



Bengal, Pusa ; S. India, Coimbatore ; two specimens, bred in 

 November and March from larvae feeding in stems of Indiyofera 

 {^Fletcher). 



Pyroderces albilineella Dev. 

 Bred in April from, larva boring in pods of Cassia corymhosa 

 {Fletcher). Pupa rather stout, all segments fixed except anal. 



GELECHIAD.^. 



Idiophantis anisosticta, n. sp, 



J $. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous-fuscous, 

 face bronzy-whitish. Palpi pale bronzy-ochreous, second joint 

 rather expanded with scales towards apex above, terminal joint 

 somewhat thickened with scales, suffused with blackish-grey ex- 

 ternally. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, termen with deep elliptical excavation between 

 slender pointed apical and broad obtuse tornal prominence ; 2 and 

 3 separate, 6 present; ochreous-fuscous ; discal stigmata blackish, 

 plical represented by an elongate cloudy darker fuscous s])ot 

 beyond first discal ; an obtusely angulated pale bluish-grey dark- 

 edged line from | of costa to dorsum before tornal prominence, 

 towards costa becoming white and edged with blackish ; a black 

 dot following angle of this line, edged beneath by a small spot of 

 coppery-metallic suffusion, a blackish dot on tornal margin beyond 

 Hue, and sometimes a small indistinct blackish dot between these ; 

 apical prominence beyond line light ochreous-yellowish, cut by an 

 oblique whitish posteriorly blackish-edged line near and parallel to 

 preceding line, the blackish margin running into apex : cilia 

 gicj'ish, above apex with a white blackish-edged triangular spot, 

 above tornal prominence suffused with coppery-metallic. Hind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey, opposite apex whitish with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line. 



Ceylon, Colombo, Diyatalawa, in March and July {Macl-ivood, 

 Fletcher) ; five specimens. Also one seen from the Dawna Hills, 

 Burma. 



Idiophantis paraptila, n. sp. 



5 . 11 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous, face bronzy- 

 whitish. Palpi dark metallic-grey, second joint with dense scales 

 expanded towards apex above, terminal joint thickened with 



