GELECHIAD^. 567 



scales roughly projecting posteriorly towards apex, tip whitish. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, termen with deep elliptical excavation between slender 

 pointed apical and broad obtuse tornal prominence ; 2 and 3 

 separate, o present; pale ochreous sutfusedly irrorated with light 

 fuscous ; first discal and plical stigmata indicated by small cloudy 

 fuscous spots, plical obliquely posterior ; a fine obtusely angu- 

 lated grey-whitish line from | of costa to dorsum before tornal 

 prominence, becoming white on costa, marked just beneath angle 

 with a blackish dot, and with a minute black dot on lower ex- 

 tremity ; tornal prominence tinged with shining purplish, becoming 

 coppery-metallic on upper margin, with a deep bluish longitudinal 

 mark on tornal margin edged above with ochreous ; apical pro- 

 minence pale yellow-ochreous, cut by a very fine oblique whitish 

 line iri'orated with fuscous near and parallel to ])receding line : 

 cilia light ochreous, above apex with a white wedge-shaped spot 

 edged with dark fuscous, on upper margin of tornal prominence 

 suffused with coppery-metallic. Hiudwings rather dark grey ; 

 cilia grey, at apex grey-whitish with dark fuscous basal mark. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, in January (Pole) ; one specimen. Very 

 like preceding, but differs in absence of second discal stigma and 

 blackish costal margins of line and other details, also from all 

 described species by pronounced scale-projection of terminal joint 

 of palpi. 



Idiophantis carpotoma, n. sp. 



2 . 14 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous, face shining 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, termiiial joint with 

 blackish line on each side. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, termen with deep excavation between 

 slender pointed apical and broad obtuse tornal prominence; 3 absent, 

 6 present ; dark fuscous, bases of scales pale greyish-ochreous ; 

 two yellow semioval dorsal blotches reaching half across wing, 

 first about g, second on tornal area ; a fulvous-yellow line from 

 |- of costa to posterior extremity of second blotch, right-angled in 

 disc, edged with black posteriorly towards extremities, followed by 

 a leaden streak from costa, black-edged posteriorly towards costa, 

 expanded beneath into a coppery-tinged spot filling tornal promi- 

 nence and marked with a black dot at its apex ; apical prominence 

 beyond this ferruginous-yellow, cut by a short oblique white line 

 near its base, continued along lower margin to apex : cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, on tornal prominence light metallic grey towards 

 base, beneath apical prominence yellowish with a blackish basal 

 dot beneath apex, above apex with a white wedge-shaped spot 

 edged with ferruginous-yellow. Hindwings light grey ; cilia 

 whitish-grey. 



S. India, Nilgiris, Pykara, 7000 feet, in April (Andrewes) ; one 

 specimen. 



Epithectis dryozona, n. sp. 



J. 8 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-grey-whitish sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi whitish irrorated with dark fuscous, 



