580 EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOPTERA. 



greyish ; a black mark on base of costa, and a dot towards base 

 above middle ; a triangular blackish blotch extending on costa 

 from I to I and reaching more than half across wing, both costal 

 angles cut off by fine white strigulse, from its posterior angle a 

 straight light greyish-ochreous streak runs near costa to apex, 

 edged above on its median portion by an elongate black costal 

 mark ; two minute black specks longitudinally placed in disc 

 beyond apex of costal blotch ; a short black subapical dash edged 

 above with white : cilia grey-whitish. Hindwiugs grey, thinly 

 scaled anteriorly and i)rismatic-hyaline near base ; cilia grey. 



Upper Edema, Maymyo, 3500 feet, in August {Fletcher) ; one 

 specimen. 



Chelaria syncrypta, n. sp. 



S . 15-16 mm. Head whitish sprinkled with fuscous and dark 

 fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish sprinkled with fuscous and 

 dark fuscous, second joint beneath with moderate rounded tuft 

 of projecting hairscales, terminal joint much thickened with rather 

 rough scales almost throughout, with three bands of dark fuscous 

 suffusion. Thorax whitish spotted with rather dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey-whitish, with an apical tuft of fulvous-brown 

 scales above between claspers. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 6 separate ; white, irregularly sprinkled with grey, and strewn 

 throughout with small cloudy dark grey spots arranged in trans- 

 verse series, those of median area suffused together with purplish- 

 grey and irrorated with dark fuscous, forming an undefined dark 

 transverse band occupying more than g of wing : cilia pale grey 

 sprinkled with white. Hindwings and cilia pale grey. 



Cetlon, Maskeliya and Haputale, in February and June {Pole, 

 Alston) ; two specimens. 



Chelaria rhicnota, n. sp. 



c? $ . 10-11 mm. Head and thorax grey sprinkled with 

 whitish, patagia suft'used with dark fuscous. Palpi grey sprinkled 

 with whitish, second joint with strong dense subquadrate tuft 

 beneath, terminal joint thickened and roughened with scales 

 almost throughout, whitish with subbasal riug and two subcon- 

 fluent bands dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

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

 extremely obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 out of 6 ; dark grey 

 sprinkled with grey-whitish, longitudinally suffused with brownish 

 in disc posteriorly ; five oblique dark fuscous marks on costa 

 between I and | ; a linear black dot beneath costa near base ; 

 a blackish line along fold from base to i, a longitudinal black line 

 from above apex of this to 4, a shorter one beyond this, and one 

 above and between these ; some short longitudinal marks of 

 blackish irroration before posterior part of costa and termen : 

 cilia dark grey, slightly sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings 



