GELECHIADJE. 581 



rather dark grey, anterior portiou of cell and area beneath it 

 hyaline ; cilia grey. 



S. India, Shevaroys (4500 feet), in Decembei-, and Chittur, bred 

 in February from larva feeding on flowers of Mangifera indica 

 {Fletcher). The pupa has five abdominal segments fixed. 



Chelaria formidolosa, u. sp. 



6 ? • 17-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish sprinkled with 

 grey. Palpi whitish sprinkled with grey and spotted with dark 

 fuscous, second joint with narrow ba^al and moderately broad 

 apical tuft beneath, and expanded with rough scales towards apex 

 above, terminal joint thickened with scales except towards apex, 

 with two strong scale-projections posteriorly. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous tinged with grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 gently arched, with rough projecting scales beyond middle, apex 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 6 closely approximated 

 to 7 on basal half; white sprinkled with grey, with scattered 

 indistinct grey spots or mottling; two more distinct small dark 

 grey spots on costa before middle, several on posterior half, a dot 

 on dorsum at \, and a cloudj' spot on tornus ; a small semioval 

 blackish spot on middle of costa, and one reversed in disc some- 

 what before it ; a black dash towards costa at |, and an elongate 

 dot beneath apex : cilia whitish sprinkled with grey. Hindwings 

 light grey, paler anteriorly ; cilia pale grey, with darker basal 

 shade. 



ISTatal, Pinetown, in February (Lei(jJi) ; two specimens. Near 

 tetra^tila. 



Chelaria discissa, n. sp. 



J . 16-17 mm. Head whitish-ochreous slightly sprinkled with 

 fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint with two moderate tufts 

 beneath and two brownish- ochreous bands, terminal joint nearly 

 twice second, with four subconfluent ochreous-brown bands and 

 two posterior scale-projections. Thorax whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous, with a dark brown spot on each side of back. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 6 closely 

 approximated to 7 on basal half; ochreons-whitish irrorated with 

 brown ; a minute black strigula beneath costa at base ; brown 

 median and subdorsal spots near base, and one on costa at i ; 

 a larger brown spot in disc at ^-, edged above by a black mark, 

 and connected with dorsum at i by a brown streak ; a narrow 

 semioval blackish spot on middle of costa, surrounded with brown 

 suffusion, and confluent beneath with an irregular transverse 

 brown blotch from dorsum beyond middle ; a black line several 

 times slightly interrupted running from apex of this blotch to 

 termen beneath apex ; a short black dash at ^ of costa ; a patch 

 of brown suffusion occupying most of apical third of wing : cilia 

 light brownish, slightly whitish-sprinkled. Hindwings grey, veins 



