GIO EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



8. India, Nilgiris, 3500-7000 feet, in April {Andreioes), 

 Shevaroys, 4-500 feet, in April {Fletcher) ; four specimens. 



Melasina infensa, n. sp. 



cT . 26-30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous; palpi 

 moderate. Antennal pectinations 5. Abdomen fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, and with 

 a few grey-whitish scales ; indistinct spots of darker irroration 

 beneath middle of disc and on end of cell ; costa posteriorly with 

 small indistinct darker spots or dots : cilia fuscous. Hindwings 

 rather light fuscous ; cilia whitish -fuscous. 



Bengal, Pusa, in June (Fletcher) ■ four specimens. 



Melasina ramifera, n. sp. 



S • 33-35 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey-oehreous, suf- 

 fusedly mixed with dark fuscous except face. Palpi moderate, gre}^, 

 tip whitish, vintennal pectinations 5. Abdomen pale greyish- 

 ochreous suffusedly mixed with grey. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 pale greyish-ochreous, more or less irrorated with grey or fuscous, 

 with distinct grey lines on veins, and scattered dark fuscous scales 

 tending to form transverse strignlaB ; markings fuscous, variable 

 in development and distinctness ; a suffused dorsal patch about ^ ; 

 a broad streak along costa from base to beyond g, thence crossing 

 very obliquely to below middle and forming a quadrate prominence 

 reaching below fold, continued as an irregular patch bent up round 

 end of cell to near costa and sending irregular bars to costa before 

 and beyond |, its posterior edge irregularly angular opposite tornus; 

 three dark dots on costa towards apex : cilia pale greyish-ochreous 

 barred with fuscous. Hindwings light fuscous, veins darker ; cilia 

 whitish-grey-ochreous, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



2 . 40-47 mm. Forewings more reticulated with grey than in 

 J , markings lighter and very indistinct. 



Bengal, Pusa, in June, taken at light ( F letch er); twentj^-five 

 specimens. From the following species, taken with it, it may be 

 distinguished by narrower forewings, with more oblique termen, 

 distinct oblique fascia, and grey lines on veins. 



Melasina devincta, u. sp. 



c? . 30-33 mm. Head and thorax fuscous mixed with whitish. 

 Palpi moderate, fuscous, apex fuscous-whitish. Antennal pecti- 

 nations 5. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, rather 

 oblique ; pale fuscous sprinkled with darker, with scattered indis- 

 tinct dark fuscous strigula^ ; indistinct irregular more or less dark 

 fuscous markings, viz. some suffusion along basal third of costa, a 

 spot on fold beneath middle of wing, a transverse fasciate patch 

 from costa beyond middle, indistinctly expanded in disc beyond 



