622 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Lithocolletis incurvata, n. sp. 



cJ . 4-5 mm. Head bronzy-oclireous, face whitish. Thorax 

 golden-bronze, apex of patagia white. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 lanceolate ; golden-bronzj'-brown, towards apex infuscated ; mark- 

 ings snow-white, finely edged with black scales ; straight narrow 

 transverse fascine about ^ and middle, slightly oblique inwards 

 from costa ; opposite triangular costal and dorsal spots about |^, 

 costal smaller and slightly posterior ; a dot on costa just before 

 apex : cilia grey, basal half within a dark fuscous line bronzy- 

 brown sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August from larvte raining blotches in 

 leaves of Stroh'dantlics callosus (Acanthacece) {Maxwell) ; five 

 specimens. 



LithocoUetis acratynta, n. sp. 



S. 6 mm. Head whitish -ochreous, face whitish. Thorax 

 bronzy-ocbreous, wnth a curved transverse bar of whitish suffusion. 

 Eorewings lanceolate ; golden-bronzy-ochreoos ; markings shining 

 snow-vphite ; a dot on base of dorsum; slender transverse fascia? 

 about \ and middle, slightly oblique inwards from costa, hardly 

 bent near costa, partially edged posteriorly with a few blackish 

 scales ; pairs of opposite triangular spots, edged with a few scat- 

 tered blackish scales, at -j and just before apex: cilia whitish, on 

 basal half pale bronzy-ochreous within a fine dark bronzy line. 

 Hindwings and cilia gre_y. 



S. India, Coimbatore, in February [Fhtclier) ; one specimen. 



LithocoUetis conista Meyr. 



Six further bred specimens received by the kindness of Mr. 

 Fletcher show that the description should be amended as follows : 

 thorax more or less suffused with white; marking of forewing 

 described as first fascia is really only a streak from costa, lower 

 arm of fascia being absent ; sometimes a more or less extended 

 whitish longitudinal mark in disc towards apex. 



LithocoUetis clarisona, n. sp. 



S . 5 mm. (Head lost.) Thorax bronzy-ochreous mixed with 

 whitish. Forewings lanceolate ; golden-bronzy-ochreous ; a very 

 short cloudy whitish basal mark in middle; a rather oblique white 

 strigula from costa at \, edged anteriorly with black irroration ; 

 an obtusely angulated slender white median fascia, edged ante- 

 riorly with black irroration ; three small triangular white spots 

 on costa posteriorly, edged anteriorly with black, first two con- 

 nected beneath by a patch of black irroration above tornus, third 

 almost apical ; two or three white and black scales on tornus ; a 

 white longitudinal mark connecting supratornal ])atch with an 

 apical spot of black irroration : cilia pale golden-ochreous, towards 

 base sprinkled with black points. Hindwings grey ; cilia light 

 greyish-ochreous. 



