October 12, 1910. ] Description of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 46D 
Peradeniya, Ceylon, in March (Green) ; two specimens. 
Timyra mendicella, Walk. 
(Decuaria mendicella, Walk., Cat. X XIX, 797; Timyra torentis, Meyr., 
Journ., Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XVIII, 449.) 
By an unfortunate confusion between this and the following species, 
which I had wrongly supposed to be mendicella, I have re-described the true 
mendicella as torentis, thus leaving the other unnamed; I now correct this error. 
— 
Timyra preceptrix, n. sp. 
$2. 21-25mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, sides of. crown yellowish, face 
whitish-ochreous. Palpi in both sexes sickle-shaped, pale yellowish, lined 
with blackish, in g¢ with second joint clothed with loose hairs above. 
Antenne in ¢ with strong basal tuft of blackish and yellowish scales. 
Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, variably mixed with yellow, with a whitish 
line on each side of back. Abdomen fuscous more or less wholly 
suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish. Posterior tibize with large median 
tuft of long curved purplish-fuscous and ochreous-yellow scales tipped 
with black. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 
obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique; 7 to apex, 9 out of 7 
or separate ; dark purplish-fuscous ; basal, median, and terminal areas 
marked with suffused longitudinal orange streaks which are very 
variable in development, but discontinuous between the areas, most 
largely developed in ¢ ; in ¢ a cloudy transverse ochreous-whitish or 
pale orange transverse line before middle; two short white streaks on 
veins 8 and 9 towards costa; a whitish line along termen: cilia whitish- 
fuscous, with three blackish-fuscous lines. Hindwings rather dark fuscous 
in do more or less suffusedly mixed with ochreous-yellowish along a 
broad longitudinal median area; in ¢ a subdorsal groove enclosing an 
expansible pencil of very long whitish-ochreous hairs ; cilia fuscous suffuser 
with yellowish on upper half of termen, with two fuscous shades. 
Maskeliya, Pundaluoya, Bogawantalawa, Dickoya, and Maturatta, Ceylon 
(Pole, Green, de Mowbray) ; from February to April, and August to Octo- 
ber; twelve specimens. Larger than mendicella, without the white basal 
lines of forewings, and further distinguished in ¢ by the hairs of second 
joint of palpi and yellowish suffusion of hindwings. 
Epimimastis glaucodes, n. sp. 
3d. 16-17mm. Head and thorax light grey, lower part of face darker 
grey. Palpi grey, anterior edge darker. Abdomen light grey. Fore- 
wings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse. 
termen rounded, rather oblique; grey; a black dot near base above 
middle ; an oval blackish blotch in dise before middle, edged with white : 
second discal stigma black edged with white ; apex and termen somewhat 
suffused with darker, with a blackish marginal line: cilia light grey. 
Hindwings light grey ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 
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