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January 31, 1911. | Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera, 
Strobisia immeritella, Walk. 
Madulsima, Ceylon. 
Strobisia epicentra, n. sp. 
$2. 7-10 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous. Palpi white, with a 
black line on each side throughout. Antenne whitish lined with blackish, 
Abdomen grey, apex ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, termen some- 
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what sinuate beneath apex, little oblique; 7 to costa, 8 and 9 out of 7 ; 
blackish-fuscous ; a fine white line immediately beneath costal edge from 
base almost to middle ; an irregular yellow-ochreous patch on basal portion 
of dorsum, sending a very oblique streak to extremity of this line, receiving 
a yellow-ochreous line from base above middle, and continued to upper 
extremity of a strongly inwards-oblique very elongate-oval yellow-ochreous 
ring in dise beyond middle, this latter portion edged beneath by a white 
streak ; two oblique slightly curved yellow-ochreous streaks from dorsum 
before middle to lower margin of this white streak, united at tips by a 
bar, second followed by more or less white suffusion; a yellow-ochreous 
streak from a white mark on costa at ? to dorsum before tornus, obtusely 
angulated in disc, separated on upper half from preceding markings by a 
white streak, and on lower portion by more or less white suffusion, and 
followed by a slightly curved leaden-metallic streak running from three 
short whitish strigulz on costa to tornus; terminal space beyond this 
yellow-ochreous, cut by three black bars, of which the median is thickest, 
upper linear: cilia pale ochreous, on upper part of termen leaden-metallic, 
on costa dark fuscous with whitish base, somewhat prominent at apex. 
Hindwings grey or dark grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish more or less tinged 
with grey, becoming greyer round apex. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole); in January, February, May, June, and October, 
eight specimens. This species, with the preceding and three following, 
forms a group requiring close attention as their markings are complex and 
superficially very similar; they can however easily be recognised if note is 
taken of the neuration, the markings of the palpi, and the character of the 
black marks preceding and following the subterminal metallic streak, 
Strobisia rhabducha, n. sp. 
3 2. 11-12 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, face paler or whitish-bronzy. 
Palpi fuscous-whitish, second joint dark fuscous towards apex anteriorly, 
terminal joint with a black line on each side. Antenne dark fuscous, 
extreme apex whitish. Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen grey, apex 
whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 
obtuse, termen sinuate beneath apex, somewhat oblique ; 7 absent, 8 and 9 
stalked ; blackish-fuscous ; a pale grey supramedian streak from base to. 
beyond middle, surmounted by an ochreous-yellow streak, both terminated 
by upper portion of a strongly inwards-oblique elongate-oval ochreous- 
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