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October 31, 1911.] Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 130- 
Posterior tibis with very long fuscous hairs. Forewings elongate, costa 
moderately arched, apex pointed, produced, termen sinuate, oblique ; 
2 and 3 connate, 7 to costa, separate, 9 and 10 approximated at base; 
dark purplish-fuscous, raised scales with a bluish-leaden gloss: cilia dark 
purplish-fuscous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 
_Sikkim, in August (Dudgeon) ; one specimen. 
Macheropteris limatula, n. sp. 
¢. 22mm. Head brownish. Palpi brownish, slightly sprinkled with 
whitish points. Thorax brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous. 
Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderate- 
ly arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, very oblique ; 7 to apex, separate, 
9 and 10 remote ; ochreous-brownish, some scales finely tipped with black ; 
a broad streak of whitish-ochreous suffusion along fold from near base to 
beyond middle, and a rather elongate patch in dise beyond middle: cilia 
purplish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, basal third brownish-ochre- 
ous limited by a fine black line. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Hakgala, Ceylon, in April (Green) ; one specimen. 
Macheropteris frenigera, n. sp. 
©. 24-25mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-fuscous suffused with 
darker and more or less mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark 
grey, protruded ovipositor as long asabdomen. Forewings elongate, mode- 
rate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded; 7 to apex, separate, 9 and 10 remote ; light fuscous irrorated 
with dark fuscous, tending to form transverse strigule ; a transverse streak 
of dark fuscous suffusion from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before 
tornus : cilia whitish-fuscous, with several fuscous lines. Hindwings rather 
dark grey ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 
Colombo, Ceylon, in November (Mackwood) ; two specimens. 
Macheropteris vernacula, n. sp. 
Q. 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, 
apex ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately 
arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex, sepa- 
rate, 9 and 10 separate; lilac-brown, irrorated with dark fuscous: cilia, 
brownish, with two dark fuscous lines. Hindwings dark purple-grey ; cilia 
grey, with darker subbasal line. 
Madulsima, Ceylon, in June (Green) ; one specimen. 
Macheropteris melicera, 1. sp. 
36 2. 21-30 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish- 
ochreous, anteriorly suffused with fulvous-ochreous. Abdomen grey. 
Posterior tibis in g with moderate whitish-ochreous hairs, Forewings 
elongate, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, produced, termen 
sinuate, oblique ; 2 and 3 sometimes connate or short-stalked, 7 to costa, 7 
and 8 sometimes stalked, 9 and 10 remote; whitish-ochreous, more or less 
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