to 
July 30, 1912.) Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 85s 
— [From the Journal or THE Bombay NaTuRat Hisrory Socrry, 
July 30,, 1912.) 
DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
By 
EB.) Mnynrick, B.A. F-R.8., E.Z:S. 
XV. 
(Continued from page 131 of this Volume.) 
KucosMID&. 
Hermenias, ae ia ke Linn Joe, W.SW, XXKMI- 12S ( I9it ) 
Antennsx in ¢ ciliated, with excavated notch in stock near base. Palpi 
moderate, porrected, second joint with dense rough projecting scales 
above and beneath, terminal joint moderate. Thorax without crest. 
Forewings with 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex or termen. Hindwings with 3 
and 4 stalked or coincident, 5 closely approximated at base, 6 and 7 closely 
approximated towards base. 
Type epidola, Meyr. from Australia. 
Hermenias pachnitis, 0. sp. 
3 Q. 14-15mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish mixed with white. 
Antennal notch of ¢ ati. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly 
dilated, costa slightly arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly 
sinuate, rather oblique; 7 to termen; grey or dark grey ribbed with 
black; costa more or less obscurely strigulated with white irroration; an 
irregular patch of confused white marbling or strigulation occupying most 
of dorsal half from base to 2 and thence extended as a fascia to costa 
before apex, including a more or less defined irregularly triangular spot of 
ground colour on middle of dorsum; a leaden-metallic whitish-edged erect 
mark from tornus, and a leaden-metallic streak along lower } of termen : 
cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, basal half white with three or four blackish 
bars on upper half of termen. MHindwings with 3 and 4 coincident ; 
thinly scaled, semi-transparent, dark grey; cilia dark grey, in g on 
dorsum and tornus greatly elongated. 
Maskeliya and Patipola, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alston); in November, 
December, April and May, four specimens. 
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