April 21, 1913.} Indian Miero-Leprdoptera, 180 
[rom the JourNAL or THE Bompay Natura Hisrory Socusry, 
April 21, 1912.] 
DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY 
Be Mevrice BvAs, FURS: PiZeS. 
XV, 
(Continued from page 877 of Volume X XT.) 
GELECHIADS. 
Tituacia, Walk. 
Characters of Chelaria, but forewings with 3 and 4 stalked from angle 
of cell; hindwings with 3 and 4 connate. Stomylia, Snell, is a synonym. 
Tituacia deviella, Walk. 
(Tituacia deviella, Walk., Cat. XXIX, 812; Stomyla erosella, Snell., Tijd. 
v. Ent. XXII, 14, pl. VIII, 1-6.) 
Maskeliya and Madulsima, Ceylon (Pole, Green) ; in March, April, and 
September. Also from Java and Borneo. 
Palintropa, n.g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennas 
4,in ¢ serrulate, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very 
long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense scales above, beneath 
with broad rough tuft of projecting scales, terminal joint longer than 
second, thickened with scales, posteriorly with dense rough projecting 
scales except at apex, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, 
appressed to tongue. Posterior tibize with rough scales above. Forewings 
with 2 from angle, 3 absent, 6 to apex, 7 and 8 stalked, 11 from middle. 
Hindwings 3, narrowly elongate-trapezoidal, apex pointed, produced, 
termen beneath apex bisinuate, very oblique, cilia 3; 3 absent, 4 and 5 
connate, 6 and 7 stalked. 
A development of Chelaria. 
Palintropa hippiea, n. sp. ° 
$.13-14mm. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated with whitish. Palpi 
clothed with series of grey white-tipped scales, tuft of second joint mixed 
with grey and whitish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous 
and brownish. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa slightly arched, 
apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; fuscous 
irrorated with whitish; a dark brown patch irregularly irrorated with 
blackish extending along costa from 3 to near apex, and reaching more 
than half across wing, limited beneath before middle by a large tuft of 
scales on fold; a silvery-grey-whitish line crossing wing at 4, on lower 
half dilated into a spot preceded and followed by light brownish-ochreous 
spaces and margined anteriorly by a dark fuscous tuft of scales; a silvery- 
whitish angulated transverse line immediately before apex: cilia fuscous 
irrorated with whitish, towards base tinged with whitish-ochreous. Hind- 
wings dark grey, thinly scaled and semi-transparent in dise anterior!y ; 
cilia fuscous, suffused with whitish-ochreous towards base on lower 3 of 
termen, 
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