16? ~—- Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Sie., Vol. XXII, No. i [Apri 21, 1918. 
sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline 
anteriorly, veins and termen dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray) ; from August to October, and in 
February, five specimens. 
Chelaria particulata, n. sp. (abit 
3g. 10-12mm. Head and thorax grey irrorated with whitish. Palpi 
whitish, second joint blackish except apex, with short projecting apical tuft 
beneath, terminal joint somewhat thickened with scales except apex, with 
three blackish rings. Abdomen grey, anal tuft greyish-ochreous. Fore- 
wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen 
extremely obliquely rounded ; 6 separate, 7 and 8 stalked ; grey, irrorated 
with whitish; a series of small dark fuscous spots along costa, one before 
middle rather larger and elongate ; an elongate dark fuscous mark on fold 
at 2 of wing; a small dark fuscous spot in dise at #; some brownish 
suffusion and irregular dark fuscous irroration towards apex: cilia grey 
sprinkled with whitish, Hindwings dark grey, thinly scaled anteriorly ; 
cilia grey. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in January, February, May and September, 
five specimens. 
Encolapta, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antenne 
4,in 3 simple, basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial 
palpi long, recurved, second joint with short apical tuft beneath, terminal 
joint longer than second, somewhat thickened with scales except.at apex, 
acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 
tibixe clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle 
3 absent, 4 from angle, 6 and 8 stalked, 6 to apex, 7 absent, 11 from 
middle. Hindwings 4, elongate-trapezoidal, apex round-pointed, termen 
beneath apex somewhat bisinuate, oblique, cilia 13; 3-5 closely approxima- 
ted at base, 6and 7 long-stalked. 
Allied to the early forms of Chelaria, but differing essentially in the 
absence of vein 3 of forewings. 
Encolapta metorcha, n. sp. 
3. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax dark grey irrorated with white. Palpi 
whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint with 
subbasal and supramedian blackish rings. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 
whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, 
apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; grey or fuscous 
jrrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales ; a series of small 
blackish spots along costa, one in middle rather larger and elongate ; some 
irregular scattered groups of dark fuscous scales in dise ; a preemarginal 
series of cloudy dark fuscous spots round posterior part of costa and 
termen: cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, basal half barred with dark 
fuscous. Hindwings grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly, veins and 
termen darker; cilia grey. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (de Mowbray, Pole); m January and April, two 
specimens. 
Anarsia, Zell. 
I have referred Stainton’s Anarsia candida to the genus Dactylethra, but 
1 have described one true Indian Anarsia, ephippias, Meyr.; I now describe 
eight more, and refer one of Walker's species here. 
Anarsia phortica, n. 8p. 
3 Q. 13-15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, variably irrorated 
with grey. Palpiin ¢ dark fuscous, in Q whitish, second joint irrorated 
with dark fuscous, terminal joint with blackish subbasal ring and submedian 
and supramedian subconfluent bands. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 
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