eit] NOTH SYN D DESCRIPTIONS OF 
END TAN MECRO-LE:PIDOP TER A 
ii He OH VRICK, A.) EROS: 
The specimens on which the following notes and descriptions 
are based were submitted to me by the authorities of the Indian 
Museum, and the types of the new species are in the collection of 
the Museum, but cotypes of the majority are also in my own 
collection. 
PTEROPHORIDAE. 
Oxyptilus praedator, n. sp 
@. 12mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, metathorax and 
undersurface white. Palpi slender, curved, acute, dark fuscous 
mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, white beneath, except 
towards apex. Forewings cleft from 2, segments moderate, second 
dilated posteriorly, termen of first sinuate, of second concave , 
bronzy-blackish ; some very undefined light suffusion towards base 
of first segment, and a faint whitish-fuscous subterminal line on 
both segments: cilia whitish, with two blackish patches on termen 
of each segment, dark fuscous on posterior half of both segments 
above and beneath, with two black scale-teeth on dorsum in 
middle and before cleft. Hindwings blackish, third segment very 
short and slender ; cilia rather dark grey with rosy reflections, on 
dorsum of third segment with a very small black scale-tooth close 
before apex. 
Sukna, E. Himalayas, 500 feet, in July (Annandale); one 
specimen. Apparently nearest to O. vaughani from Ceylon, but 
that species has a broad white band on basal portion of abdomen. 
Platyptilia gonodactyla, Schiff. 
Darjiling, E. Himalayas, 7,000 feet, in August (Paiva); two 
specimens, apparently in no respect different from European. I 
have it also from Rawalpindi. 
PHALONIADAE. 
Phaloma manniana, F.R. 
Bosondhur, Khulna district, Ganges delta, at light, in August 
(Jenkins); I have it also commonly from Ceylon. There is some 
individual variability, but no constant difference from the Euro- 
pean form ; it is a very wide-ranging insect. 
