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Arcrolepia nityodes, n. sp. 
7”. I1mm. Head and thorax brownish mixed with black. 
Palpi brownish, suffusedly banded with dark fuscous irroration. 
Antennae fuscous ringed with black. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, narrow, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly 
arched, apex round-pointed, termen almost straight, very oblique ; 
light brownish, with a faint violet tinge, irregularly mixed and 
striguiated with black; costa marked with longer black strigulae ; » 
a dorsal patch of three white strigulae before middle; a whitish 
line from 3 of costa to tornus, margined anteriorly by a blackish- 
fuscous patch on upper half; three white strigulae from costa 
between this and apex; a small blackish spot towards termen in 
middle: cilia whitish-grey, with two blackish-grey lines. Hind- 
wings ovate-lanceolate, pale grey, suffused with dark grey towards 
termen and apex; cilia grey. 
Parasnath, W. Bengal, 4,300 feet, in April (Annandale); one 
specimen, Allied to the European pygmacana, but I have a Ceylon 
species still more like the European form, though certainly 
distinct. 
Plutella maculipennis, Curt. 
Purneah district and Rajmahal (Annandale), Bengal. 
TINEIDAE. 
Nepticula ovitis, n. sp. 
@. 5mm. Head and eyecaps pale whitish-yellow, antennae 
and thorax dark leaden-fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Fore- 
wiugs lanceolate ; blackish; a rather broad little oblique shining 
white fascia beyond middle: cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Phagu, Simla Hills, 9,000 feet, in May (Annandale); one 
specimen, in fine condition. 
Orostega chalcophylla, un. sp. 
7 ¢. 7-10 mm, Head and eyecaps shining whitish, some- 
times ochreous-tinged, antennae ochreous-grey. Thorax shining 
bronze. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate ; 
shining bronze, with greenish or purplish reflections, variable in 
depth of colouring: cilia pale bronzy-ochreous. Hindwings and 
cilia grey or dark grey. 
Kurseong, E. Himalayas, 5,000 feet, in September (Annan- 
dale); Khasi Hills ; six specimens. 
CLEADARODES, meee 
Head smooth, with rough frontal tuft ; ocelli present ; tongue 
absent. Antennae *, in @ simple, basal joint dilated into a large 
oblong eyecap. Labial palpi moderate, filiform, drooping. Maxil- 
lary palpi rather long, several-jointed, filiform. Posterior tibiae 
