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Jjpr, 23, 1906,3 Indian MkrO'Lep'ulopkta, 133 



£is>(?»e tke Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 



April 23, 1906.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



By 



E, MeYRIGK, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S, 

 II. 



Thanks to the energy of the Micro-Lepidopterists of Ceylon, I have 

 now received a considerable quantity of material from tliat iskind, and 

 the present paper is mainly devoted to a selection from it. I am 

 indebted for these valuable contributions to Messrs. J. Pole, of Maske- 

 liya ; E. E. Grean, of Peradeniya ; G. B. de Mowbray, of Maskeliya ; 

 O, C. Alston, of Maskeliya ; and W. Vaughan, of Madulsima. 



I have had some instructioiis for collectors printed, and shall bs 

 pleased to send a copy to any collector in the Indian region who will 

 send me his address. 



Seventeen genera and seventy-six ?pecies are hero described as new, 

 and some other species are recorded from the region for the first time, 



Orneodid^, 

 C - Onieodes loy>opMla, n, sp. 



^ . 15—16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi with appressed scales, "white 

 towards base sprinkled with fuscous. Antennse ochreous-whitish, basal joint 

 white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, Forewings ochreous-whitish, crossed by 

 ill-defined light yellow-ochreoua bands before and beyond middle, and a narrow 

 curved darker central fascia, sometimes partially speckled with dark fuscous 

 not reaching sixth segment, separated from them by fine lines of ground colour ; 

 sometimes a few fine blackish specks on segments ; sometimtjs a faint yellowish 

 aubterminal line. Hindwings as forewings, but central fascia fuscous, sprinkled 

 with blackish, entire, dark specks on segments rather more numerous, subter- 

 minal line sometimes greyi^ towards dorsum. 



Four specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in April and June (de Mowbray). 

 n ^ Orneodes sycophanta, n. sp. 



^ 9. 15— 18 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi smooth-scaled, white, apex 

 of basal and second joints and subapical ring of terminal joint dark fuscous. 

 Antennae stout, serrate, whitish-ochreoua, basal joint white. Abdomen white, 



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