﻿Apr. 23, 1906.J Indian Micro-Lepidopiera. 'taT' 



Hind-wings grey, rather darker posteriorly ; a short subdorsal groove and 

 marginal thickening from base, clothed with hairs, with a projecting marginal 

 hairpencil from near base ; cilia grey. 



Two specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February (de Mowbray, Alston). 



Eucosma leticaspis, Weyr. •. ■•. i c? V 



Maskeliya, Madulsima, Matale, and Puttalam, Ceylon, in May, October, and 

 Nove mber (Pole, Vaughan). 



Epiblema oclacUas, n. sp. h- /7"7 



^ 9« 18 — 26 mm. Head white, sides of crown and a frontal bar black. 

 Palpi black, white above and at apex. Antennae blackish-grey. Thorax white, 

 shoulders and a posterior bar black. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost 

 straight, hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; white ; markings dark leaden- 

 fuscous, irregularly suffused or marked with black, sharply defined ; a zigzag 

 streak from base of costa through disc, angulated thrice downwards and twice 

 upwards, terminating on costa before apex ; in ^ costal area as far as this 

 streak from base to beyond middle wholly blackish, in $ with a small wedge- 

 shaped black costal spot at ^, and a larger subquadrate one beyond middle, 

 each preceded by a black strigula ; two posterior black costal strigulse ; four 

 irregular dorsal spots, second sometimes connected with middle angle of median 

 streak ; an irregular spot near termen below middle, often confluent with me- 

 dian streak near its extremity : cilia white, beneath tornua blackish. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, lighter towards base ; cilia grey-whitish, with grey bnsal line. 



Seven specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March, May, July, August, October, 

 and November (de Mowbray, Pole, Green). 



Phaloniad.e. 

 Meridarchis, Zell. 



This genus, founded by Zeller on the Indian trapeziella, and attributed by 

 him to the Gelechiadm, is, I find, so close to TnJom'ca, Meyr., that it will be 

 better at present to treat tbem as identical and sink the latter name, although it 

 is possible that the small structural differences existing may ultimately involve 

 their separation. The types of Meridarchis and Trihonica, and the two addi- 

 tional species now described, agree together, and are distinguished from alJ 

 nearly allied forms by the stalking of veins 8 and 9 of forewings. 



Meridarchis episacta, n. sp. 



^. 18 — 21 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less tinged with ochreous. 

 Palpi porrected, dark fuscous, second joint mixed with white above. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, not dilated, costa arched 

 towards base, thence nearly straight, apex round-pointed, termen sinnate, 

 oblique ; 3 and 4 separate ; white ; a black basal patch, edge parallel to 

 termen ; a black subdoraal scaletuft at ^ ; a trapezoidal black patch extending 

 along costa from ^ to beyond |, rapidly narrowed downwards, reaching more 

 than half across wing, edged beneath with a few ochreous scales ; a black 

 Birigula on dorsum at f, almost conuecled with costal patch ; a small blackish 



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