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Sept. 20, 1006.] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 403 



[^From the Journal op the Bombay Natural History Society, 



September 20, 1906.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



by 



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



II. 



{Continued from page 153 of this Vdume.) 



XYLORYCTIDiE, 



P,ookor,c,i.ancu,nas,n.s,. Tu^ " 



^9. '9^*^*^ ™™' Head whitish, sides brownish. Palpi pale ochreous, ^t^ iJTtvU <r« , ^ 

 terminal joint with anterior edge suEEuaed with dark fuscous. Antennte rather f 

 dark fuscous, poctinations blockish. Thorax white, sometimes brownish-tinged. ^/r 



Abdomen whitish, in $ with more or less developed ferruginous bands. L^V- NVin&W 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termea ./ . >> JL. -r^iy, 

 obliquely rounded ; 4 absent, 7 to costa ; shining white, towards dorsum and p rl 

 termen faintly ochreous-tinged ; a dark fuscous line posteriorly more or less ^'^ '" '^ ) 

 suffused with brownish, running from f of costa to dorsum before tornus, JViL -j^vfT' £, 

 strongly rounded-angulated in middle so as to approach termen, more or less ' -7 



obsolete or interrupted on angle, subsinuate inwards on lower half and be- 

 commg stronger and darker towards dorsum ; sometimes a faint brownish 

 longitudinal mark in disc preceding this line ; a more or less marked dark 

 fuscous marginal line round apex : cilia white, round apex with a dark fuscous 

 median line interrupted beneath apex, and tips fuscous-tinged. Hindwings 

 ochreous-whitish or pale whitish-ochreous-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Seven specimens, Maskeliya a»4 Pattalam, Ceylon, from January to May 

 (Pole, de Mowbray, Alston) ; ttb^-siugle Puttalam specimen is muciju-tbe^sm allyst. ' 

 This species differs from the others in the neural characters specified, but 

 is otherwise nearly related, and does not at present seem to require generic 

 separation. 



Ptochoryctis scionota, n. sp. 



^. 16-17 mm. Head and palpi white. Antennae white, ringed and 

 towards apex suffused with grey, pectinations blackish. Thorax white, posteri- 



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