﻿Sept. 20, 1906.] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera . -4^ *T ' ^ 



TiNEID/E. 



Opostega frigida , n. sp, 



^ 9 . 4-6 mm. Head and thorax white. Antennae whitish-grey, basal 

 joint white. Abdomen grey. Anterior and middle tibise also bristly. Fore- 

 wings lanceolate ; shining white ; a narrow triangular or almost linear blackish 

 mark on costa at | : cilia light ochreous-grey, greyer towards tornus, on costa 

 with an oblique blackish median line to apex of wing, before this white, 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Eighteen specimens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, in February (Green). 



Opogona lachanltis, n. sp. 



$ $. 11-15 mm. Head, antennte, thorax and abdomen shining dark bronzy- 

 fuacous, face and palpi glossy whitish-ochreous, thorax posteriorly edged witk 



orange suffusion ; palpi Rtout, truncate. Forewings elongate, costa posteriorly h, 4)"7 



arched, apex acute, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; shining dark purplish* 

 bronzy-fuscous a broad suffused dull orange patch extending along dorsum from 

 base to beyond middle, towards extremity projecting triangularly upwards so as 

 nearly to touch costa : cilia rather dark bronzy-fuscous. Hindwings dark bronzy- 

 fuscous ; cilia rather dark bronzy-fuscous. 



Twenty specimens, Puttalam and Peradeniya, Ceylon, in January, March 

 and from September to November (Green, Pole). Larva feeding in fungus-beds 

 of the common Termite (Green) ; this curious habit should be further investi- 

 gated. The flattened coxae and femora appear to form a protective plating 

 of the sternum, which is probably connected with this mode of life. 



Monopis hemicitra, n. sp. 



$^. 15-20 mm. Head light ochreous-yellow, hairs in $ forming a flat 

 projecting ridge over palpi. Palpi dark fuscous, apex pale, terminal joint longer 

 in $. Antennae pale grey. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen pale yellow- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa strongly arched, apex pointed, termen very 

 obliquely rounded, more strongly in ^^ ; 2 and 3 out of 4, 7 and 8 long-stalked 

 or coincident ; blackish-brown ; several blackish-leaden raised scaletufts towards 

 Bubmedian fold ; a large irregular trapezoidal pale ochreous-yellow patch extend- 

 ing on costa from § to |, narrowed downwards, with a rounded projection on 

 lower side reaching |- across wing ; discal impression large, within this patch, 

 not transparent : cilia blackish-brown mixed with dark slaty-leaden. Hindwings 

 pale bronzy-ochreous, in $ suffused with grey ; cilia light ochreous-yellowish. 



Five specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole.) Very like monachella, 

 but abundantly distinct structurally by the different neuration (in monachella 

 2 is nearly or quite connate with stalk of 3 and 4, 6 and '7 are stalked, 

 8 separate), scaletufts on forewings, and facial tuft of $ ; the costal patch 

 of forewings is broader as well as yellower, and the projection on lower side 

 is less developed in monachella. 



" - Nemotois scitulellus, Walk. . 



{Glyphipteryx scitulella, Walk. Tin., 839 ; Nemotois corylantis, Meyr.) "B'J' XVI- t^'^ / 



I had missed Walker's type of this species. 



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