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Feb. 15, 1907,] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 730 



[_Fmn the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Sociliy, 



February 15, 1907.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



by 



E. MbYRIOK, B.A., P.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 III. 

 {Continued from page 417 of this Volume.) 

 Besides previously mentioned contributors, I have received material 

 through the kindness of Major C. G. Nurse and Colonel C. Swinhoe, 

 and also some obtained by native collectors in the Khasi Hills, a por- 

 tion of which is included in the present instalment, as well as some 

 sent by the Calcutta Museum, mostly collected by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. 

 Sixteen genera and sixty-one species are described as new. 



Ptebophorid^. 

 Exelastis, n, g. 



Face smooth. Palpi moderate, slender, ascending, pointed. Tibise slender, 

 smooth. Forewings cleft from |_f, segments narrow, pointed, sometimes' 

 broader in 9 ; 2 from near angle, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 5 and 6 very 

 short, 7 from near upper angle, 8 and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 11 from near angle. 

 Hindwings cleft firstly from i, secondly from near base, segments very narrow', 

 pointed, without scale-tooth in dorsal cilia ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 stalked from 

 angle, 5 and 6 absent. 



Type E. atomosa, Wals. To this genus I also refer lioijlianes, Meyr., hitherto 

 included in 3Iarasmarcha. 



Exelastis atomosa, Wals. 



{Aciptilia atomosa, Wals., Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, 885.) 



The larva feeds in pods of Cajanus indkus, and has been bred freely by Mr, 

 H. Maxwell-Lefroy. In this species the forewings are deeply cleft and the 

 segments shorter and broader in the $ than in the ^— an unusual circumstance. 



Okneooid^. 



Orneodes ochrozona, n. sp. 



^9. 19-22 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi long, whitish-ochreous, second and terminal joints each with 

 two bands of dark fuscous irroration, second joint with projecting scales above 



