﻿Feb, 15, 1907.] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera, -^34- 7*^^ 



undefined, fuscous and brown fascia from | of costa to before tornus, almost 

 interrupted beneath costa, broadest on lower half and somewhat marked with 

 black posteriorly ; a moderate round brown or fuscous spot towards apex, 

 marked with about 6 — 8 variable black dots ; a ferruginous-brown stria from 

 costa before apex to termen above tornus, preceded and followed by silvery- 

 leaden striaa from costa ; a small ferruginous-brown apical spot : cilia fuscous, 

 irrorated with white, with a white tornal patch, Hindwings with 3 and 4 long- 

 stalked ; grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with two grey shades. ^-^-"""iryi^l. 



Mhow, in June . four^ spechnens fSwinhoe). 

 'Ci/dia 'kijdonias, n. sp^ '>^^o.Cca ^ Uw - (Xu. "XTX ,4^1j - OjVvC^.M^. 



^ 9 . 22 — 24 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous, irrorated with fuscous- 

 whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat 

 dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique, 

 rounded beneath ; fuscous, all scales finely tipped with whitish, sometimes 

 with faint darker strigulse ; costal edge dark fuscous with pairs of oblique 

 whitish strigulge ; a rather oblique more or less dark fuscous irregular streak 

 from I of dorsum, reaching half across wing, sometimes almost wholly obsolete ; 

 a very oblique more or less defined fuscous mark from middle of costa, 

 extremity curved up to near costa at f ; an irregular fuscous spot in middle of 

 disc, partially marked with black and edged with whitish, two upper angles 

 produced into elongate lobes, so as to form a crescent concave above, sometimes 

 partially obsolete ; a strongly upcurved fuscous mark, edged with black and 

 then with whitish, from near posterior arm of this spot to middle of termen, 

 always well defined, from anterior extremity of which proceed one or two 

 darker strigas to tornus ; a small blackish-fuscous apical spot : cilia fuscous, 

 towards tornus whitish«fuscous, Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate ; fuscous, 

 darker towards termen ; cilia fuscous, with darker sub-basal line, 



Wellawaya, Ceylon (Green) ; Muok-lek, Siam (Swinhoe) ; in November and 

 January, seven specimens. 



Liispeyresia tricentra, n. sp. 



$ 9. 11-13 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, closely irrorated 

 with ochreous-grey-whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, lightly 

 dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, little oblique ; 

 rather dark fuscous, finely irrorated with ochreous-grey-whitish, with indis- 

 tinct darker transverse strias ; a series of short oblique dark fuscous strigae 

 from costa, alternating with bluish-Ieaden-metallic strigse which rise from 

 pairs of pale costal strigulse, becoming longer posteriorly ; a very faint hardly 

 paler slightly leaden-tinged subtriangular blotch on middle of dorsum ; ocellus 

 laterally margined with leaden-metallic, marked with three somewhat elongate 

 black dots touching posterior edge : cilia fuscous, irrorated with whitish. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter towards base ; cilia pale fuscous, with dark 

 fuscous basal line. 



Maskeliya, Peradeniya, and Puttalam, Ceylon ; Travancore, Mhow 

 Bombay, Poona (Pole, Green, Swinhoe); ten specimens. Larva feeds in stems of 



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