﻿Feb. 15, 1907.] Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. 746- 



Coriscium hieranthes, n. sp, lunv^ft'Vuii ^ 



$ 9. 10-11 mm. Head white, crown yellowish-tinged, collar pale crimson. k^CM^fyjy^ 

 Palpi pale crimson, terminal joint of labial yellowish-white, Antennee light ^ uLt^''^^) 

 ochreous, basal joint yellowish-white. Thorax crimson, posterior third white, ^ ^ j,,, ., n^-. 



Abdomen grey. Legs yellowish ringed with dark grey, Forewings sublinear, ^''^' - ^ 



slightly narrowed posteriorly, shortly round-pointed ; crimson ; markings 



pale yellow, finely edged with blackish ; a dot on costa near base, a curved 



oblique mark from costa at i, four approximated oblique parallel-sided marks J*-J'^h 



from costa between | and |, and four semi-oval equidistant dorsal spots ; a 



round almost apical fuscous spot, centred with black, and edged beneath by a 



white mark : cilia grey, at apex yellow with basal third crimson, above apex 



with a dark grey hook. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in August ; two specimens (de Mowbray). 



Conopomorpha\\isoc?iorda, n. sp. » ^xV 



^9. 6-7 mm. Head and thorax greyish-bronze, face white. Palpi white. r I JTia* ^ 



Antennae grey ringed with white, beneath white. Abdomen grey. Forewinws ^^^^ ^^ 



linear, pointed ; bronzy-grey ; costal edge whitish ; a series of oblique cloudy fv J.KVill- ^^V 

 pale ochreous strigae from dorsum, becoming obsolete towards costa • a fine ^•~- 

 whitish line from tornus to near apex ; a dark grey prseapical dot, extreme apex 

 ferruginous-orange : cilia ochreous-whitish, basal third light shining rosy-purple 

 edged by a deep violet line. Hindwings grey ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon ; twenty specimens (Green). Larva mines in young 

 leaves of ebony, Diospyros emhhjopteris (Green). Owing to the extreme 

 slenderness and delicacy of the wings the neuration proved very diflBcuIt to 

 ascertain, but in a denuded specimen the forewing appeared to be as follows • 

 \b simple, 2 from ^, 4 and 5 approximated from angle, 6 and 8 long-stalked, 6 to 

 termen, 7 absent, 9 and 10 from near 8, 11 absent. 



Zelleria petrias, n, sp. 



^ 9- 20-21 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish -ochreous, more or less 

 mixed with fuscous. Palpi fuscous, mixed with whitish-ochreous towards 

 apex of joints. Antennae grey. Abdomen gi'ey, apex ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, somewhat 

 produced, termen sinuate, extremely oblique ; 4 and 5 separate ; light grey • 

 four longitudinal series of minute black dots, first subcostal, not reaching 

 beyond middle, others fairly complete ; an oblique spot of blackish-grey 

 suffusion above dorsum at f, and some undefined dark fuscous scales in disc 

 at middle and | : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, on costa mixed with dark grey, 

 at apex with a blackish basal dot. Hindwings light grey, with a small trans- 

 parent basal patch ; cilia whitish-ochreous-grey. 

 Simla, in April and May ; two specimens (Nurse). 



Yponomeuta melanaster , n. sp, 



$ 9. 20-24 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax grey ; thorax with 

 two black dots on shoulders, four on back, and one on posterior extremity. 

 Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 



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