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J«nc 29, 1007,] Indian Mlcro-lepidoptera. 976 



\^P\om the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 



June 29, 1907.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO- LEFIDOPTERA. 



BY 



E. MbYRICK, B.A., P.R.S., F.E.S. 



IV. 



{Continued from page 754 of this Volume.) 



C^C^fyyy^^S^ (yz EPIBLEMIDiE, 



Lobesia ceolopa, n. sp. 



$ 9- 10-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown. Abdo- 

 men dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow at base, gradually dilated, costa 

 slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; pale oclireoua, 

 with a few scattered blackish strigute ; costa strigulated with blackish ; basal 

 patch irregularly suffused with brown sprinkled with blackish, outer edge 

 obtusely angulated in middle, followed on dorsum by a dark grey triangular 

 blotch reaching more than half across wing ; central fascia brown, mixed with 

 blackish on upper half, posterior edge with a large irregular prominence below 

 middle ; a small dark fuscous spot on costa at §, surrounded with some brown 

 suffusion ; a more or less defined triangular spot of dark grey suffusion on 

 dorsum before tornus, whence an irregular line of blackish grey scales proceeds 

 towards costa ; a suboval brown transverse blotch resting on lower half of 

 termen ; a email brown apical spot : cilia pale ochreous, with a brown basal line. 

 HindwingH dark grey, in ^ thinly scaled throughout, in $ towards base only ; 

 oilia grey, with darker basal line. 



Ten specimens, Maskeliya and Peradeniya, Ceylon ; Bombay ; from Novem- 

 ber to May (Pole, Green, Young). Closely related and similar to the European 

 L. inrmixtana , but in that species the $ has white hindwings. Veins 3 and 

 4 of hindwings appear to be connate in $ but closely approximated in 9 . 



Articolla, n. g. 



Antennae in ^ simple. Palpi moderate, porrected, densely scaled. Thorax 

 with posterior crest. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough projecting scales 

 above and beneath. Forewings with small tufts of raised scales ; 8 and 9 

 stalked. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 5 approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Allied to Platyj)eplu s, from which it differs by the stalking of 8 and 9 of nVfyt^i^f^ ^ 

 forewings, '" 



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