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 ■^une 29, 1907.^ indian Micro-Iepidoptcra. 9'8I 



gradually pointed ; dark greyish-ochretjus, with prismatic violet or blue reflec- 

 tions, strewn with numerous small fine blackish dots or strigulas in longitudinal 

 series ; larger blackist dots above dorsum before middle, and on costa in 

 tfliddle ; apex mottled with blackish : cilia grey, round apex with several rows 

 •of black points. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Six specimens, Maskeliya and Kandy, Ceyldn, in May, June ami September 

 (Pole, <ie Mowbray, Green). ^^ta t-^ v-t-n«»<«-^^ i Xw, avUI. gt^y 



Gracilaria syrphetiaa , n. sp. p-i?^ 



i$ $. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax light metallic greyish-bronze, face paler. 

 i*alpi pale ochreous, suffusedly banded witli blackisia irroration. Antennse ^^ j[^ 'P-T 

 pale ochreous ringed with blackish. Abodraen shining dark grey, apex whitish- 

 -ochreous. Middle tibifB bronzy-grey, thickened above 'with blackish scales., >• ' " 

 tarsi ochreous-whitish. Forewings sublinear, parallel-sided, moderately point- 

 'cd ; ochreous, densely and irregularly strigulated and mottled throughout 

 with dark purple-fuscou« : ciiia dark grey, round apex with rows of blackish <, 

 points. HmSwings and cilia dark grey. ''^ -o,'W5n»*?4 



Four specinaens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in July and October (Pole). Very '*' '<'H*«'-t4< ^A'^* 

 similar to the Australian G. eurycnema, but darker and much narrower-winded 

 ^and without the long hairpencils beside abdomen, 



Argijresthla icterias, n. sp. 



(^9. 8-10 mm. Head white, face tinged with ochreous-yellowish. Palpi 

 light ochreous. Antenna whitish-ochreous ringed with blackish. Thorax 

 white, patagia golden-bronze. Abdomen pale silvery -grey, Forewings narrow., 

 ■elongate-lanceolate ; 7 and 8 separate ; whitish-brown, tinged with coppery- 

 purplish, darker towards basfe, strigulated throughout with dark fuscous ; an 

 •irregular attenuated white streak along dorsum to tornus, in $ little defined 

 •and suffused into ground colour, strigulated with dark fuscous, interrupted 

 'opposite middle of wing by a subquadrate dark fuscous spot ; sometimes some 

 irregular white marks along termen, and dots on eosta posteriorly : cilia 

 Vhitish-grey, round apex purplish-tinged and with rows 'of black points, 

 llindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Sixteen specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from February to June (Pole, de 

 Mowbray). 



Xyrosaris maligna, n, sp. 



^$. 12-14 mm. Head, palpi, and tborax white, finely irrorated with 

 tuscous or dark fuscous. Antennas and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 Very narrow, gradually narrowed from before middle, apex round-pointed ^ 

 light brownish, irregularly or wholly suffused with grey and whitish scales fitiely 

 tipped with blackish, and strewn with minute raised black dots ; indistinct 

 Bpots of dark fuscous suffusion on costa and dorsum before middle, and on 

 'dorsum towards tornus ; an interrupted transverse ridge of blackish scales &\ 

 I ; apex brownish with a slight reddish tinge : cilia grey, ronnd apex Witii 

 •several black lines. Hindwings dark grey, basal third and cell transparen» ;; 

 cilia grey. 



