﻿J'dm 29, 1907,| Indian Micro-Jepidoptera, 99d 



Four specimens, Bombay, from December to February (Swinhoe, Young). 



ADELIDiE. 



Adela augantha, n. sp. 



$ . 17-19 mm. Head orange, face metallic-bronze. Palpi moderate, orange. 



Antennae whitish, becoming dark grey towards base. Thorax metallic bronze, 



striped with orange (imperfect). Abdomen dark fuscous. Posterior tibiaa 



___jellowish, apex dark fuscous, above with thin fringe of long hairs. Forewinga 



elongate, rather narrow, costa. gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very ob- J' '9^0 



liquely rounded ; 8 and 9 stalked ; orange ; markings prismatic leaden-metallic, 



edged with black ; a short slender streak on base of costa ; a median streak 



from base to \, upper edge angularly expanded in middle ; a narrow subdorsal 



streak from near base to middle ; two transverse spots from costa before and 



beyond middle, reaching nearly half across wing, and one from dorsum at § 



nearly reaching second costal ; an incm-ved streak from | of costa to tornus, 



nearly or quite interrupted in middle ; posterior area beyond this crossed by 



about seven black lines on veins : cilia dark brassy-grey, base more or less 



violet-metallic. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous, slightly purplish-tinged. 



Five specimens, Khasi Hills. 



Adda chalcomis, n. sp, 



$ 15-16 mm,, 9 12 mm. Head and thorax bright metallic brass. Palpi 

 very small, ochreous-whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, basal joint large, 

 coppery-pui-ple, brassy-scaled towards base. Abdomen dark fuscous. Posterior 

 tibias in $ above with a very long expansible fringe of ochreous-whitis-h hairs. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 separate ; shining coppery or purple ; a me- 

 tallic brassy ba^al pat.h occupying about \ of wing, containing a longitudinal 

 black mark above middle, and edged with black posteriorly and on dorsum ; 

 an undefined central fascia of black and pale yellowish irroration, narrowest 

 on dorsum ; an irregular similar patch towards apex: cilia fuscous suffused 

 with coppery-purple. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Six specimens, Maskeliya and Puttalam, Ceylon, in May, September, and 

 October (Pole), 

 JNemotois chionites, n. sp, 



$. 15-17 mm. Face white, crown with mixed black and whitish hairs. 

 Palpi moderately long, white, beneath black, with very long spreading white 

 and black hairs. Aatennae whitish, towards base thickened with metalhc blue- 

 blackish scales, above this a short space ringed with blackish. Thorax black- 

 ish, laterally with some whitish hairs. Abdomen blackish, anal tuft mixed with 

 white. Anterior and middle tibias and basal joint of anterior tarsi with spread- 

 ing tufts of white hairs ; posterior tibiae white with narrow black subapical 

 band, above with very long fringe of white hairs continued on first joint of tarsi 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa posteriorly moderately arched 

 apex obtuse, termen very obliquJy rounded ; 8 and 9 stalked ; bluish-white, 

 irrorated with black ; small snow-white spots on costa, at | and | ; a slender 



