﻿Nov. 12, 1907.] Indian Micro- Lepldoptera. 140 



.Enarmonia melanacta, n. sp, 



^. 14-16 mm. Head and palpi dark grey, palpi curved, ascending, 

 smooth-scaled. Thorax dark grey mixed with black, posterior half of patagia 

 and a posterior spot white. Abdomen rather dark grey. Posterior tibisc 

 clothed with long rongh expansible hairs above. Forewings elongate, costa 

 slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; 

 yellowish-white, somewhat marked with pale yellow on margins of dark 

 markings ; costa spotted with black ; a thick black zigzag streak above middle 

 from base to apex, angulated thrice downwards and twice upwards, upper 

 angulations suffused into dark leaden-grey costal blotches on basal fourth 

 and beyond middle, lower edge towards tornus irregular and mixed with 

 leaden-grey ; two large trapezoidal black spots on dorsum at ^ and before 

 tornus ; a pale yellow angulated striga from | of costa to tornus, interrupted 

 by the black streak : cilia yellowish-white, with blackish bars in middle of 

 termen and at apex. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Khasi Hills, in June ; three specimens. The palpi are peculiar, but do not 

 seem here to be of more than specific value. 



Emima, n. g. 



Antennae in $ stout, serrulate, pubescent. Palpi moderate, porrected 

 second joint with expanded scales towards apex. Thorax smooth. Forewings 

 in $ without fold, termen sinuate ; 3 and 4 curved and approximated 

 throughout, 5 absent, 7 and 8 stalked. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked 5 

 closely approximated at base, 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base. 



Allied to Ci/dia but characterised by the peculiar neuration. 



Erimea chlorantha, n. sp. 



^9. 17-21 mm. Head grey-M'hitish, sides mixed with blackish. Palpi 

 blackish-grey, apex of joints whitish. Thorax olive-greenish somewhat mixed 

 with whitish, on shoulders and posteriorly mostly suffused with bl.ick. Ab- 

 domen grey. Posterior tibise in ^ with brush of dense long projecting scales 

 on basal half beneath. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen shghtly sinuate, somewhat oblique ; pale grey or 

 whitish, irregularly mixed with olive-green ; markings purplish-grey or fuscous, 

 irregularly edged and mixed with blackish ; seven irregular costal spots, 

 first with an angulated streak extending to dorsum forming edo-e of basal 

 patch, second extended as an irregular fascia to dorsum before middle, thence 

 angulated upwards to disc beyond middle, and again downwards to near 

 tornus ; some small scattered variable black marks on costa and dorsum and 

 in disc ; an irregular blotch towards apex : cilia whitish, somewhat mixed 



with grey and olive-greenish. Hindwings grey ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal 

 line. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, from December to April ; nine specimens (Pole, de 

 Mowbray). 



Tmetocera calceata, n. sp. 



(J$. 14-18 mm. Head ochroous-whitc. Palpi whitish irroratcd with groy. 



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