﻿8lt) Journ., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XV III., No. 4, [Nov. 15, 1908. 



base ; a fine longitudinal dash in disc near base ; three fine oblique streaks from 

 dorsum to fold, first united with a reverse oblique streak in disc to 

 form an acute angle ; a dot on dorsum before tornus ; a small oblique spot on 

 middle of costa, beneath which is sometimes a dot in disc ; three elongate marks 

 along termen, third apical and largest ; cilia light yellow-ochreous, basal half 

 ferruginous-fulvous. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Khasi Hills, in October ; ten specimens. 



GRACILARrAD^. 



In a recent paper (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S, Wales, 1907, pp. 47 — 68) I recast 

 the classification of Gracilaria and its immediate allies, and I now give an 

 arrangement of the Indian species on the same system. 



Lithocolletis triarcha, n. sp. 



9 . 5 ram. Head bronzy-ochreous mixed with white, face white. Palpi 

 white ; maxillary palpi minute, distinct, porrected. Antennae whitish spotted 

 with dark grey. Thorax bronzy-ochreous, with a rather broad white median 

 transverse bar. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish-oohreous. Legs white, banded 

 with dark fuscous irroration. Forewings lanceolate ; bronzy-ochreous ; an 

 extremely short white median basal streak, edged with black beneath, three 

 narrow rather inwards-oblique white fascia), finely edged with black irroration 

 anteriorly, and with a few black scales in disc posteriorly, very slightly angulated 

 near costa ; from third fascia above middle proceeds a fine white downwards- 

 curved streak to costa just before apex, edged beneath with black irroration : 

 cilia bronzy-ochreous, above apex with a white patch, on upper part of termen 

 irrorated with black towards base, towards tornus pale grey. Hindwings pale 

 grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Pusa, Bengal ; one specimen, bred in August from cotton (Gossypium) 

 (Maxwell Lefroy.) 



EpicepJiala, Meyr. 



The rough head is not always a well-marked character, the hairs of the crown 

 being sometimes loosely appressed. The straight palpi are a good character, in 

 all species except ^o^reWaf a, in which they are somewhat curved. The species 

 are closely allied an«l often similar. 



Epicephala chalyhacma, n. sp. 



$. 9 mm. Head ochreous- whitish mixed with grey. Palpi whitish, second 

 joint externally with a dart fuscous median longitudinal line. Antennaa 

 whitish-grey. Thorax grey. Abdomen dark grey, beneath ochreous- whitish 

 with lateral series of oblique dark fuscous lines. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior and middle pairs longitudinally Uned with blackish, posterior tarsi 

 obliquely banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrowly elongate, short- 

 pointed, apex obtuse ; grey, veins more or less distinctly marked with fine black 

 sines ; two indistinct oblique lines of dark fuscous scales from costa at A and f 

 and a slender very oblique streak from tornus indicated by blackish margins ; 

 a rather oblique transverse bluish-silvery-metallic line near before apex, edged 

 with dark fuscous ; blackish antcapical and apical spots on costa beyond this : 



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