﻿Nov. 15, 1908.] Indmn Micro -Uphhptera. ^ifb 



cilia dark grey, round apex whitish with two black lines, inner metallic-blaish 

 at apex. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia dark grey, 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon, in September (Green) ; one specimen. 

 Epicphala exetastis, n. sp. 



^. 14 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, mixed with dark fuscous exter- 

 nally. Antennae grey. Thorax whitish, sides fuscous. Abdomen grey, apex 

 whitish-ochreous. beneath whitish with oblique dark fuscous rings. Legs 

 whitish, ringed with blackish -grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate, moder- 

 ately pointed, apex round-pointed ; light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous ; a 

 slender whitish streak along dorsum from base to tornus ; an oblique whitish 

 _streak from beyond middle of this, and two parallel oblique whitish streaks^ 



from tornus, not reaching half across wing ; short oblique whitish strigulaa Jt^^ S(Z 



from cosLa before and beyond middle, and five whitish cloudy dots or marks 

 on costa between these and metallic line ; some suffused whitish irroration in 

 disc beneath these ; a nearly straight transverse silvery-metallic line at |, apical 

 are a brownish-ochreous, edged beneath by a whitish wedge shaped mark reach- 

 ing apex and above by a shorter similar mark, between these anteriorly is a 

 transverse spot of blackish suffusion : cilia grey, round apex whitish with a fine 

 black subbasal line, edged anteriorly with silvery-metallic at apex, and a posterior 

 blackish apical hook. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in July (Pole) ; one specimen. 



Epicepliala frcnala , n. sp. 



(^$. 9-10 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous, white towards base and 

 apex. Antenn® grey. Thorax fuscous with white centi-al stripe. Abdomen 

 grey, beneath ochreous-whitish with lateral series of oblique grey lines, apex 

 ochreous-wbitish. Legs whitish spotted with dark grey. Forewings very 

 narrowly elongate, short-pointed, apex round-pointed ; rather dark fuscous ; a 

 white streak along dorsum from base to middle of termen, attenuated posterior- 

 ly, upper edge emitting a short oblique streak before middle of wing, and a pair 

 of longer oblique streaks from tornus reaching half across wing, before which 

 the streak itself is cut by a fine inwards-oblique line of ground colour ; three 

 usually very short oblique white streaks from costa before and beyond middle 

 and at |, sometimes reduced to dots, second sometimes longer ; a bent silvery- 

 metallic transverse line at |, area preceding this more or less irrorated with 

 whitish and blackish ; apical area ochreous-fuscous with a spot of dark fuscous 

 suffusion anteriorly, edged beneath by a wedge-shaped white mark, and above 

 by a shorter similar mark not reaching apex : cilia grey, round apex white with 

 a fine black subbasal line, at apex with a dark fuscous bar. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grfey. 



Puttalam and Ambulangoda, Ceylon, in November, February, and March 

 (Pole, Fletcher) ; nine specimens. Near alhistriatella, Turn., from Queensland 

 (hitherto placed in Acrocercops on account of the smoother head, but by the 

 palpi properly an Epicpphala), but differs by presence of the median branch of 

 dorsal streak, and less developed costal streaks. 



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