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 NoD. 15, 1908.] indi(iH JUicro-lepuhpterd. -Sal- 



ting on second joint, and tWo rings on terminal joint of dark fuscoUs ilroratioa. 

 Antennae vchite, faintly ringed with pale fuscous. Legs white, banded with pale 

 •Dchreous, first joint of anterior and middle tarsi with black apical band, middle 

 tibiae dilated With long spatulate scales. ForeWings very narrowly elongate- 

 lanceolate ; white ; five moderate slightly oblique pale ochreous-yellowish 

 fascia, sometimes fuscous-sprinkled, first basal, indistinct, third before middle 

 broadest ; between the fasciffi are two or three yellowish strigulas ; a black trans- 

 verse spot in disc at |, and another from costa close beyond it ; some fine black- 

 ish ifroration beyond these : cilia pale oohreous, towards tornus greyish-tinged i'- S20^ 

 outer half paler and sprinkled With fusoous irroration. Hind wings rather dark 

 .^rey ; cilia pale grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March, June, and September (Pole) ; three specimens. 



Macatostola leuCochorda , n. sp, 



9. 9 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint smooth-scaled, with upper 

 •edge dark grey, terminal joint longer than second, with anterior edge blackish, 

 .intennse dark fuscous, beneath white. Thorax dark bronzy grey, posterior 

 extremity white. Abdomen grey, beneath ochreous-whitish. Legs white 

 laanded with grey and blackish. Forewings very narrowly elongate parallel- 

 ^ided, moderately pt)inted ; dark bronzy-grey ; an evenly broad snow-white 

 Streak along dorsum from base almost to apex, its upper edge narrowly incised 

 about middle of terraen, its extremity dilated into a triangular projection, ed^ed 

 •above by a short black anteriorly white margined costal mark close before apex 

 X5f wing ; three fine longitudinal white lines from about | to opposite incision 

 of dorsal streak, uppermost costal, second curved up to costa anteriorly 

 lowest obsolescent anteriorly : cilia grey, white at base round apex and on a 

 small spot below apex, at apex with a blackish hook. Hindwings rather dark 

 grey ; cilia grey. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in June (Newcome) ; one specimen. 



Macarostola capnias, n. sp. 



^9. 6 mm. Head and thorax shining grey. Palpi whitish, second joint 

 with black apical band, terminal joint shorter than second, blackish with 

 white supramedian band. Antennae dark grey. Abdomen rather dark grey 

 beneath whitish. Legs whitish, lined and banded with blackish. Forewinga 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate, acute ; rather dark ashy-grey, with a slif^ht 

 purplish tinge ; apical area suffused with ochreous ; a fine oblique transverse 

 Whitish line at f ; two pairs of whitish strigulas on costa towards apex last 

 margining a small round black apical spot : cilia grey, beneath apex with 

 a patch of oohreous suffusion, round apex with two blackish lines. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March (Pole) ; two specimens. 



Macarostola perisphena , Meyr. 



{Gracilaria perisphetia, Meyr., Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc, XVI, 613.) 



I have this also from Diyatalawa. Ceylon, and the Nilgiri Hills, in May 

 and August. 



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