﻿Augiisi 15, 1909.] DescripUom of Indian Micfo-Lepidoplera. -4*6^ 



Allied to hilarographa, of which it appears to be a development. 



Jridostoma ichthyopa, n, sp. 



9. 12 mm. Head dark fuscous, sides of crown and a central line pale 

 yellowish, face grey, becoming whitish beneath. Palpi violet-whitish becoming 

 blue-grey towards apex of second joint, terminal joint dark grey with whitish 

 lateral lines. Antennae dark fuscous^ Thorax dark fuscous, shoulders suffused 

 with yellowish, margins of patagia leaden-grey. Abdomen dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 somewhat sinuate, rather oblique ; dark fuscous ; a narrow ochreous-orange 

 streak along fold from base to |, and aviolet_darkredged streak above it 

 extending to middle, m.argined alaove by an ochreous-yellow streak, four f' ^2k9 



ochreous-yellow streaks from dorsum terminating in posterior portion of this 

 violet streak, first incurved ; two oblique violet streaks from costa at ^ and ^ 

 curved at extremities so as to meet in middle of disc, enclosing an ochreous- 

 yellow dot above the loop ; two violet lines rising together from a white dot on 

 costa at I and running to dorsum posteriorly, fii-st nearly straight, second 

 strongly curved outwards in disc so as to enclose a space in which are two 

 longitudinal ochreous-yellow marks ; a rather curved violet line from a white 

 dot on costa at \ to dorsum before tornus ; a narrow fulvous-yellow fascia 

 round apex and along termen to tornus, enclosing a series of seven black dots, 

 of which the uppermost is large and subtriangular, the second blue-centred : 

 cilia violet, tips coppery on lower part of termen. Hindwings dark fuscous, 

 cilia whitish-grey, with a dark fuscous basal line, tips pale violet. 



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



Hilarograplia hermatodes, n. sp. 



9. 17 mm. Head golden-yellowish. Palpi yellowish, second joint with a 

 fuscous median band. Antennee fuscous. Thorax bronzy-fuscous, patagia 

 orange-red edged with leaden-grey. Abdomen pale ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous. Forewmgs elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex 

 r-ounded-obtuse, termen hardly oblique, rather deeply sinuate beneath apex ; 

 7 and 8 separate ; very deep reddish-orange ; markings dark leaden, costal edge 

 between them yellow ; supramedian, plical, subdorsal, and dorsal streaks from 

 base, all except dorsal terminated in an incurved transverse streak from 

 dorsum before middle, not reaching beyond uppermost, dorsal extended fur- 

 ther, base yellowish between them ; six streaks from costa, first three rather 

 broad, first from near base, first two abruptly angulated round apex of supra- 

 median streak and continued as incurved lines to near dorsum where they 

 unite, third receiving above middle five similar paralleled lines from dorsum, the 

 first of which is dilated on fold and contains two dots of ground colour, fourth 

 and fifth costal streaks approximated and continued as a single sinuate blackish 

 line to tornus, sixth light blue and recurved to a yellow dot on costa close 

 before apex, inside this loop is a yellow wedgeshaped costal mark ; four 

 blackish dots near termen on lower half ; a violet-blue mark along termen 

 below middle, its terminal edge finely pale yellow : cilia shiniag leaden-grey, 



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