﻿August Ifj, I'JO'J.j Ueitci-f/iUuns of /iiilimi Micro, LephJoptera. 4%'^ 



Patipola, Ceylon, iu April (Alston) ; one specimen. Allied to some Austra- 

 lian and New Zealand forms. 



MICROPTERYGID^. 



The interesting species described below is the fii-st member of this 

 primitive family recorded from the Indian region ( for Walker's Micropteryx 

 acutipmnis and M. uniceUa have no real connection with the family, being 

 normal Tineidce), but since the family is characteristic of Europe and New 

 Zealand, I have little doubt that it has been overlooked in India, and will bo 



found to be fairly represented. The species are_ugua lly small (the one described -^ 



below is the largest known), very difficult to see on the wing, and liable to be J^- •^3t> 



mistaken for Trichoptera (caddis files), to which in fact they are nearly 

 related. They should be looked for probably in damp but open forests of 

 Conifers at high elevations, especially in the spring. /^ 



Neopseustij, n. g. ' 



Head with short loose hairs ; ocelli present ; tongue short. Antennae \ 

 filiform, with appressed hairscales, basal joint moderate. Tabial palpi moderate, 

 porrected, filiform, with appressed scales. Maxillary palpi long, several-jointed 

 filiform, folded. Abdomen stout, swollen posteriorly. Posterior tibite with 

 appressed scales, spurs short. Forewings clothed with hairs, but with- scattered 

 scales on anterior half; \b connected with lower margin of cell by bar towards 

 base, \c weak, appearing to rise fi-om upper end of this bar, parting-vein 

 connected with lower margin of cell by bar towards base (besides the bar 

 forming posterior wall of cell), 2 and 3 stalked from angle of cell, 4 rising 

 from parting-vein, which itself forms cell-wall for a considerable distance 

 beyond the second bar, 5 and 6 stalked from angle made by parting vein, with 

 bar above it, 7 and 8 stalked from upper angle of cell, 7 to apex, i) out of stalk 

 of 7 and 8 near base, 10 absent, 11 from rather beyond middle of cell, 12 

 connected with costa by a bar in middle, Hindwings more rounded than fore- 

 wings posteriorly, clothed with hairs : \h connected with Ic by bar near base, 

 posterior cell-wall normal in form, 2 remote, 3 from angle, 4 from above angle, 

 5 and 6 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked from upper angle, 9 out of stalk of 7 and 8 

 near base, 10 absent, 11 from § of cell, 12 simple. 



Slightly more specialised than the European Eriscrania, to which it is most 

 related. 



Neopseustis calliglauca, n. sp. 



^, 20 mm. Head pale ochreous, with some dark fuscous hairs. Labial 

 palpi and antennas light fuscous. Maxillary palpi pale ochreous. Thorax pale 

 brownish-ochreous, with some silvery-white scales. Abdomen light yellow- 

 ochreous, appearing broad and subtruncate posteriorly, with upper and lower 

 lips, upper with sexual organs strongly depressed, lower short. Forewings 

 subovate, moderately broad, costa strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded 

 rather strongly oblique ; whitish ; a fuscous patch covering anterior portion of 

 win» and extending on costa to near middle and on dorsum to near tornus 

 irregularly marked with blackish fuscous transverse spots or bars between veins 



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