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 "Nevtmber 15,1909.] Descriptions of Indian Micro-LepidopteYa. §06^ 



Khasis, from June to September ; twenty specimens. Variable, but always 

 without definite white longitudinal streak, though the dark suffusion marking 

 its lower margin is often strongly expressed ; forewings more pointed than 

 usual, as in Metriacma, but termen less oblique than in that species, and palpi 

 much shorter, 



Bactra phenacistis, n. sp. 



<J 9' 14-19 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, faintly brownish-tinged. Palpi 

 2\, whitish-ochreous, with a more or less wide oblique median bar of dark fus- 

 cous suffusion. . Thorax pale ochreous, sometimes brownish-tinged, with some 

 dots of dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen whitish fuscous. Forewings elongate 

 rather narrow, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; pale ochreous, more or less tinged or suffused 

 with ferruginous-brown, sometimes mixed or suffusedly strigulated with 

 whitish on dorsal half ; costa with about eight pairs of rather long oblique 

 silvery- whitish strigulffi more or less mixed with leaden-grey, alternating with 

 indistinct strigulce of blackish irroration ; a longitudinal whitish streak above 

 middle from base to apex, cut obliquely by one or two dark veins posteriorly, (r 



and margined beneath by much blackish suffusion especially on veins, 

 often with a distinct white projection downwards on transverse vein ; veins 

 from cell posteriorly marked by lines of blackish suffusion ; dorsum dotted with 

 black and white ; cilia grey somewhat mixed with ochreous-brownish, with rows 

 of white and blackish points. Hindwings grey, rather darker towards apex ; 

 cilia whitish-grey, with two grey lines, 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, from November to May (Pole, de Mowbray, Alston) ; 

 seven specimens, 



Bactra truculenta, n. sp, 



^. 15-17 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous, somewhat mixed 

 with fuscous on sides. Palpi 2, grey-whitish mixed with fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen straight, oblique; whitish-ochreous suffusedly strigulated 

 throughout with fuscous ; costa obliquely strigulated throughout with dark ''^ 

 fuscous; some irregular dark fuscous suffusion beneath middle of disc from ^'^^^ , / 

 about :f to I ; a white discal dot at §, preceded and followed by irregular longi- 

 tudinal black marks ; veins beyond cell marked by fine dark fuscous lines ; two 

 small blackish interneutral marks above tornus ; a small subtriangular subapical 

 patch of dark fuscous suffusion, edged above with ochreous-white suffusion ; 

 some black irroration along termen : cilia pale fuscous with rows of whitish 

 points, indistinctly spotted with dark fuscous irroration, Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 whitish grey, with grey subbasal line. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in March (Newcome) ; two specimens, 

 Bactra minima, n. sp, 



$. 8-9 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, slightly tinged with 

 brownish. Palpi I5, ochreous-whitish, with median band of blackish irroration, 

 abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly 



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