﻿November 15, 1909,] Descriptions of Indian Micro- Lepidoptera. ■&88' 



middle, reaching half across wing , sometimes united with smaller less developed 

 or nearly obsolete blotches from costa to form angulated fascia ; an angulated 

 bluish-leaden striga from | of costa to tornus, its margins sometimes more or 

 less marked with ferruginous-yellowish : cilia fuscous mixed with dark fuscous 

 and sprinkled with fuscous-whitish with a dark fuscous subbasal line. Hind- 

 wings fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, with a dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Diyatalawa, Ceylon (Fletcher) ; Khasis, in August ; nine specimens, 



Pohjehrosis fallax, n. sp. 



(^9- 15-17 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second joint 

 with three small dark fuscous spots externally on upper margin, and one on 

 lower margin near apex. Thorax pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly spotted 

 with dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, pos- 

 teriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, little 

 oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, with scattered strigulae of ochreous and 

 blackish irroration ; basal patch mixed with ochreous and blackish, ill-defined, 

 edge iiTegular ; space between this and central fascia with one or two irregular 

 more or less marked leaden metallic striga ; central fascia broad throughout, 

 little oblique deep brownish-ochreous or ferruginous-ochreous mixed with 

 leaden-metallic and blackish, more strongly marked with blackish on upper 

 half, appearing to form a blackish costal blotch attached anteriorly to a 

 downwards-curved longitudinal mark in disc : an ochreous streak sprinkled with 

 blackish extending from posterior margin of central fascia near costa to middle 

 of termen, space above and below this marked with irregular leaden-metallic 

 strigse ; costa posteriorly with three small blackish spots whence arise short 

 brownish strigulse meeting beneath apex : cilia brownish-ochreous mixed with 

 leaden-grey and blackish with a subbasal blackish line, at tornus with a whitish- 

 ochreous patch. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, in ^ with dorsum clothed 

 with expansible tuft of whitish ochreous hairs ; cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line, in ^ becoming whitish-ochreous towards dorsum. 



Khasis, from July to September ; twelve specimens. 



Poh/chrosis anceps, n. sp. 



(^9' 12-14 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with fuscous. 

 Palpi pale ochreous, indistinctly spotted with fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 teiTnen faintly sinuate, hardly oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, mixed with 

 leaden grey, which tends to form irregular transverse strias ; small blackish 

 spots along costa ; basal patch irregularly mixed with brownish and black, 

 outer edge irregular ; central fascia brownish, hardly oblique, very undefined 

 towards costa broad and suffusedly mixed with blackish, in middle of disc 

 with a longitudinal down-curved black mark, posterior edge excavated above 

 and below this ; an erect elongate-triangular brownish praetornal spot edged by 

 undefined blackish striae continued upwards as a single stria f across wing ; a 

 brownish streak mixed with black from near extremity of this to termen below 

 middle ; a small biownish apical spot : cilia fuscous, with blackish subbasal line, 



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