﻿Noi}ember 15, 1909.] Descnplions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. ■6W0' 



fuscous and whitish. Antenna! ciliations in $ short. Palpi brownish suffu- 

 sedly mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, in ^ suffused with whitish 

 ochreous towards base, Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, 

 tjosta gently arclied, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hardly oblique ; 

 secondary cell very narrow ; fuscous tinged with reddish, and irregularly 

 mixed with white, and strigulated with black ; outer edge of basal patch indi- 

 cated by a small black spot on costa ; central fascia formed by blackish suffu- 

 sion, narrow, irregular, indLstinct, below middle forming a more conspicuous 

 very irregular elongate blotch ; a rather narrow fascia of blackish suffusion 

 from costa before apex to dorsum before tornus, marked on veins with brown : 

 cilia fuscous mixed with dark fuscous, on tornus sprinkled with whitish, 

 Hindwings fuscous, darker towards apex ; cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line. 



Maskeliya and Patipola, Ceylon, in February and October (Alston, de 

 Mowbray) ; four specimens. The secondary cell of forewings is in P. mienta, 

 still narrower than in this species, a point not noticed in my description. 



Proschistis invida, n. sp, jo, S 9 



$ $. 14-16 mm. Headlight fuscous. Palpi fuscous-whitish, suffusedly 

 spotted with fuscous. Thorax fuscous sprinkled with whitish, and suffusedly 

 spotted with darker fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, poste- 

 riorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, 

 little oblique ; ochreous-brownish ; costal edge suffused with blackish, and 

 marked with eight or nine pairs of oblique whitish strigul^ ; basal patch 

 mixed with black and leaden-metallic, outer edge rounded ; space between 

 this and central fascia mostly occupied by two irregular leaden-metallic 

 istrise edged with whitish ; central fascia moderate, mixed with black, posterior 

 ■edge irregular, with long subcostal and median projections, excavation filled 

 with leaden-metallic ; beyond this a thick double partially whitish-edged 

 leaden-metallic stria, separating into two thick branches to enclose an elongate- 

 triangular praetornal spot mixed with black ; leaden-metallic lines from last 

 three pairs of costal strigulsB converging to a point beneath apex, space between 

 this and preceding stria longitudinally streaked with black suffusion except 

 towards costa : cilia rather dark fuscous, finely sprinkled with whitish points. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, with darker subbasal line. 

 Khasis, in September ; four specimens. 

 Asaphistis, n. g. 



Antennas in $ strongly fasciculate-ciliated. Palpi moderate, ponected, 

 second joint triangularly rough-scaled, terminal joint short. Forewings with 

 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings with 3 and 4 remote, .3 from well before angle, 

 5 approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 approximated towards base. (Thorax 

 probably crested, but damaged.) 

 Allied to Proschistis. 

 Asaphistis proeceps, n, sp. 

 ^. 15-16 mm. Head and palpi fuscous mixed with black. Thorax pale 



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