﻿November 15, 1909.] Descriptims of Indian Micro- Lepidoj^tera. 4©^ 



ochreous suffused with rcd-biowii, more or loss barred willi blackisli irroration. 

 Hindwings dark grey, in ^ with dorsal fold enclosing an expansible pencil of 

 long blackish hairs becoming yellowish towards base ; cilia whitish, with grey 

 subbasal line. 



Khasis, in September and October ; four specimens. 

 C.-~ ArrjTjroploce metact(ni!\,n. sp. 



^. I'J mm. Head whitish-ochreous, on crown more or less suffused with 

 ferruginous-brown. Palpi subascending, fuscous sprinkled with whitish, 

 beneath and towards base whitish, second joint with median bar and subbasal 

 dot of blackish suffusion. Thorax light brownish, crest suffused with ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous, anal tuft mixed with whitish-ochreous. 

 Posterior tibiae and tarsi tufted with long expansible ochreous-whitish and 

 grey hairs above. Forewings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, tcrmen nearly straight, little oblique ; brownish, longitu- 

 dinally striated and largely suffused with brown-whitish ; veins in disc more 

 or less marked with brown -reddish ; costa strigulated with reddish-fuscous 

 and blac k irroration ; two_^'_three_yeix_oblique dull reddish stiigaj beneath 

 costa posteriorly ; a transverse mark of dull reddish suffusion with some black 

 irroration on end of cell ; a rather broad reddish-fuscous streak mixed with 

 <Jark fuscous along dorsum throughout, upper edge somewhat prominent before 

 middle and at § : cilia brown whitish towards tornus tinged with brown-reddish, 

 ■on middle of termen with three reddish-brown bars sprinkled with blackish, 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; a hyaline lanceolate spot beneath 

 base of cell ; a longitudinal pecten of whitish hairs between veins 2 and 3 ; 

 a dorsal furrow clothed with long expansible tuft of fuscous hairs ; cilia 

 whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Khasis, in October and November ; two specimens. 

 Ar(]yr()ploee paracjruiiima, n. sp. 



$ . ii) mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous ; palpi subascend- 

 ing, second joint with a blac'<ish median spot above ; thorax partly tinged with 

 grey. Abdomen dark grey. Posterior tibia) rough-scaled. Forewings elon- 

 gate, moderately broad, rather dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, hardly oblique ; brownish-ochreous, tending to 

 be longitudinally marked with pale or ochreous-whitish lines on veins and 

 some blackish irroration between these ; costa strigulated with ochreous- 

 whitish tinged with leaden, with blackish interspaces ; three very oblique 

 bluish-leaden strigEe from median third of costa, first two ending above posterior 

 portion of cell, third running almost to termen beneath apex ; a leaden-metallic 

 almost marginal striga along lower half of termen : cilia pale ochreous, above 

 middle o£ termen tinged with brownish, above apex with a blackish spot. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with 

 grey, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Pusa, Bengal, bred in September from stem of bamboo (Lefroy) ; one speci- 

 men. 



