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XXII. NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF 

 INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 



The specimens on which the following notes and descriptions 

 are based were submitted to me b}' the authorities of the Indian 

 Museum, and the types of the new species are in the collection of 

 the Museum, but cotypes of the majorit}^ are also in my own 

 collection. 



PTEROPHORIDAE. 



. ~- Oxyptilus praedator, n. sp. 



cf . 12 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, metathorax and 

 undersurface white. Palpi slender, curved, acute, dark fuscous 

 mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, white beneath, except 

 towards apex. Forewings cleft from f , segments moderate, second 

 dilated posteriorly, termen of first sinuate, of second concave, 

 bronzy-blackish; some very undefined light suffusion towards base 

 of first segment, and a faint whitish- fuscous subterminal line on 

 both segments : cilia whitish, with two blackish patches on termen 

 of each segment, dark fuscous on posterior half of both segments 

 above and l^eneath, with two black scale-teeth on dorsum in 

 middle and Ijef ore cleft. Hind wings blackish, third segment very 

 short and slender ; cilia rather dark grey with rosy reflections, on 

 dorsum of third segment with a very small black scale-tooth close 

 before apex. 



Sukna, E. Himalayas, 500 feet, in July (Annandale) ; one 

 specimen. Apparently nearest to 0. vaughani from Ceylon, but 

 that species has a broad white band on basal portion of abdomen . 



PlatypHlia gonodactyla. Schiff. 



Darjiling, E. Himalayas, 7,000 feet, in August (Paiva) ; two 

 specimens, apparently in no respect different from European. I 

 have it also from Rawalpindi. 



PHALONIADAE. 

 Phalonia man 11 iana,: F. R. 



TV 



Bosondhur, Khulna district, Ganges delta, at light, in August 

 (Jenkins); I have it also commonly from Ceylon. There is some 

 individual variability, but no constant difference from the Euro- 

 pean form ; it is a very wide-ranging insect. 



