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XXXIX. N E']W xMlCRO-IvEPIDOPTERA 

 FROM INDIA AND BURMA. 



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



The following descriptions are from specimens taken b}^ Dr. 

 N. Armandale, and the types are in the collection of the Indian 



Museum. 



Ceracid^. 



Cerace, Walk. 



I have formerly treated this genus as belonging to the Plutel- 

 lidcB. but I now recognise that its neuration is essentially Tortricid 

 in character, and that the smooth head cannot outweigh this. I 

 propose, therefore, to constitute the CeracidcB as a distinct family, 

 agreeing with typical TortricidcB in neuration and other important 

 points, but differing from them by the smooth head. 



Cerace mesoclasta, sp. nov. 



9 . 41 mm. Head white, collar purple-blackish edged with 

 white. Palpi white, with a grey streak along upper edge of second 

 joint except at apex, terminal joint grey. Antennae dark grey 

 ringed with white. Thorax dark purple-fuscous, with five white 

 spots, patagia edged with white. Abdomen blackish, segmental 

 margins light ochreous-yellow, apex orange. Fore wings elongate, 

 narrow rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex very 

 obtuse, termen rounded so as to project rather beyond apex ; 

 dark purple-fuscous, covered with rows of numerous small whitish 

 spots between veins, towards costa united into transverse strig« 

 which become larger, towards base ; in the middle of disc these 

 spots coalesce into a longitudinal streak ; an elongate orange spot 

 on termen, extending from vein 2 to 6 ; cilia dark fuscous (imper- 

 fect). Hind wings whitish ; a fuscous blotch suffusedly spotted 

 with dark fuscous occupying apical fourth of wing ; a row of dark 

 fuscous spots along costa ; about three rows of dark fuscous spots 

 extending over dorsal area of wing from base to apical blotch, 

 smaller towards base ; cilia white, round apical blotch mostly 



dark fuscous. . ,, 



Kurseong, E. Himalayas, at 5,000 feet, m May; one speci- 

 men. Nearest C. stipatana, but easily known by tl^e discal white 

 streak, less extensive orange patch, spotted dorsal area of hind 

 wings, and blackish-banded abdomen. In the specimen described 

 veins 6 and 7 are short-stalked in one fore wing by an abnor- 

 mality, the other wing being quite normal. 



