﻿396 E. Meyrick : New Micro-lepidoptera. [Voi,. II, 



GEI,KCHIAD^. 



Ochmastis, gen. nov. 



Head smooth-scaled ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. An- 

 tennse ^, in cr simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. I^abial 

 palpi long, recurved, second joint rather short, with moderate 

 projecting tuft of rough hairs towards apex beneath, terminal 

 joint nearly twice as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary- 

 palpi very short, filiform, drooping. Posterior tibiae clothed with 

 long hairs above. Fore wings with vein 16 furcate, 2 from near a, 

 3 and 4 approximated from angle, 5 parallel, 6 absent, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hind wings i, elongate-trape- 

 zoidal, termen scarcely sinuate, cilia over i ; 2 widely remote, 3-5 

 rather approximated at base, 6 and 7 long-stalked. 



Belongs to the group of Ypsolophus , in which it is charac- 

 terised by the neuration, 



Ochmastis chionacma, sp. nov. 



cf . 16 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi white, second joint blackish except towards apex, 

 terminal joint sprinkled with grey ; with three undefined blackish 

 rings. Antennae blackish ringed with white. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft ochreous-yellowish. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; white, irre- 

 gularly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; two small dark fuscous spots 

 near base above and below middle, upper marked with black ; an 

 irregular quadrate dark fuscous patch on dorsum before middle, 

 reaching f across wing, enclosing an elongate pale 3'ellow-ochreous 

 blotch of somewhat raised scales dilated posteriQrly and edged 

 above with a few black scales ; three subconfluent dark fuscous 

 blotches forming an irregular streak from middle of disc to | of 

 costa, crossed by an interrupted thick black streak in disc from 

 before middle to f , and two or three short black streaks on veins 

 beyond this ; an elongate black mark on costa before middle ; 

 apical area forming a roundish clear white spot, edged by a margi- 

 nal black line : cilia white, on costa with three black wedge- 

 shaped spots, round apex with three dark fuscous bars towards 

 tornus suffused with fuscous and sprinkled on basal half with dark 

 fuscous. Hind wings grey, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia pale 

 grey towards base, ochreous- tinged, 



Dawna Hills (2 — 3,000 feet), lyower Burma, in March ; one 

 specimen. 



Bl^ACHISTIDi^. 



Stathmopoda placida, sp. nov. 



9 . lo-ii mm. Crown whitish-ochreous irrorated with fus- 

 cous, face pearly white. Palpi whitish-ochreous, in front white. 



