504 Mr. E. Meyrick’s Notes and 
straight, oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous ; a fine dark fuscous line 
on vein 1b from near base to near middle; a small suffused dark 
fuscous spot on base of cleft, and a dot obliquely before and beneath 
it ; extremities of all veins with dark fuscous dots: cilia whitish- 
ochreous, broadly barred on veins with a faint brownish tinge, 
Hind-wings cleft firstly from before middle, secondly from about 3, 
segments moderately broad, pointed; fuscous, third segment 
whitish-fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous, base tinged with pale 
ochreous. 
TEXAS, U.S.; one specimen. Much the largest species 
of the genus, exceeding grandis by 8 mm. 
STENOPTILIA, Hb. 
Stenoptilia petrea, n. sp. 
¢. 20-21 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous, with a white 
line above eyes, thorax sometimes white-sprinkled. Palpi whitish- 
ochreous sprinkled with fuscous and whitish, base white beneath. 
Antenne grey. Abdomen greyish-ochreous with suffused streaks of 
white irroration, becoming more defined towards base. Legs grey, 
anterior and middle pair white internally. Fore-wings cleft from 
3, segments moderately broad, first evenly pointed, without lower 
angle, second with termen straight, very oblique ; brownish-ochreous, 
becoming browner posteriorly, more or less sprinkled irregularly 
with whitish ang blackish ; a cloudy dark fuscous dot in dise at 4, 
and a more distinct one on base of cleft: cilia light brownish- 
ochreous, base mixed with whitish in cleft and on termen, with 
traces of dark fuscous dots at angles of segments and in middle of 
termen of second segment. Hind-wings cleft firstly from 2, secondly 
from near base, first and second segments acutely pointed, apex of 
second produced ; rather dark grey ; cilia light greyish-ochreous. 
S. Inpra, Palni Hills, 6,000 feet (Campbell); Nilgiri 
Hills, 6,000 feet (Andrewes) ; two specimens. Much like 
bipunctidactyla, but certainly distinct by shape of first seg- 
ment of fore-wings, which is narrower and with lower 
margin straight to apex, so that there is no lower angle, 
which in bipunctidactyla is distinct. 
Stenoptilia zophodactyla, Dup. 
I have recently recorded this species as occurring not 
uncommonly in India, Ceylon and Eastern Australia, and 
