270 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



white ; anterior legs dark fuscous above. Antenna; grey. Fore 

 wings rather elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apes 

 obtuse, hind margin hardly oblique, faintly sinuate below apex, 

 rounded beneath ; snow-white ; two fine grey transverse lines ; 

 first from beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of inner 

 margin, unevenly curved outwards, forming a dark grey spot on 

 inner margin ; second from before three-fourths of costa to inner 

 margin before anal angle, obtusely angulated somewhat above 

 middle, lower half slightly sinuate ; a series of seven irregular 

 elongate ochreous-yellow marks near beyond second line, four 

 lowest hind marginal, fifth and sixth confident, with a round black 

 submarginal dot between them ; a black line along uj>per third of 

 hind margin ; cilia snow-white, terminal half metallic-grey, except 

 round anal angle. Hind wings whitish, suffused with pale grey 

 posteriorly; cilia snow-white. 



Colombo, Ceylon ; one specimen in December. 



MlCROSCHCENIS, 11. g. 



Forehead vertical, with a conical projection of scales. Ocelli 

 present. Tongue rudimentary. Antenna? §, in male sub- 

 dentate, moderately ciliated (f). Labial palpi very long, 

 straight, porrected, loosely rough-scaled above and beneath, 

 gradually attenuated to apex. Maxillary palpi short, thick, 

 porrected, loosely scaled. Abdomen in male with uncus developed, 

 prensors moderate, exserted. Posterior tibiae with outer spurs 

 about half inner. Fore win^s with vein 2 from two-thirds of cell, 

 4 and 5 approximated at base, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 running into 12. 

 Hind wings narrower than fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 approximated 

 at base, 7 from a point with 6, anastomosing with 8 to near middle, 

 lower median naked. 



Closely allied to Schcenobius, but the species is much 

 smaller and more crainbideous-looking ; distinguished 

 from it by vein 11 of the fore wings running into 12 ; 

 and it is to be noted that this character is of frequent 

 occurrence in the Crambidcs, but very unusual in any 

 other family of the Pyralidina. 



Microschcanis immeritalis, Walk. 



Dosara immeritalis, Walk. Pyr., 830; Araxes decursella, 

 ib., Cr., 194. 



$ , 11 — 12 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs whitish-ochreous ; anterior legs fuscous above. Fore wings 



