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Mr. E. Meyrick’s Descriptions of 
EUCOSMIDAE. 
Spilonota, Stepli. 
Spilonota rhothia, n, sp. 
^. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax fuscous or rather dark fuscous, 
slightly sprinkled with whitish. Antennae with notch at Ab¬ 
domen fuscous, anal tuft fuscous-whitish. Forewings elongate, 
somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, with strong fold 
reaching from base to |, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 
rather oblique ; brown, strigulated or mixed or almost wholly 
suffused with dark fuscous ; costa posteriorly with four faint pairs 
of strigulae of whitish irroration ; a broad irregular streak of whitish 
suffusion extending along dorsum from near base to tornus, before 
middle with a projection upwards formed by a tuft of whitish scales, 
before tornus interrupted by a spot of groundcolour; ocellus indi¬ 
cated by indistinct leaden-grey margins terminated beneath in the 
whitish suffusion, and sometimes containing two or three undefined 
longitudinal blackish marks; three or four small undefined blackish 
marks separated by whitish irroration on termen : cilia fuscous more 
or less suffused with dark fuscous, with rows of whitish points. 
Hindwings wdth 3 and 4 stalked ; grey, rather thinly scaled, darker 
posteriorly, veins dark fuscous ; cilia pale fuscous, more whitish 
towards tips. 
Mauritius, one specimen ; also three from Pusa, Bengal 
(Lefroy), and Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole), in February and 
March ; bred from larvae feeding on leaves of Psidium 
guava, with which tree the insect has doubtless been intro¬ 
duced into Mauritius. S. Wals., from the West 
Indies, must be nearly allied to this, but is described as 
having two or three dark fuscous tufts about the sub¬ 
median fold instead of the whitish tuft of this species, and 
a pale costal patch at end of costal fold. 
Rhopobota, Led. 
Rhopolota, physalodes, n. sp. 
^ 9 • 13-14 mm. Head whiti.sh-ochreous, sometimes tinged with 
grey. Palpi pale ochreous, sometimes mixed with blackish. Thorax 
pale ochreous mixed with greyish, shoulders suffused with blackish. 
Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa gently arched, 
in (4 with dense erectile fringe of hairs lying on upper surface 
from base to f, apex obtuse, termen vertical, somewhat rounded- 
