MEYRICK— TORTRICINA AND TINEINA 293 



Mahe, Morne Seychellois, over 1500 feet; Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 

 1000 feet; in September and February, eleven specimens. Allied to an undescribed 

 Ceylon species. 



Tineidae. 



Lyonetia Hueb. 



76. Lyonetia probolactis, n. sp. 



£?. 9 — -10 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, and thorax silvery-white, crown smooth. 

 Abdomen light grey, apex white. Forewings very narrowly elongate, short-pointed, 

 apex shortly produced, caudulate; 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent; 

 pale shining silvery -grey ; an ochreous-brown fascia about §, triangularly expanded 

 towards costa, where it unites with an ochreous-brown apical patch, within which is 

 a small round black apical spot, preceded by two small white costal marks partly in cilia: 

 cilia pale grey, beneath apex blackish grey towards base, at apex with two blackish hooks. 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Mahe\ Morne Blanc (1000 feet), Morne Seychellois (over 1500 feet), Mare aux 

 Cochons district (1000 — 2000 feet); Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau and south 

 side of Mont Pot-a-eau (1000 — 1400 feet); from August to February, twenty-two speci- 

 mens. The species of Lyonetia show some variation in the scaling of the head and in 

 neuration, but the genus is small and admits of satisfactory definition. 



Opogona Zell. 



77. Opogona sultana, n. sp. 



cT?. 10 — 14 mm. Crown dark purple-fuscous, face and fillet shining whitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, internally whitish-ochreous. Antennae ochreous-whitish, 

 basal joint dark fuscous. Thorax yellow, anterior half purple-blackish. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewings lanceolate, acute ; clear yellow ; a wedgeshaped dark purple-fuscous spot along- 

 basal sixth of costa; a dark purple-fuscous streak along posterior part of dorsum and 

 termen from middle of wing to apex, edge sharply marked but ragged and irregular, 

 often with some black scales: cilia purplish-fuscous, on costa pale yellow. Hindwings 

 and cilia fuscous. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau and south side of Mont Pot-a-eau, 1000 — 

 1500 feet, in August and September; twenty-two specimens. 



78. Opogona harpalea, n. sp. 



$%. 10 — 11mm. Crown violet-grey, face and fillet shining ochreous-whitish. Palpi 

 dark fuscous, internally whitish. Antennas ochreous-whitish. Thorax dark violet-grey, 

 posterior extremity pale yellow. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings lanceolate, 

 acute; ochreous-yellow ; markings dark purple-fuscous; a moderate streak along basal 

 fourth of costa, not attenuated, reaching dorsum at base; a patch occupying apical 

 half of wing, its anterior edge vertical, rather irregular, marked with some blackish scales, 

 containing a rather large subtriangular yellow spot on costa about f : cilia grey, towards 

 base purple-tinged. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia pale yellowish-grey. 



Aldabra; three specimens. 



