MEYRICK— TORTRICINA AND TINEINA 



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Forewings narrowly lanceolate ; yellowish-ferruginous; a moderate suffused dark fuscous or 

 blackish streak along costa; markings glistening silvery-white or grey-whitish, with violet 

 reflections ; a small spot at base ; a variable suffused patch beneath costa at £ ; a suffused 

 subdorsal streak from near base to f ; an oblique patch from middle of costa, reaching 

 half across wing ; a dot on costa at § , and a patch at f ; a spot on dorsum before tornus, 

 whence an irregular streak runs above margin to lower of two small spots on termen: 

 cilia whitish, towards tornus suffused with grey. Hind wings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Silhouette, forest above Mare aux Oochous, sixteen specimens, one labelled 

 "highest point, 2467 feet"; also one from Mahe, Cascade Estate, 1000 feet; in September 

 and February. 



97. Oinophila crobylora, n. sp. 



$. 12 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, frontal tuft and lower half of high occipital 

 tuft fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen grey. Fore- 

 wings narrow-lanceolate, apex slenderly produced, acute, down-turned; pale brownish- 

 ochreous, rather deeper posteriorly; a subdorsal series of three or four small dark 

 fuscous spots anteriorly; seven oblique whitish strigulse from posterior half of costa, 

 edged posteriorly with black specks, last vertical, wedgeshaped ; a blackish subdorsal 

 dot towards tornus ; a blackish longitudinal strigula in disc at f ; a streak of blackish 

 irroration in apex: cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex with a median line of dark 

 fuscous specks, beneath apex with two short blackish lines near base. Hindwings rather 

 dark leaden-grey; cilia grey- whitish. 



Silhouette, forest above Mare aux Cochons, in September; one specimen. 



Decadarchis Meyr. 



98. Decadarchis methodica, n. sp. 



c£$. 10 — 11 mm. Head fuscous-whitish, hairs of forehead mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, projecting hairs and apex whitish. Thorax brownish, with a black 

 dot on each shoulder, and one at posterior extremity. Abdomen pale fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, strongly upturned, termen extremely 

 obliquely rounded; brown irrorated with whitish; costal edge blackish towards base; 

 a broad streak of whitish suffusion along costa from base, narrowed posteriorly and 

 becoming obsolete towards J; costal area strewn with scattered black scales; black dots 

 towards costa rather near base and before middle, one on fold at ^, and one beneath 

 middle at § ; an elongate apical patch of dark fuscous suffusion, terminated anteriorly 

 by a small black spot, and edged above by a patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion, in which 

 is a fine very oblique blackish line from costa: cilia dark grey with rows of whitish points, 

 round apex with a black subbasal line, beneath apex with a basal patch of black irroration. 

 Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish-grey. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet, in September; two specimens. 



99. Decadarchis trichodora, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face whitish. Palpi long, wholly clothed with 

 dense rough expanded ochreous whitish hairs. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen 



