MEYRICK— TORTRICINA AND TINEINA 301 



dark fuscous hairs. Palpi whitish, second joint externally with a dark fuscous line. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate, apex somewhat produced, acute, 

 down-turned; whitish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with brownish or rather dark fuscous; 

 a moderate very oblique ill-defined shining white or silvery-whitish fascia from costa 

 beyond middle, usually terminated beneath by a black longitudinal dash above tornus 

 (but in one good specimen this is absent) ; a similar whitish patch on apical portion 

 of costa, terminated beneath by a black longitudinal mark in apex : cilia whitish, round 

 apex with a fine black median line. Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Mahe, near Morne Blanc, 1000 feet ; Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 

 1000 feet; in September and October, six specimens. 



103. Ereunetis calypta, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head fuscous mixed with dark fuscous, hairs of face blackish. Palpi 

 blackish. Antenna? pale fuscous. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, very narrow, short-pointed, obtuse, apex upturned ; 

 4 absent, 7 present, separate ; light fuscous, sprinkled with brown ; costal edge suffusedly 

 dark fuscous ; a moderate streak of dark fuscous suffusion along dorsum from base to 

 tornus, attenuated posteriorly ; an undefined elongate patch of dark fuscous irroration 

 towards apex, terminating in a round blackish apical spot ; a very oblique white striga 

 from ^ of costa to apical spot, edged with dark fuscous suffusion : cilia fuscous. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau, 1000 feet, in September ; one specimen. 



104. Ereunetis xenica, n. sp. 



$%. 7 — 11 mm. Head grey-whitish or whitish-fuscous, face and palpi blackish. 

 Thorax fuscous- whitish, shoulders blackish. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, upturned, termen somewhat sinuate, 

 very oblique ; ochreous-whitish, sometimes more or less suffused with fuscous on dorsal 

 half; markings black ; an irregular posteriorly expanded blotch along basal third of 

 costa; two oblique blotches from costa about middle and f, reaching half across wing, 

 connected in disc, angle of second running into a small round spot at apex, which 

 receives also a line running along posterior part of costa ; two undefined cloudy oblique 

 marks from dorsum at £ and ^ ; a line along termen : cilia whitish, sometimes partially 

 fuscous-tinged, round apex with a blackish median line. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish, 

 at apex with a grey bar. 



Mahe, Cascade Estate 1000 feet, in January and February; two specimens. Also 

 from Kandy, Maskeliya, and Puttalam, Ceylon (Green, Pole) ; N. Coorg (Newcome) and 

 Khasi Hills, India ; Kuching, Borneo (Hewitt). 



Mastigostoma, n. gen. 



Head with appressed hairs, face flat, retreating, smooth, forehead prominent, 

 somewhat raised; ocelli absent; tongue absent. Antenna? f, in £ simple, basal joint 

 long, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi long, somewhat curved, subascending, widely 

 diverging, second joint thickened with dense appressed scales, terminal joint as long 



