MEYRICK— TORTRICINA AND TINEINA 307 



Scardia Treit. 



120. Scardia lochcea, n. sp. 



?. 12 mm. Head fuscous-whitish, sides of crown more fuscous-tinged. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint mixed with dark fuscous towards base, terminal joint with dark 

 fuscous subapical spot. Thorax whitish-fuscous, shoulders with suffused dark fuscous 

 blotch. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; fuscous-whitish, sprinkled 

 and coarsely strigulated with mixed brown and blackish scales ; two or three larger 

 transverse spots on dorsum : cilia whitish-fuscous, darker towards tornus, with two 

 interrupted dark fuscous shades. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



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



