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Micraghssa scoparialis, sp. n. 



Fore wing glossy wlntisli, finely freckled with darker ; 

 extreme base blackish, consisting of three blotches — one 

 costal, one subcostal, the third on the inner margin ; first line 

 slightly curved, black, followed by a blackish blotch for two 

 thirds from the costa, which embraces two stigmata, as in 

 Scoparta ; reniform stigma black, 8-shaped, oblique, with a 

 blackish costal blotch above it ; second line indistinct; hind- 

 marginal area witli the usual fuscous shades of Scoparia. 

 Hind wing whitish ochrcous, ratlier glossy. Second joint of 

 labial palpi and basal joint of antenna3 dark fuscous ; head 

 and thorax fuscous ; abdomen whitish at base, gradually 

 becoming greyer. 



Expanse of wings 12 millim. 



One female from Darjiling. 



MiCEEREMiTES, gcn. nov. 



Fore wings wiili costa nearly straight, apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin obliquely curved, with a very decided 

 indentation below apex, opposite the cell. Hind wings 

 rounded, showing a faint trace of the same indentation ; both 

 wings narrow and elongate. Palpi sickle-shaped^ very long; 

 the second joint standing well out in front of head, hairy, the 

 terminal upcurved and overtopping the head, slender and 

 pointed ; antennae in male moniliform and pubescent, in female 

 simply moniliform ; tongue short. 



Type JlJ.fatua, Warr. 



The genus is related to Sufetula, W\k. { = Pseudochoreutes, 

 SnelL), wliicli has the same subapical indentation in the hind 

 margin, but much shorter palpi. 



Mto-eremites fatua, sp. n. 



Fore wings dull bone-colour, with the costa at the base and 

 the whole central area between the two transverse lines dark 

 grey ; the two lines at one third and two thirds undulating, 

 dark grey, the first edged internally, the second externally, 

 with paler, approaching one another below the median vein ; 

 a large brown-black cell-spot in the dark central space just 

 before the second line ; a sinuous subterminal line faintly 

 paler; extreme apex and base of indentation dark grey. 

 Hind wings like fore wings, rather greyer along the hiud 

 margin. Head, thorax_, and abdomen bone-colour; centre of 

 abdomen dark grey ; underside straw-colour, with darker 

 grey markings, the whole basal two thirds being blackish. 



