94 PTBALIDJi. 



4396. Phycita clientella, Zett. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 396 ; Ray. Mon. 



Phyc. p. 183, pi. xi, fig. 18 ; C. $ 8. no. 4567. 

 Phycita clientulella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 184, pi. xxvi, fig. 3. 



$> . Head, thorax and abdomen pale red-brown, the collar grey. 

 Fore wing pale red-brown, suffused with grey and slightly irrorated 

 with black ; a sinuous grey medial line outlined with brown, and 

 with a triangular red-brown patch on its inner edge not reaching 

 the costa ; an indistinct discocellular lunule ; a black speck at 

 lower angle of cell, and short black streaks on veins 3, 4, 5, just 

 beyond the angle ; a submarginal brown-outlined grey line excurved 

 between veins 5 and 2; a prominent marginal series of black 

 specks. Hind wing iridescent semihyaline with an ochreous tinge. 



The form clientulella is fuscous and grey without any red-brown 

 tinge ; the hind wing greyish white. 



Hal. Calcutta ; Bombay ; Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



4397. Phycita eulepidella, n. sp. 



. Head and thorax fuscous thickly irrorated with blue-grey ; 

 abdomen fuscous, with pale segmental rings. Fore wing fuscous 

 thickly irrorated with blue-grey and with a few purple scales on 

 costa and outer area; an oblique dark line inwardly defined by 

 grey from costa before middle to middle of inner margin ; two 

 dark discocellular specks ; a postmedial dark line outwardly defined 

 by grey and slightly excurved between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal 

 series of dark specks. Hind wing ochreous white ; the apical area 

 fuscous ; a brown marginal line and line through the cilia. 



Hob. Kandy, Ceylon (Green). Exp. 18 millim. Type in B. M. 



4398. Phycita proximalis, wik. Cat. xxvii. p. 68. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous ; 

 collar ochreous brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous, 

 the costa and outer half of wing irrorated with pinkish brown ; an 

 antemedial dark-edged whitish line bent inwards to costa, with a 

 large olive patch on its inner edge and some reddish scales below 

 the costa ; two dark discocellular specks ; a grey dark-edged post- 

 medial line angled inwards below costa, bent outwards and 

 minutely dentate between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks. Hind wing semihyaline with a brownish tinge ; a brown 

 marginal line and a line through the cilia. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Borneo. Step. 28-32 millim. 



4399. Phycita majoralis, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Fore wing fuscous 

 brown irrorated with grey, the base brownish ; an antemedial 

 ridge of raised scales, with an ochreous band beyond it not reaching 

 the costa; an indistinct pale antemedial line; an ochreous 

 discocellular patch emitting streaks along the veins beyond the cell ; 



