576 TINEINA. 



ronpnui. 



GRACILARIA, Hw. 

 t GKA.CILLABTA, Hw., Lp. Br. 527 (1828). 



3691. Gracilaria coccinea, Wlsm. sp. n. 



Antenna (i), subochreous, the basal joint yellow with a red spot at its 

 apex. Maxillary Palpi carmine. Labial Palpi long, slender, recurved ; 

 median joint carmine externally, terminal joint whitish, tinged with 

 carmine. Head and Thorax yellow, tinged with carmine, a broad 

 carmine band reaching over the base of the head and the front of the 

 thorax, the middle of the thorax yellow, the hind portion carmine ; face 

 white ; underside of the thorax carmine. Forewings bright carmine, 

 with four rich yellow dorsal streaks ; the first, near the base, wide and 

 conspicuous, sloping inward and reaching nearly to the costa, where it is 

 narrower than at the base ; the second, before the middle, is abruptly 

 produced outwards along the upper edge of the fold ; the third, beyond 

 the middle, crossing the fold, is also somewhat produced outwards along 

 the upper edge of the fold ; the fourth, before the tornus, is also abruptly 

 produced outwards at its apex ; between the first and second streak is 

 a small yellow spot on the fold, with a smaller one above and before it, 

 and two smaller ones above and beyond it ; three broken irregular black 

 lines converge towards a black spot before the apex of the wing, the first 

 starting along the upper edge of the second dorsal streak, the second 

 from the upper edge of the third dorsal streak, and the third from the 

 upper edge of the fourth dorsal streak (in some specimens there is 

 a small yellow costal spot near the base and the form of the markings 

 here described is somewhat variable in a series of specimens) ; cilia at 

 the apex bright yellow, tipped with fuscous at their costo-apical extremity, 

 along the dorsum rosy grey ; underside rosy grey. Exp. al. 12-15 mm. 

 Hindwings shining grey ; cilia rosy grey ; underside rosy grey. Abdomen 

 grey, shining white beneath. Legs : the two anterior pairs with carmine 

 femora and tibiae, the latter banded with yellow; the posterior pair 

 greyish, the tarsal joints slightly darker, underside of the femora shining 

 white. 



Type <J. Mus. Wlsm. 



' Larva dark green, slightly hairy, about half an inch long, head black ; 

 a leaf-roller on myrtle. Pupa brown, with two of the legs protruding far 

 beyond the tip of the abdomen. No. 972 ' (Minchin MS.). 



Hab. INDIA Ootacamund (Minchin). Mus. OXF. and Mus. Wlsm. 



Mus. OXF. Two specimens. [Wlsm. Det. 13-14 (1893).] 



SARIDOSCELIS, Meyr. 

 SAHiDOSCELis, Meyr., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894, 28. 



3692. Saridoscelis sphenias, Meyr. 



Saridoscelis sphenias, Meyr., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894, 28-9'*. 



