884 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [DcC. 1, 



Fam. Cryptolechiad^, Meyrich. 

 Depressaria ? 

 211. Depressaria swiNHOEi, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 174. 



Poona, October. 



There are five specimens in the collection: they have not the 

 depressed bodies of the genus Depressaria, from which the neuration 

 of the hind wings also serves to separate them. The junction of 

 veins 6 and 7 of the hind wings would place them, according to 

 Mr. Meyrich's system of classification, in the Cryptolechiadae : but 

 the name of this family should perhaps be altered, for I find on 

 examining the type of Zeller's Cryptolechia straminella from South 

 Africa, which is the original type of the genus, veins 6 and 7 of the 

 hind wings are not even closely approximated at the base, but run 

 nearly parallel as in Depressariadae and (Ecophoridae. 



Binsitta, Walker. 



212. Binsitta niviferana. 

 Binsitta niviferana. Walker, xxix. 832. 

 Bombay, October. One female. 



Gelechia. 



213. Gelechia umbripennis, sp. nov. 



Bombay ; Poona, April. Reared from Cawnpore cotton. 



Palpi long, recurved, the second joint smoothly scaled, not tufted, 

 pale ochreous, dull umber-brown externally over two thirds of the 

 length of the second joint. 



Head, antennae, thorax, and fore wings dark umber-brown, with 

 two inconspicuous darker spots, the first above and before the 

 middle ; the second equidistant from the costal and dorsal margins, 

 at the end of the cell. Abdomen and hind wings pale cinereous (fore 

 and hind wings rather shining) ; legs pale cinereous. 



Expanse, S 15 miUim., $ 18 milHm. 



214. Chelaria indica, sp. n. 



Bombay. 



Head, jpalpi, and antennae cinereous. Fore wings fawn-coloured 

 at the base and along the dorsal margins, slightly mottled towards 

 the apex with the darker shading ; a large diffuse fuscous costal 

 blotch stretches from the basal third of the wing nearly to the apex, 

 and contains a few raised fuscous scales, especially towards its inner 

 margin, it is interrupted on the costa beyond the middle by an 

 elongate narrow cinereous space. Hind wings are purplish iridescent 

 along their central space, where the scales are very thin, but brownish 

 around the margins, which are more thickly covered ; fringes dull 

 cinereous. Legs and abdomen pale cinereous. 



Expanse 15 millim. 



This species is closely allied to Chelaria conscripteUa, Hiibn., 



