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narrow, cilia 5 ; pale grey ; a minute blackish apical dot ; cilia ochreous-grey- 

 whitish, with some blackish median scales opposite apex. 



One specimen, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March (Pole). To this genus is also 

 referable animosella, Walk., described under Gelechia. 



Idiophantis soreuta, n. sp. 



$ . 13-14 mm. Head pale ochreous, face and palpi whitish-ochreous, ter- 

 minal joint of palpi with dark fuscous line each side of anterior edge. Antenna? 

 whitish, lined with dark fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous, shoulders narrowly 

 fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, termen very deeply concave, so that apex becomes a narrow twisted 

 strip, tornus a somewhat shorter, strong, rounded prominence ; 6 absent ; pale 

 brownish-ochreous, towards apex yellowish-tinged ; a dark fuscous patch 

 extending along costa from base to §•, not reaching half across wing, lower edge 

 with two short darker rounded prominences before middle, posterior edge 

 straight, oblique ; a few variable scattered dark fuscous dots or dashes 

 between this and dorsum ; a fine whitish fuscous-edged line from f of costa 

 to dorsum before tornus, right-angled above middle, arms subsinuate ; a whitish 

 streak along costa towards apex, edged with fuscous beneath ; a small dark 

 metallic-bronze spot on termen beneath middle : cilia whitish-ochreous, round 

 apex with a dark fuscous basal line, opposite terminal spot with a metallic- 

 bronze patch. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with darker subbasal 

 shade. 



Three specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in November and December (Pole). The 

 absence of vein 6 of the forewings is an extension of the generic characters, 

 but the species is in all respects so clearly allied to the Australian insect -which 

 forms the type of Idiophantis that I do not hesitate to include them together. 



Anacampsis nerteria, n. sp. 



$ 9. 10 — 11mm. Head, antenna?, and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, face 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, terminal joint with anterior and 

 interior blackish lines. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, long- 

 pointed, acute ; 6 out of 7 ; bronzy-fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous, some- 

 times paler-3prinkled ; stigmata dark fuscous, very obscure, plical obliquely 

 before first discal, edged posteriorly by an ochreous-whitish dot ; a small 

 ochreous-whitish costal spot before f : cilia fuscous, towards base mixed with 

 brown and black points, with a median black line. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Thirty-four specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February and April (Green). 

 Bred in plenty by Mr. Green who gives the following particulars : — " Larva dull 

 greenish ; head and plate of 2 dark brown ; spots black : feeds between two 

 leaves spun together on the ground-nut (Arachishypogaa*), and is destructive to 

 foliage ; egg pale green, irregularly elongate-oval, surface coarsely pitted in 

 irregular longitudinal series, under the microscope remarkably similar both in 

 form and sculpture to seed of Arachis." This species is very closely allied to 

 the common European anthyllidella, differing only by the ochreous-whitish face 

 and second joint of palpi, which in anthyllidella are pale fuscous ; also very 



