INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 153 



Eight specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in February and from July to September 

 (Pole). 



Dactylethra, n.g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts loosely spreading ; tongue developed. 

 Antennae i, in $ serrulate, simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint with long dense rough pro- 

 jecting tuft beneath, terminal joint as long as second, loosely scaled, acute. 

 Posterior tibiae rough-haired ; above. Forewings with 2 from near angle, 2,3 

 4 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, 

 apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, cilia £ ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 connate, 5 

 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Apparently related to the Ypsolophus group. 



Dactylethra tetroctas, n. sp. 



$$. 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, thorax, and abdomen ochreous- 

 white ; second and terminal joints of palpi with blackish supramedian and 

 usually less marked subbasal rings, tuft suffused with brownish, seldom mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; ochreous-white ; a dark fuscous dot towards costa near 

 base, and two transversely placed in disc at i ; about eight short oblique brown 

 strigulas on costa ; transverse undefined patches of ochreous-brown suffusion in 

 disc at ^, beyond middle, and towards termen, first narrow, second broader, 

 reaching costa. third largest, somewhat mixed with black scales and bounded 

 by a grey terminal streak ; between these are two lilac-grey sometimes whitish- 

 centred irregularly 8-shaped spots in disc before middle and at §, first rather 

 oblique, second shorter : cilia brownish, with rows of whitish points. Hind- 

 wings fuscous- whitish ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Ten specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in August, October, and November 

 (Pole). 



(To be continued?) 



