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DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MIOKO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY 



E. MbYRIOK, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



III. 



(Continued from page 417 of this Volume.) 

 Besides previously mentioned contributors, I have received material 

 through the kindness of Major 0. G. Nurse and Colonel C. Swinhoe, 

 and also some obtained by native collectors in the Khasi Hills, a por- 

 tion of which is included in the present instalment, as well as some 

 sent by the Calcutta Museum, mostly collected by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. 

 Sixteen genera and sixty-one species are described as new. 



Ptekophokida:. 



Exelastis, n. g. 



Face smooth. Palpi moderate, slender, ascending, pointed. Tibia; slender, 

 smooth. Forewings cleft from § — §, segments narrow, pointed, sometimes 

 broader in 9 > 2 from near angle, 8 and 4 stalked from angle, 5 and 6 very 

 short, 7 from near upper angle, 8 and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 11 from near angle. 

 Hindwings cleft firstly from ^, secondly from near base, segments very narrow, 

 pointed, without scale-tooth in dorsal cilia ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 stalked from 

 angle, 5 and 6 absent. 



Type E. atomosa, Wals. To this genus I also refer Uophaues, Meyr., hitherto 

 included in Marasmarcha. 



Exelastis atomosa, Wals. 



(Aciptilia atomosa, Wals., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, 885.) 



The larva feeds in pods of Cajanus indicus, and has been bred freely by Mr. 

 H. Maxwell-Lefroy. In this species the forewings are deeply cleft and the 

 segments shorter and broader in the $ than in the $ — an unusual circumstance. 



Orneodidte. 



Ormodes ochrozona, n. sp. 



$ $. 19-22 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi long, whitish-ochreous, second and terminal joints each with 

 two bands of dark fuscous irroration, second joint with projecting scales above 

 and beneath. Forewings light yellow-ochreous ; costa with about twelve short 

 whitish strigulse edged with dark fuscous ; apex suffused with blackish ; basal 

 third of wing irrorated with dark fuscous ; median and subterminal zigzag bands 

 of dark fuscous irroration, margined by whitish lines edged with dark fuscous, 

 obsolete on costal lobe ; apex of each lobe with a black dot. Hindwings as 

 forewings, but costal lobe marked like the rest, median band nearer base. 



Bhotan, in June ; several specimens in collection of Calcutta Museum, to 

 which I am indebted for examples. Near siklcima, Moore, but that is a grey 

 species. 



