INDIAN MICR0-LEP1D0PTERA. 731 



Epiblemid^e. 

 Chrosis ephijppias, n. sp, 



$ 9. 11-16 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, sometimes partially 

 tinged with brownish-ochreous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, rather broader in 9, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen straight, somewhat oblique ; whitish-ochreous, strewn with brownish- 

 ochreous strigulas which are finely sprinkled with black ; costa more sharply 

 and darkly strigulated throughout ; basal patch very obscurely indicated, 

 edge obtusely angulated in middle ; upper half of central fascia dark-brown, 

 truncate beneath, posterior edge with a strong acute projection above trunca- 

 tion ; rest of central fascia represented by an elongate dark-brown discal 

 mark at f , its anterior end sometimes curved and connected with costal half, 

 and a brown blotch with two upward diverging lobes on dorsum towards 

 tornus ; a triangular brown spot in disc towards apex ; a small dark brown 

 apical spot : cilia ochreous-whitish, sprinkled with fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked, rather dark fuscous ; cilia as 

 in forewings. 



Puttalam and Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray, Green, Vanghan) ; 

 Bombay (Young) ; from July to April, twenty specimens. 



Proschistis, n. g. 



Palpi moderate, porrected. Antennae in $ strongly fasciculate-ciliated (3). 

 Thorax with small posterior crest. Forewings in $ without fold, termen 

 sinuate ; 7, 8, 9 approximated at base. Hindwings with 3, 4, 5 approximated 

 ac base, 6 and 7 approximated towards base. 



Allied to Eucosma. 



Prosch'stis zaleuta, n. sp. 



$ $. 18-25 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated and thorax some- 

 times partly suffused with whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, little 

 oblique ; white, sprinkled with dark fuscous and strewn with dark fuscous 

 strigulse, veins except posteriorly obscurely suffused with dark purplish-leaden; 

 costa spotted with dark fuscous ; basal patch indicated by coalescence of dark 

 fuscous strigulte, but undefined ; central fascia dark fuscous, narrow, irregular 

 and undefined on upper half, broad and strongly marked on lower half ; a 

 subquadrate dark fuscous spot on costa towards apex, whence proceeds a narrow 

 striga to tornus, sometimes confluent with a narrow transverse spot before 

 middle of termen : cilia fuscous, irrorated with white and indistinctly barred 

 with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, Alston, de Mowbray, Green) ; from July to Sep* 

 tember, twenty specimens. 



Platypeplus tetracona, n. sp. 



$ $. 24-29 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous, sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen light .fuscous. Brush of posterior tibiae whitish in 

 $ , shorter and ochreous-tinged in $ . Forewings elongate, considerably dilated, 



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