INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 735 



.scales towards J, faintly sinuate in middle, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, 

 oblique ; fuscous, finely and densely irrorated with white, appearing pale 

 grey ; veins and numerous transverse strigulas fuscous, forming an irregular 

 network ; five slender transverse fuscous striee mixed with black slightly 

 raised scales, first marking edge of basal patch, angulated in middle, second 

 and third marking edges of central fascia, second slightly curved, third irre- 

 gular, fourth from § of costa to tornus, fifth from costa near apex to near 

 middle of termen ; costa sometimes with a triangular grey or fuscous suffu- 

 sion, extending from second stria to fifth : cilia grey, sprinkled with whitish, 

 with blackish-grey subbasal line. Hindwings light grey, faintly strigulated 

 with darker ; cilia as in forewings. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in August, January, and February ; five specimens 

 (Pole, de Mowbray, Alston). 



Oxygrapha loxoscia, n. sp. 



$ 9. 14-16 mm. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous, tinged with purplish. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous-grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, hardly 

 dilated, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique ; ochreous or ferruginous, in lighter 

 specimens obscurely strigulated with fuscous, in darker specimens with indis- 

 tinct purplish-leaden transverse strigaa ; scattered minute black dots of raised 

 scales ; an oblique undefined fuscous shade from § of costa to middle of 

 dorsum : cilia ochreous, between apex and tornus light ochreous- yellowish, on 

 tornus suffused with grey. Hindwings ochreous-grey-whitish, in 9 suffused 

 with pale grey posteriorly ; cilia ochreous-whitish, in 9 greyish-tinged. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in October ; six specimens (Pole, Alston). 



Tortrix encausta, n. sp. 



$ 23-25 mm. 9 32-34 mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous, 

 Palpi very short, with appresaed scales, subascending. Abdomen in $ greyish- 

 ochreous, in 9 yellow-ochreous. Forewings moderately broad, in $ narrowed 

 anteriorly, in 9 sub-oblong, costa towards base in $ gently, in 9 strongly 

 arched, thence in $ nearly straight, in 9 sinuate, apex obtuse, termen in $ 

 hardly sinuate, little oblique, in 9 strongly sinuate beneath apex, bowed 

 beneath, vertical ; brownish-ochreous, with fine scattered grey or dark grey 

 strigulse, chiefly towards margins, often more or less suffused with light 

 purplish-fuscous ; basal patch represented in $ by a very dark green trapezoidal 

 blotch resting on dorsum towards base, reaching half across wing, in 9 by a 

 small irregular dark green transverse mark beneath costa at <j- ; in $ upper 

 half of central fascia very dark green, irregular, becoming brown on costa, in 

 9 this mark is broken up and much reduced, rising on costa nearer base at h • 

 three small semi-oval dark brown marks on posterior half of costa : cilia pale 

 brownish-ochreous, tips brown, except towards tornus. Hindwings in $ 

 fuscous, towards costa posteriorly sometimes slightly tinged with orange and 

 strigulated with darker ; in 9 light ochreous-orange, towards dorsum some- 

 times slightly infuscated, posteriorly strigulated with fuscous, terminal edge 



