INDIAN MICR0-LEP1D0PTEHA. 743 



beneath towards apex, terminal joint as long as second, moderate, acute 

 Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiss clothed with long hairs. Fore- 

 wings with 16 furcate, 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 

 apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia almost 1 ; 3 and 4 

 connate, 5-7 tolerably parallel. 



Allied to Phceosaces. 



Mylothra creseritis, n. sp. 



<£9. 19-20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, edge of shoulders 

 infuscated. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous. 

 Antenna? fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 

 obliquely rounded, whitish-ochreous, very finely and thinly sprinkled with 

 fuscous ; stigmata and a preetornal dot very faintly indicated by similar 

 irroration, plical beneath first discal : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings pale 

 grey irrorated with dark grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with two faint 

 fuscous shades. 



Quetta, in June and July ; two specimens (Nurse). 



STENOMID.E. 



Agriophara argoplaca, n. sp. 



$. 25-23 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, sides of face more or less infuscated 

 crown posteriorly brownish. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint infuscated, 

 towards base dark fuscous. Antenna; fuscous, cilia tions 7. Thorax pale 

 fuscous. Abdomen light greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 

 2 from angle of cell ; dark bronzy-brown, becoming whitish-fuscous towards 

 dorsum and termen ; a broad white patch extending along costa from near base 

 to J, and reaching nearly half across wing, posterior edge inwardly oblique and 

 somewhat concave; an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line: cilia pale 

 fuscous. Hindwings and cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March, June, and October ; three specimens (de 

 Mowbray, Pole). 



Agriophara encryphias, n. sp. 



$9. 23-24 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, crown fuscous-tinged. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint fuscous except towards apex. Antennse grey. Thorax 

 fuscous mixed with whitish. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, moderately 

 broad, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly arched, apex obtuse 

 termen somewhat oblique, slightly rounded; 7 to termen; white, with some 

 scattered fuscous scales, costa ochreous-tinged, dorsal half suffused with light 

 fuscous ; very small fuscous spots on costa at § and § , giving rise to indistinct 

 oblique series of fuscous dots on costal half of wing ; cloudy subtriantrular 

 spots of dark fuscous suffusion on dorsum before middle and at 3 . a terminal 

 series of minute dark fuscous dots : cilia whitish, tinged with fuscous tcwaid.* 

 tornus. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish with grey subbasal line. 



Khasi Hills ; two specimens (Swinhoe). 



