INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 979 



Spatalistis cyanoxaniha, n. sp. 



$Q. 8-10 mm. Head and palpi orange-yellow. Thorax orange suffused 

 with brown. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa gently arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen concave, oblique ; orange strigulated with darker, 

 suffused with fuscous except towards costa and termen ; two spots at base and 

 four angulated transverse series of about four rounded leaden-blue-metallic 

 spots each, alternating with some small blackish tufts ; some pale golden 

 metallic dots on posterior half of costa and termen : cilia clear yellow, beneath 

 tornus orange becoming fuscous on dorsum. Hindwings rather dark grey; 

 cilia grey, round apex and upper half of termen whitish-yellowish. 



Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from April to June (de Mowbray, Pole). 



Spatalistis hormoia, n. sp. 



$9- 15-17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light ochreous-yellowish. Abdo- 

 men whitish-ochreous. Forewings oblong, costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen concave, rather oblique ; light ochreous-yellowish, finely 

 strigulated with deeper ochreous ; a slender slightly incurved deep yellow- 

 ochreous streak, sometimes sprinkled with a few dark fuscous points, from 

 apex of wing to § of dorsum, continued along dorsum to near base : cilia pale 

 whitish-yellow, with traces of an ochreous line. Hindwings whitish-ochreous, 

 posteriorly broadly suffused with fuscous-ochreous, apex more fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, round apex and upper part of termen whitish-yellowish. 



Twenty specimens, Khasi Hills, in June and July. 



Spatalistis rhopica, n. sp. 



$$. 14-16 mm. Head, palpi and thorax light yellowish. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings suboblong, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 concave, rather oblique ; pale yellowish, finely strigulated with light ochreous ; 

 about seven oblique transverse series of silvery-metallic dots ; small discal tufts 

 above middle at 5 and §■, sometimes tipped with dark ferruginous-fuscous ; 

 often a large deep ferruginous semiovate blotch extending along dorsum from 

 \ to beyond tornus, posteriorly reaching more than half across wing and with 

 an oblique projection inwards, but this blotch is sometimes wholly absent : cilia 

 whitish-yellowish, at tornus sometimes ferruginous or dark grey. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous or grey, posteriorly more or less suffused with brown or dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, round apex and upper half of termen whitish-yellowish, 

 basal half more or less ferruginous-tinged. 



Fifteen specimens, Khasi Hills, in June. 



Diactenis, n v g. 



Antennae in $ moderately ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint 

 above with rough projecting scales diminishing to apex. Forewings with 

 raised scales on surface ; lb simple, 3 and 4 closely approximated from angle, 

 7 to termen, cell in $ very short and narrow. Hindwings §-, cilia 1^ ; 3 and 4 

 separate, cell open between 4 and 6, 4 and 5 rising as branches of parting- 

 vein from near base, 6 and 7 as branches of upper margin of cell from before 

 middle. 



