INDIAN MICR0-LEP1D0PTERA. 987 



ochreous. Abdomen pale shining greyish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate, 

 apex somewhat produced ; shining brassy-yellow ; a very small purplish-fuscous 

 spot on base of costa ; apical half pale shining purplish-bronze, with brassy 

 reflections, its anterior edge marked with some dark fuscous scales and running 

 obliquely from before middle of costa to dorsum near before torn us : cilia 

 shining greyish-ochreous. Hindwings bronzy-grey ; cilia shining greyish- 

 ochreous. 



Two specimens, Palni Hills (6,000 feet), (Campbell). 



Opogona chloracma, n. sp. 



$ 9 . 9-11 mm. Head and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, forehead and face 

 shining ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish-ochreous, basal and second joints 

 externally with a black streak. Antennae ochreous-whitish. Abdomen bronzy- 

 grey. Forewings narrow-lanceolate ; shining bronzy-fuscous, sometimes with 

 faint purplish tinge; a small triangular whitish-ochreous apical spot, anterior 

 edge subconcave, sometimes preceded by darker violet-fuscous suffusion ; cilia 

 bronzy-fuscous, round apical spot whitish-ochreous. Hindwings and cilia 

 bronzy-grey. 



Sixteen specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from April to September (de Mowbray 

 Pole). 



Amathyntis , n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, side-tufts rough behind ; tongue obsolete. 

 Antennas f, in $ simple, basal joint moderate. Labial palpi moderately long, 

 porrected, diverging, with appressed scales, second joint with two or three 

 projecting lateral bristles, terminal joint shorter than second, obtuse. Maxil- 

 lary palpi rather short, several-jointed, filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed with 

 long fine hairs. Forewings with 2 from towards angle, 7 to costa, 11 from 

 before middle. Hindwings under 1, ovate-lanceolate, cilia li : 2-7 separate, 

 nearly parallel. 



An interesting genus which appears to form a direct connection between 

 Tinea and Opogona. 



Amathyntis physatma, n. sp. 



5$. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous-yellowish. Palpi whitish- 

 ochreous more or less suffused with dark fuscous externally except towards 

 apex. Antennas whitish-ochreous, somewhat infuscated above. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, long-pointed, acute ; glossy 

 whitish-ochreous ; some scattered fuscous scales along fold ; an undefined 

 longitudinal streak of fuscous irroration in posterior part of disc, expanded 

 along termen in an undefined patch from apex to tornus : cilia pale whitish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Five specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January and February (Pole). 



Drimylastis, n. g. 



Head densely rough-haired ; tongue obsolete. Antennas f , in $ simple, 

 basal joint moderate, thickened with scales. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, 

 loosely scaled, second joint with two or three long bristles, terminal 



