DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 107 



greyish. Hindwings light ochreous-yellow, with four thick curved whitish 

 lines, first two enclosing a moderately broad slightly darker antemedian 

 fascia; cilia as in forewings, greyish on antemedian fascia. 



Palni Hills (6,000 feet), and Gooty (Campbell) ; two specimens. 



Orneodes lyristis, n. sp. 



J 13 mm. Head white sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi moderately 

 long, subascending, second joint thickened with dense scales angularly 

 projecting at apex beneath, dark fuscous sprinkled with white, terminal 

 joint § of second, rather thick, white with dark fuscous median band. 

 Antennje whitish-fuscous. Thorax grey sprinkled with dark fuscous and 

 white. Abdomen with basal segment dark fuscous, marked with white on 

 posterior margin, next four segments blackish, with margins somewhat 

 marked with white, remainder ochreous-whitish with a few blackish scales. 

 Forewings ochreous-whitish closely irrorated with dark fuscous; three 

 blackish marks along costa on anterior half, terminated at each extremitj- 

 by fine white strigulee : a moderately broad nearly straight median fascia, 

 edged with dark fuscous and then with fine white lines, slightly angulated 

 near costa, widest on sixth segment ; a subquadrate dark fuscous spot on 

 costa beyond this, with white lateral margins which are curved round on 

 costa so as to be continuous with preceding and following white lines ; a 

 moderate straight dark fuscous subterminal fascia, edged with fine white 

 lines ; a blackish dot at apex of each segment : cilia pale fuscous, with 

 whitish bars on lines, on median and subterminal fasciee dark fviscous, on 

 space between these pale yellowish between second and third segments, 

 and between fourth and sixth. Hindwings whitish, with scattered dots of 

 dark fuscous irroration ; basal area irrorated with dark fuscous up to 

 a moderately broad blackish antemedian fascia edged with white, remainder 

 of first two segments also irrorated with dark fuscous, with two white dots : 

 cilia fuscous mixed with dark fuscous and barred with whitish, on segments 

 3-6 whitish on posterior half with light fuscous bars towards apex. 



Khasis, in May ; one specimen. 



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Nepticula polydoaa, n. sp. 



S ' 3 mm. Head pale yellowish. Antennae grey, eyecaps yellow- whitish. 

 Thorax dark grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate ; jdark shining- 

 purplish grey ; a somewhat oblique bright silvery-metallic fascia at about §, 

 preceded by blackish irroration, apical area beyond this wholly sufi"used 

 with blackish irroration : cilia grey mixed with blackish, outer half silvery- 

 whitish, on tornus with a silvery-metallic jDatch posterior to fascia, but 

 connected with it. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green) ; in April, one specimen. Characterised by 

 the small size, and silvefy tornal patch in cilia. 



