DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 109 



without tuft. Palpi moderately long, white. Antennse whitish. Thorax 

 silvery-grey. Abdomen whitish. Forewings very narrow, elongate- 

 lanceolate, acutely pointed, caudulate ; pale ochreous-yellowish ; a coppery- 

 bronze patch occupying basal % of wing, longitudinally streaked with 

 blackish suffusion in disc, brassy-metallic towards dorsum and posterior 

 edo'e, which is inwardly oblique from costa ; an inwardly oblique brassy- 

 metallic fascia beyond middle, marked with two black longitudinal dashes, 

 and terminating above in a black subcostal line which runs to near apex ; 

 a brassy-metallic streak along termen, edged above with a black line 

 except near apex ; a black apical spot : cilia grey, at apex with a blackish 

 hook-projection and another less marked beneath it, on costa wholly white. 

 Hindwings rather dark gre}"- ; cilia grey. 



Khasis, in October ; two specimens, 



Lyonetia praefulva, n. sp. 



5 $. 8-11 mm. Head, palpi and thorax white, occipital tuft moderate. 

 Antennse dark grey, eyecap white. Abdomen grey. Forewings very 

 narrow, elongate-lanceolate, acutely pointed, caudulate ; shining white ; a 

 ferruginoiis-brown apical blotch, its anterior edge strongly convex, 

 margined by a suflused dark fuscous streak running from costa beyond 

 middle to tornus, where it is sometimes enlarged into a triangular spot ; a 

 round black apical dot mostly in cilia : cilia grey, on costa with three dark 

 fuscous bars jDreceded hy spots of whitish suffusion, at apex with project- 

 ing blackish bar and an oblique one below it, on termen with a blackish 

 subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; Khasis ; from March to June, and from 

 October to December, eight specimens. 



Pnjtaneutis, n. g. 



Head smooth ; tongue absent. Antennte 4, in $ simple, basal joint 

 dilated with scales so as to form a moderate eyecap. Labial palpi short, 

 drooping, filiform, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior 

 tibiae clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewings with 3 absent, 

 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 10 absent, 11 from before middle. 

 Hindwings under -\, linear, cilia 6 ; transverse vein absent between 

 2 and 5, 3 absent, 4 absent, 5-7 approximated at base. 



Allied to Lyoneiia, which however has the antennse always longer than 

 forewings. 



Prytaneutis clavigera, n. sp. 



J 5 . 8-11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antennse grey, basal joint w^hite. 

 Thorax whitish-grey, in S with an expansible tuft of long fine hairs from 

 beneath hindwings. Hairs of posterior tibise whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate-lanceolate, apex caudate, rather upturned ; pale glossy purplish- 

 grey; costal edge white from base to an oblique white strigula at ^, reaching 

 half across wing : a longitudinal orange-yellow mark in disc beneath this 



