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 DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY 



E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 XVI. 



{Continued from page ^77 of Volume XXI.) 



GrBLECHIAD^E. 



Tituacia, Walk. 



Characters of Chelaria, but forewings with 3 and 4 stalked from angle 

 of cell ; hindwings with 3 and 4 connate. Stomylia, Snell, is a synonym. 



Tituacia deviella, Walk. 



{Tituacia deviella, Walk., Cat. XXIX, 812 ; Stomylia erosella, Snell., Tijd. 

 V. Ent. XXII, 14, pi. VIII, 1-6.) 



Maskeliya and Madulsima, Ceylon (Pole, Green) ; in March, April, and 

 September. Also from Java and Borneo. 



Palintropa, n.g. 



Head with aj)pressed scales; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennse 

 4, in S serrulate, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very 

 long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense scales above, beneath 

 with broad rough tuft of projecting scales, terminal joint longer than 

 second, thickened with scales, posteriorly with dense rough projecting 

 scales except at apex, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, 

 appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae with rough scales above, Forewings 

 with 2 from angle, 3 absent, 6 to apex, 7 and 8 stalked, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings §, narrowly elongate-trapezoidal, apex pointed, produced, 

 termen beneath apex bisinuate, very oblique, cilia 3 ; 3 absent, 4 and 5 

 connate, 6 and 7 stalked. 



A development of Chelaria. 



Talintroiia hij^pica, n. sp. 



S . 13-14 mm. Head and thorax fuscous irrorated with whitish. Palpi 

 clothed with series of grey white-tipped scales, tuft of second joint mixed 

 with grey and whitish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous 

 and brownish. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa slightly arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous 

 irrorated with whitish ; a dark brown patch irregularly irrorated with 

 blackish extending along costa from I to near apex, and reaching more 

 than half across wing, limited beneath before middle by a large tuft of 

 scales on fold ; a silvery-grey-whitish line crossing wing at |, on lower 

 half dilated into a spot preceded and followed by light brownish-ochreous 

 spaces and margined anteriorly by a dark fuscous tuft of scales ; a silvery- 

 whitish angulated transverse line immediately before apex : cilia fuscous 

 irrorated with whitish, towards base tinged with whitish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, thinly scaled and semi-transparent in disc anteriorly ; 

 cilia fuscous, suffused with whitish-ochreous towards base on lower f of 

 termen. 



Maskeliya and Madulosima, Ceylon (Pole, Green) ; in December and 

 March, two specimens. 

 Chelaria, Haw. 



Labial palpi with second joint clothed beneath with single or double 

 tuft of scales, rarely with scales appressed beneath but rough above, 

 terminal joint longer than second, thickened with scales usually forming 

 a more or less distinct projection posteriorly, acute. Forewings often 



