INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 167 



Chelana particulata, n. sp. 



S . 10-12 mm. Head and thorax grey irrorated with whitish. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint blackish except apex, with short projecting apical tuft 

 beneath, terminal joint somewhat thickened with scales except apex, with 

 three blackish rings. Abdomen grey, anal tuft greyish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen 

 extremely obliquely rounded ; 6 separate, 7 and 8 stalked ; grey, irrorated 

 with whitish ; a series of small dark fuscous spots along costa, one before 

 middle rather larger and elongate ; an elongate dark fuscous mark on fold 

 at -I of wing ; a small dark fuscous spot in disc at f ; some brownish 

 suffusion and irregular dark fuscous irroration towards apex : cilia grey 

 sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings dark grey, thinly scaled anteriorly ; 

 cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in January, February, May and September, 

 five specimens. 



Encolapta^ n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennas 

 4, in c? simple, basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial 

 palpi long, recurved, second joint with short apical tuft beneath, terminal 

 joint longer than second, somewhat thickened with scales except at apex, 

 acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 

 tibife clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 2 from towards angle 

 3 absent, 4 from angle, 6 and 8 stalked, 6 to apex, 7 absent, 11 from 

 middle. Hindwings |, elongate-trapezoidal, apex round-pointed, termen 

 beneath apex somewhat bisinuate, oblique, cilia 1^ ; 3-6 closely approxima- 

 ted at base, (5 and 7 long-stalked. 



Allied to the early forms of Chelaria, but differing essentially in the 

 absence of vein 3 of forewings. 



Eneolapta metorcha, n. sp. 



S . 14-15 mm. Head and thorax dark grey irrorated with white. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint with 

 subbasal and supramedian blackish rings. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, 

 apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; grey or fuscous 

 irrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales ; a series of small 

 blackish spots along costa, one in middle rather larger and elongate ; some 

 irregular scattered groups of dark fuscous scales in disc ; a prsemarginal 

 series of cloudy dark fuscous spots round posterior part of costa and 

 termen : cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, basal half barred with dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly, veins and 

 termen darker ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (cle Mowbray, Pole) ; in January and April, two 

 specimens. 



Anarsia, Zell. 



I have referred Stainton's Anarsia Candida to the genus Dactylethra, but 

 ] have described one true Indian Anarsia, ephippias, Meyr. ; I now describe 

 eight more, and refer one of Walker's species here. 



Anarsia phortica, n. sp. 



S 9 • 13-15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, variably irrorated 

 with grey. Palpi in S dark fuscous, in 9 whitish, second joint irrorated 

 with dark fuscous, terminal joint with blackish subbasal ring and submedian 

 and supramedian subconfluent bands. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, widest at \, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; white, irregularly mixed with grey ; a dark grey 

 median band extending from \ to |, widest on dorsum, posterior \ of this 

 band occupied by a black blotch reaching from costa to fold ; an irregular 



