DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 145 



broad, terminal, united with first by bar beneath costa so as to enclose in disc 

 an orange-red roundish patch containing a yellow spot marked with a dark 

 fuscous dot : cilia pale yellowish, with partial interrupted grey subbasal shad?, 

 at apex and towards tornus suffused with dark purple-grey. Hindwings 

 grey, lighter anteriorly ; cilia yellow-whitish, with pale greyish subbasal 

 shade. 



Khasis, in July ; two specimens. 

 Therapiiis, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennas l, 

 in $ serrulate, minutely ciliated (|), basal joint moderately elongate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed 

 scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 short, filiform, oppressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs 

 above. Forewings with 2 from angle, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia i ; 4 absent, 5-7 tolerably parallel. 

 Apparently allied to Sphyrelata. 

 Therapnis parorma, n. sp. 



£ 12-13 mm., $ 14-16 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax dark fuscous 

 Palpi dark fuscous, slightly whitish-sprinkled, apex of joints whitish. 

 Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded- 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, base of scales ochreous- 

 whitish ; a curved blackish transverse line at ^, followed by more or less 

 whitish -ochreous suffusion often marked or tinged with reddish-ochreous, in £ 

 expanded into a broad fascia not quite reaching costa ; stigmata lar^e, blackish, 

 sometimes edged with whitish-ochreous or yellowish, plical rather beyond 

 first discal, usually an additional smaller spot between and above discal, in <£ 

 obliterated with reddish-ochreous and merged in the pale costal patch 

 following ; a blackish interrupted line rising from costa at f, sinuate downwards 

 and running to near apex, thence very near termen to dorsum before tornus, 

 on costa preceded by a suffused whitish-ochreous patch, larger in g, and 

 preceded in discal angulation by a smaller spot of whitish-ochreous or reddish- 

 ochreous suffusion : cilia light fuscous, basal half sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 or blackish. Hindwings rather dark grey : cilia grey. 



Kegalle, Madulsima, Haputale, Kalutara, Matale, Ceylon (Alston, Pole 

 Vaughan) ; from May to August, six specimens. 

 Erotis, n. g. 



Head small, with appressed scales , ocelli present ; tongue developed. 

 Antennae £, in £ serrulate, simple, basal joint moderate, with pecten of short 

 scales. Labial palpi long, recurved, widely diverging, second joint reaching 

 base of antennae, somewhat expanded towards apex with rather rough scales, 

 terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi short, 

 filiform, appressed to tongue. Thorax rather swollen. Anterior tibiae dilated 

 with rough scales ; posterior tibiae clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings 

 with 2 from about £, 3 from angle, 4 absent, 5 rather approximated to 3, 7 and 

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