DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN M1CR0-LEPID0PTERA. 149 



line to dorsum before tornus : cilia fuscous somewhat mixed with dark fuscous, 

 base suffused with whitish-ochreous. Hindwings in £ light fuscous, in 9 

 rather dark fuscous ; cilia light fuscous. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in June, October, and November, four 

 specimens. 



Macrosaces Jiemilyca, n. sp. 



$$. 11-13 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, somewhat sprin- 

 kled with whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous sprinkled with blackish, 

 second joint moderately thickened, terminal joint as long as second, with two 

 broad blackish bands occupying nearly all of it. Antennae whitish-ochreous 

 more or less suffused with fuscous, and ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, ter- 

 men very obliquely rounded ; 3 separate or short stalked with 2 ; dark fuscous 

 base of scales whitish-ochreous ; a blackish subcostal tuft near base ; a cloudy 

 blackish raised rather curved direct transverse shade at ± edged posteriorly 

 more or less widely with whitish-ochreous suffusion ; second discal stigma 

 raised, cloudy, blackish, with an additional less marked dot below it ; a rather 

 large spot of whitish-ochreous suffusion on costa about £, whence an indistinct 

 anguiated cloudy whitish-ochreous line runs to dorsum before tornus, edged 

 anteriorly with blackish irroration : cilia fuscous mixed with darker, sometimes 

 sprinkled with whitish-ochreous points, base whitish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 rather dark fuscous, anterior half sometimes pale whitish-ochreous ; cilia 

 fuscous. 



Palnis, 6,000 feet (Campbell) ; four specimens. The variation in the colour 

 of hindwings is singular ; it is not sexual, as the specimens include male and 

 female of each form ; and as the two forms agree in other respects, especially 

 in the characteristic markings of the palpi, and are from the same locality, it is 

 improbable that they are specifically distinct. I regard the form with the basa 

 half of hindwings pale as being the type, and think the other form with 

 hindwings wholly dark deserves a varietal name ; I therefore name it var. 

 ecliptica. 



Macrosaces orphania, n. sp. 



$ 15-16 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown irrorated with dark fuscous. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint moderately thickened, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous except at apex, terminal joint as long as second, with dark fus- 

 cous subbasal and subapical rings. Antennae whitish-ochreous ringed with 

 dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, base of scales whitish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous mixed with fuscous. Forewing elongate, narrow, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; 2 and 3 short-stalked; whitish-ochreous more or less densely irrorated 

 with fuscous and dark fuscous, sometimes suffused with fuscous ; a dark 

 fuscous subcostal tuft towards base ; a rather curved cloudy dark fuscous 

 transverse raised line at f , indistinctly edged with whitish-ochreous posteriorly 

 nearly straight from below costa to below middle ; second discal stigma 



