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DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY 

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



XII. 



(Continued from page 168 of this Volume.) 



GeLECHIADjE 



Narthecoceros logica, n. sp. 



cJ . 13-14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Palpi fuscous- 

 whitish, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous. Antennte ochreous- 

 whitish, with two blackish bands before apex. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen hardly sinuate, 

 oblique ; fuscous-whitish, sometimes partially and variably sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous ; a suffused dark fuscous streak along costa from about £ to 

 apex ; two small cloudy dark fuscous spots transversely placed at end of 

 cell : cilia ochreous-whitish, variably irrorated with fuscous and dark 

 fuscous, especially about apex. Hind wings grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 more or less tinged or suffused with grey except towards base. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alston) ; in November and December, 

 four specimens. 



Frisilia, Walk. 



Head with appressed scales, side-tufts in S more or less projecting over 

 forehead ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennas over 1, in <$ simple, 

 more or less thickened and roughened towards base, basal joint moderate, 

 without pecten. Labial palpi in <5 with second joint short, with dense 

 projecting tuft of scales beneath, terminal joint wholly clothed with dense 

 rough scales, twisted or bent over so as to form another longer tuft lying 

 above the former ; in $ recurved with second joint expanded with rough 

 scales above towards apex, beneath with more or less developed projecting 

 tuft of rough scales, terminal joint longer than second, slender, acute. 

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

 clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings in $ with subdorsal groove 

 edged with dense scales from base to tornus ; 2 and 3 stalked or 3 usually 

 absent in tf and seldom in $ , 4 out of 2 in J and seldom in $ , 7 to 

 i termen, 8 and 9 out of 7 or 8 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trape- 

 zoidal, termen somewhat sinuate, cilia §-£ ; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 somewhat 

 approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 



This genus supersedes Macremis, Meyr. It is a development of Lecithoeera 

 | from which it is distinguished in both sexes by the tufted palpi, and further 

 in the <5 by the peculiarly modified terminal joint thereof, and the character- 

 istic subdorsal furrow, which are found in all the species. Walker described 

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