DESCRIPTIONS OF INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 461 



Timyra prceceptrix, n. sp. 



$ $ • 21-25 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, sides of crown yellowish, face 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi in both sexes sickle-shaped, pale yellowish, lined 

 with blackish, in S with second joint clothed with loose hairs above. 

 Antennae in S with strong basal tuft of blackish and yellowish scales. 

 Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, variably mixed with yellow, with a whitish 

 line on each side of back. Abdomen fuscous more or less wholly 

 suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish. Posterior tibiae with large median 

 tuft of long curved purplish-fuscous and ochreous-yellow scales tipped 

 with black. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique ; 7 to apex, 9 out of 7 

 or separate ; dark purplish-fuscous ; basal, median, and terminal areas 

 marked with suffused longitudinal orange streaks which are very 

 variable in development, but discontinuous between the areas, most 

 largely developed in g ; in <5 a cloudy transverse ochreous-whitish or 

 pale orange transverse line before middle ; two short white streaks on 

 veins 8 and 9 towards costa ; a whitish line along termen : cilia whitish- 

 fuscous, with three blackish-fuscous lines . Hindwings rather dark fuscous 

 in S more or less suffusedly mixed with ochreous-yellowish along a 

 broad longitudinal median area ; in S a subdorsal groove enclosing an 

 expansible pencil of very long whitish-ochreous hairs ; cilia fuscous suffuser 

 with yellowish on upper half of termen, with two fuscous shades. 



Maskeliya, Pundaluoya, Bogawantalawa, Dickoya, and Maturatta, Ceylon 

 (Pole, Green, de Mowbray) ; from February to April, and August to Octo- 

 ber ; twelve specimens. Larger than mendicella, without the white basal 

 lines of forewings, and further distinguished in S by the hairs of second 

 joint of palpi and yellowish suffusion of hindwings. 



Epimimastis glaucodes, n. sp. 



o* . 16-17 mm. Head and thorax light grey, lower part of face darker 

 grey. Palpi grey, anterior edge darker. Abdomen light grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen rounded, rather oblique ; grey ; a black dot near base above 

 middle ; an oval blackish blotch in disc before middle, edged with white ; 

 second discal stigma black edged with white ; apex and termen somewhat 

 suffused with darker, with a blackish marginal line : cilia light grey. 

 Hindwings light grey ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in June and September (Pole) ; three specimens. 



Dactylethra globulata, n. sp. 



<S . 11-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders some- 

 times sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi brown mixed with blackish, second 

 joint white anteriorly, terminal joint white with two fine rings of blackish 

 irroration. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather nar- 

 row, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 



