INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 859 



suffusion. Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, without fold, apex round-pointed, termen sinviate, somewhat 

 oblique ; fuscous, irrorated with whitish or whitish-ochreous, and strigulat- 

 ed with blackish ; costa blackish, before middle with two, and beyond it 

 with five pairs of whitish strigulse, giving rise to more or less marked blue- 

 leaden-metallic strise, those from posterior half very oblique, and subcostal 

 space between them more or less ferruginous ; basal patch brownish strigu- 

 lated with black, outer edge angulated below middle, little marked ; 

 central fascia slender, brown, strigulated with black, little defined ; ocellus 

 obscurely margined with blue-leaden metallic: cilia brownish sprinkled with 

 whitish, variably marked with dark fuscous, especially at apex. Hindwings 

 with 3 and 4 stalked ; fuscous, very thinly scaled, semi-hyaline, with violet- 

 purple reflections, in $ darker posteriorly ; veins blackish ; in S on under- 

 surface with a black patch along costa, from base to beyond middle, costal 

 edge on this furnished with very long fine hairs ; cilia grey, darker towards 

 base. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alston) ; Khasis ; in May, and from 

 October to December, five specimens. The characteristic hindwings dis- 

 tinguish this species. 



Acrodita neaera, n. sp. 



cJ $ . 12-13 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint 

 mostly occupied by three dark fuscous spots. Thorax olive-greenish mixed 

 with black and white, Forewings elongate, rather narrow, slightly dilated 

 posteriorly, costa gently arched, without fold, apex round-pointed, termen 

 sinuate, somewhat obliqne ; dull olive-greei; suffusedly strigulated with 

 white ; markings margined and irregularly strigulated with black ; basal 

 patch represented by blotch at base and angulated fascia beyond it : 

 central fascia moderate, obliqvie, interrupted below middle ; costa poste- 

 riorly blackish, with four pairs of whitish strigulee, giving rise to oblique 

 purplish-leaden strigse ; ocellus margined laterally by purplish-leaden 

 streaks mixed with whitish, and surmounted by a blackish spot ; a black 

 terminal line : cilia olive-greenish, outer half dark grey irrorated with 

 whitish, round apex wholly blackish-irrorated. Hindwings with 3 and 4 

 stalked ; dark grey, thinly scaled in disc ; cilia rather dark grey. Fore- 

 Avings on undersurface in S suffused with blackish on costal half from base 

 to beyond middle. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in May and June, two specimens. 



Acrodita chlorissa, n. sp. 



(S 2 . 12-14 mm. Head and thorax green, shoulders suffused with 

 blackish. Palpi green, obscurely spotted with blackish. Forewings elon- 

 gate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa slightly arched, in (^ with narrow 

 fold extending from base to |, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, some- 

 what oblique ; green ; markings obscurely edged with iridescent-whitish ; 



