INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 867 



suffusion running from lower angle of costal patch to apex ; ocellus obscure- 

 ly edged with leaden-metallic and marked with blackish ; a black terminal 

 line : cilia pale ochreous mixed with grey and sprinkled with whitish. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey, thinly scaled, with violet reflections,, 

 veins and termen dark fuscous ; cilia grey, tips whitish. 



Khasis ; in September and October, two specimens. 



Eucosma ludicra, n. sp. 



J $ . 13-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light yellow-ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, without fold, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, somewhat oblique ; light yellow-ochreous, 

 in and above cell suffused with ferruginous-brown, veins posteriorly marked 

 with ferruginous-brown lines ; costa indistinctly strigulated with ferrugin- 

 ous-brown, whitish-sprinkled on interspaces; some more or less developed 

 dark fuscous strigulation about submedian fold from near base to before 

 middle ; a silvery-metallic transverse mark before median portion of termen 

 preceded by three short blackish dashes ; an oblique silvery-metallic mark 

 before apex : cilia whitish-ochreous sprinkled with ferruginous-ochreous. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grey, in (S paler ; cilia whitish, dorsum in 

 (5 clothed with long rough expanded blackish bristly hairs. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in November, four specimens. 



Eucosma spicea, n. sp. 



(S . 13 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint of palpi with 

 a faint fuscous spot. Thorax ochreous. Posterior tibise and basal joint of 

 tarsi densely tufted with whitish hairs, posteriorly suffused with light 

 greyish. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; 

 pale ochreous ; costa strigulated with blackish and whitish ; a broad 

 suffused ferruginous median streak from base to end of cell and thence to 

 apex, sprinkled with blackish posteriorly, terminal area of wing suffused 

 with light ferruginous ; two or three oblique leaden-metallic strigee from 

 posterior half of costa ; leaden-metallic marks on middle of termen and 

 tornus ; cilia whitish-yellowish, with ochreous subbasal line. Hindwings. 

 with rather contorted subdorsal fold, 3 and 4 stalked ; dark grey, towards,, 

 base lighter and thinly scaled ; cilia pale grey, with dark grey subbasal line. 



Khasis ; in June, one specimen. 



Eucosina litigiosa, n. sp. 



(S $ . 20-22 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark fuscous and 

 sprinkled with whitish. Palpi dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently 

 arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen somewhat sinuate, little oblique ; 

 grey, irregularly mixed with white and strigulated with dark fuscous, some- 

 times partially suffused with brownish or light ochreous, especially tending 

 to form a patch in disc beyond middle; costa spotted and strigulated with 



