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Supa, Kanara, bred in May (Maxwell) ; one specimen. Larva feeding 

 on " Akri " (Maxwell) ; the cocoou (forwarded) is very flat, oval, attached 

 to surface of leaf, whitish-ochreous, with four scattered bubbles on its sur- 

 face, apparently similar to those on the cocoon of Epicephala chalybacma. 

 Allied to jyatricia ; tuft of palpi unusually long. 



Ac7-ocercops scenias, n. sp. 



2 . 7 mm. Head white, crown mixed with dark fuscous. (Labial palpi 

 broken.) Thorax white mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, 

 beneath white, with lateral series of oblique black bars. Forewings ex- 

 tremely narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; brown irregularly mixed with black ; 

 four triangular white dorsal blotches reaching costa except fourth, their 

 dorsal edge mixed with brown and strigulated with black, first two confluent 

 dorsally and extending from base to | of wing, third beyond middle, just 

 touching second and fourth, fourth tornal ; costa from second to apex 

 dotted with white ; a blackish dash above posterior edge of fourth ; a small 

 white spot on term en towards apex : cilia grey, round a[,>ex white with 

 dark fuscous line. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey. 



Karwar, Kanara, bred in June (Maxwell) ; one specimen. Larva bright 

 green, mining galleries in leaves of " Changana " bush, many larvae in each 

 leaf ; pupa long, green, in oval white transparent cocoon on depressed vein 

 of leaf (Maxwell). Allied to telestis. 



Stomphastis plectica, Meyr. 



Larva mining blotches in leaves of Sehastiana chamcelea (^EuijTiorbiaceos) ; 

 pupa in detached oval white cocoon in depression on top of leaf, preferring 

 the extreme tip ( Maxwell ). This insect occurs also in South Africa. 



CyphosticJia pterocola, n. sp. 



cJ ? . 9 mm. Head whitish, face ochreous-tinged, sides of forehead 

 marked with dark fuscous. Palpi slender, whitish, second and terminal 

 joints each with two bands of dark fuscous irroration. Thorax white, patagia 

 ochreous-grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Middle 

 tibise and tarsi thickened with dense scales, dark fuscous, with whitish band 

 before apex of tarsi ; posterior tibise dark fuscous, apex white, tarsi white, 

 three basal joints with blackish apical bands and projections of rough scales 

 above.- Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceolate, purple-greyish-ochre- 

 ous irrorated with dark fuscous ; an irregular-edged attenuated white streak 

 running along dorsum from base to about tornus, marked with some minute 

 scattered brownish strigulse : cilia grey, round apex whitish-grey with violet 

 reflections and three dark grey lines. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



N. Coorg, at 3,500 feet, in January (Newcome) ; two specimens. A pecu- 

 liar species, possibly worthy of generic separation on the tarsal characters. 



Gracilaria ariana, n. sp. 



$ . 13 mm. Head crimson-grey, face white. Palpi slender, crimson, 

 towards apex dark fuscous. Thorax yellow, suflused with light greyish- 

 crimson anteriorly. Abdomen grey, apex whitish. Middle tibise crimson, 

 externally suflused with dark grey, tarsi white. Forewings very narrowly 

 elongate-lanceolate ; bright clear yellow ; costal edge ferruginous-tinged 

 towards base ; a narrow purple-coppery streak along dorsum from base 

 throughout, extending at apex to costa, about ^ of breadth of wing, marked 

 along dorsum with a series of deep indigo-blue strigulse : cilia light ochreous- 

 grey, becoming violet-coppery round apex. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Pundaloya, Ceylon, in September (G-reen) ; one specimen. Allied to 

 isochrysa. 



Hyvosom'e.vtidm. 

 LyeopJiantis, n. g. 



Head on crown with rough spreading hairs, face with appressed scales ; 

 ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae I, in cJ simple, basal joint 



