396 E. Meyrick : New Micro-lepidoptera. [Voi^. II, 



Gei^echiad^. 

 Ochmastis, gen. nov. 



Head smooth-scaled ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. An- 

 tennse %, in cf simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. I^abial 

 palpi long, recurved, second joint rather short, with moderate 

 projecting tuft of rough hairs towards apex beneath, terminal 

 joint nearly twice as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary 

 palpi very short, filiform, drooping. Posterior tibiae clothed with 

 long hairs above. Fore wings with vein 16 furcate, 2 from near f, 

 3 and 4 approximated from angle, 5 parallel, 6 absent, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hind wings i, elongate-trape- 

 zoidal, termen scarcely sinuate, cilia over i ; 2 widely remote, 3-5 

 rather approximated at base, 6 and 7 long-stalked. 



Belongs to the group of Ypsolophus , in which it is charac- 

 terised by the neuration, 



Ochmastis chionacma, sp. nov. 



cf . 16 mm. Head and thorax white sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi white, second joint blackish except towards apex, 

 terminal joint sprinkled with grey ; with three undefined blackish 

 rings. Antennae blackish ringed with white. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft ochreous-yellowish. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa genth^ 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; white, irre- 

 gularly^ sprinkled with dark fuscous ; two small dark fuscous spots 

 near base above and below middle, upper marked with black ; an 

 irregular quadrate dark fuscous patch on dorsum before middle, 

 reaching f across wing, enclosing an elongate pale yellow-ochreous 

 blotch of somewhat raised scales dilated posteriorly and edged 

 above with a few black scales ; three subconfluent dark fuscous 

 blotches forming an irregular streak from middle of disc to | of 

 costa, crossed by an interrupted thick black streak in disc from 

 before middle to f, and two or three short black streaks on veins 

 beyond this ; an elongate black mark on costa before middle ; 

 apical area forming a roundish clear white spot, edged by a margi- 

 nal black line : cilia white, on costa with three black wedge- 

 shaped spots, round apex with three dark fuscous bars towards 

 tornus suft^used with fuscous and sprinkled on basal half with dark 

 fuscous. Hind wings grey, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia pale 

 grey towards base, ochreous-tinged. 



Dawna Hills (2 — 3,000 feet), lyower Burma, in March ; one 

 specimen. 



Bl^ACHISTlD^. 



Stathmopoda placida, sp. nov. 



5 . lo-ii mm. Crown whitish-ochreous irrorated with fus- 

 cous, face pearly white. Palpi whitish-ochreous, in front white. 



