igo8.] Records of the Indian Museum. 397 



Antennae whitish-ochreous, tips dark gre}'- above. Thorax whitish- 

 ochreous irrorated with blackish, posterior extremity white. Ab- 

 domen grey, beneath white. Fore wings sublanceolate, broadest 

 near base, thence narrowed to acute apex ; rather dark fuscous, 

 with sHght purplish tinge ; two broad white fasciae, first very broad 

 dorsally, where it covers basal third of wing, much narrowed to- 

 wards costa at bej^ond J, margins straight, enclosed basal area of 

 costa ochreous-whitish irrorated with black ; second fascia at f , 

 rather narrowed towards costa, anterior edge straight, posterior 

 convex, oblique : cilia fuscous. Hind wings and cilia gre^^. 



Rangoon, in Februar}^ ; two specimens. I note here that the 

 genus Placostola , Mej^r., founded on a species allied to the above, 

 cannot be maintained as distinct from Stathmoi)oda. 



Stathmopoda calyptrcea, sp. no v. 



$. 10 mm. Head shining white. Palpi white, terminal joint 

 externally with a dark fuscous line. Antenna whitish. Thorax 

 white, on back with a curved dark fuscous transverse line near 

 anterior margin. Abdomen yellowish-fuscous, beneath and at 

 sides white. Fore wings very narrow, widest near base, thence 

 narrowed to acute apex ; dark fuscous ; a white basal patch occu- 

 pying -I of wing, its outer edge inwardly oblique from costa ; 

 some undefined whitish suffusion about f and before apex : cilia 

 fuscous. Hind wings and cilia fuscous. 



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

 specimen. 



Promalactis nebrias, sp. nov. 



2 . 9 mm. Head glossy ochreous-whitish, sides of crown 

 sprinkled with grey. Palpi whitish, second joint yellowish- tinged 

 and transversely striated with dark fuscous, terminal joint with 

 a longitudinal line of dark fuscous irroration on each side. An- 

 tennae white ringed with blackish. Thorax light ochreous-yellow- 

 ish, shoulders black. Abdomen grey. Fore wings lanceolate, 

 apex acute ; light ochreous-yellowish, tinged with deeper yellow 

 in disc posteriorly ; a fine white line edged with black irroration 

 beneath from middle of base to |- of dorsum ; two fine white acutely 

 angulated transverse lines at |- and ^, edged with black irroration, 

 each preceded on costa by an oblique wedge-shaped fuscous blotch 

 irrorated with black, second followed on costa bj^ a larger trian- 

 gular similar blotch extending to f ; from angle of first a fine white 

 line edged with some black scales proceeds to tornus ; an irregu- 

 lar streak of blackish irroration along termen from tornus to apex, 

 marked with small white spots in middle and at apex : cilia pale 

 yellowish, towards base with some blackish specks. Hind wings 

 grey ; cilia pale grey. 



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

 specimen. 



