262 F. Moore — On some Indian Psychidse. [No. 3, 



XIV. — On some Indian Psychidae. — By F. Moore, F. Z. S. 

 [Keceived 30th October ; read 5th November, 1890.] 



Genus Babula (Moore). — Wings short, broad, sparsely covered 

 with short very slender brown hair-like scales. Forewing triangular ; 

 costal margin slightly arched from the base to near its end, the apex 

 rounded, exterior margin oblique ; cell broad, extending to beyond half 

 the length of the wing ; costal vein at its base some distance from the 

 costal margin ; sub-costal vein angled near end of the cell, five-branch- 

 ed, the first and second branches parallel, the first arising at some 

 distance and the second at an angle before end of the cell, third branch 

 trif urcate at one-fourth beyond end of the cell ; discocellular veinlets 

 bent inward at the middle, the radial vein extending from their angle ; 

 within the cell are two discoidal veinlets starting from the upper and 

 lower end of the second discocellular, these coalescing near middle of 

 the cell area and extending to its base ; median vein four-branched, angled 

 at its lowest branch, the two upper branches contiguous and starting 

 together from end of the cell, the two lower branches wide apart ; sub- 

 median vein convexly-angled upward at its middle, and with a short 

 outwardly-oblique lower spur starting from one-fourth of its base. 

 Hindwing oval, broad ; subcostal vein two-branched, the first branch 

 arising before end of the cell ; the cell broad ; upper discocellular vein- 

 let angled outward, the radial extending from the angle ; two dis- 

 coidal veinlets within the cell starting from the upper and lower end 

 of the second discocellular veinlet and coalescing at the middle of the 

 cell area ; median vein angled at end of the cell, four-branched, the 

 two upper bi'anches starting from angles at end of the cell ; a sub- 

 median and two internal veins. Body slender ; abdomen short, slightly 

 pilose ; palpi small, pilose ; antennas short, bipectinated, the pectina- 

 tions delicately plumose and long at base of the shaft ; legs slender, 

 nearly naked, middle and hind tibise with a long appendage. 



Babula grotei (Moore). — Upper and underside uniformly pale 

 cupreous-brown. "Wings sparsely covered with short very slender laxly- 

 disposed hair-like scales ; cilia long, dense. Expanse of wings x§-th of 

 an inch. 



Habitat. Calcutta. (Type in Coll. F. Moore). — The type speci- 

 men was reared from larva, found by the late Arthur Grote, near Cal- 

 cutta, feeding upon the Babul {Acacia arabica). The larva forms an 

 elongated, narrow, cylindrical case about three-fourths of an inch long, 

 and uniformly covered with minute granular particles of bark. 



The following are descriptions of two allied genera and species of 



