ELACHISTID.3S.—GRACILARIAD^I. 
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Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8800 feet, June (T. B. Fletcher ); 33 ex. 
Perhaps nearest the European holdenella. Probably the female, of 
which no specimen was taken, is sluggish in flight. 
GRACILARIADiE. 
Phyllocnistis argothea, n. sp. 
cJ. 4 mm. Head, palpi, thorax silyery-white. Eorewings 
silvery-white ; two fine indistinct fuscous parallel lines in disc from 
base to about middle; some faint yellowish suffusion above these 
posteriorly; a fine oblique dark fuscous strigula from costa before 
middle, a direct one slightly beyond middle, a slightly curved rather 
inwards-oblique line from costa at | to dorsum, apical portion of 
wing suffused yellowish, a minute dark fuscous transverse strigula 
before a round black apical dot: cilia white, a fine direct dark 
fuscous bar on second strigula, a somewhat oblique one on transverse 
line, a direct one on prseapical strigula, and a more oblique one 
between these, three short indistinct ones diverging from apex, and 
a curved line from beneath apex enclosing a hemispherical light 
yellowish patch on termen. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish. 
Bihar, Pusa, bred December from larvae mining leaves of 
Putranjivci Roxburghii ( Eujphorbiacece ); 3 ex. The only other 
species of the genus hitherto bred from an Euphorbiaceous plant is 
the Australian diciugella Meyr. 
Lithocolletis zonochares, n. sp. 
c? 2 • 8-10 mm. Hairs of crown ochreous-brownish, sometimes 
tinged whitish centrally, face shining grey-whitish. Palpi grey, 
internally whitish. Thorax golden-brownish, apex of tegulse tinged 
whitish. Eorewings golden-bronzy-brown ; a slender silvery-white 
median streak from base to near f, strongly edged dark fuscous 
above and slightly beneath; a small silvery-white dorsal spot 
towards base, followed and sometimes preceded by dark fuscous 
suffusion ; a narrow slightly curved silvery-white transverse ante- 
median fascia strongly edged dark fuscous suffusion anteriorly, 
seldom interrupted into two spots by an angular projection from 
this suffusion in disc; three silvery-white direct wedgeshaped costal 
spots posteriorly, a triangular spot before tornus, and a dot on 
middle of termen, all these spots finely edged dark fuscous anteriorly, 
discal space between these variably suffused dark fuscous, a dark 
fuscous streak along termen sometimes obliterating the dot, its 
apical end black : cilia whitish-grey, basal half pale blue or bluish- 
grey, limited by a variably developed dark grey or blackish line. 
Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8800 feet, June (T . B. Fletcher ); 35 ex. 
Allied to menaea , described from a single specimen, which is 
however a much smaller insect, with fascia differently formed from 
any of these examples, with long lower arm. 
