. Descriptions of Indian Micro-lepidoptera. Lepidoptera. ;;(5-^«J isC Journ., Bom. Nat. mat. Soc, Vol. XVII., No. 3, [Feb. 15, 1907, and beneath, Forewings light yellow-ochreous ; costa with about twelve short whitish strigula) edged with dark fuscous ; apex suffused with blackish ; basal third of wing irrorated with dark fuscous ; median and subterminalzigzag bands of dark fuscous irroratiou, margined by whitish lines edged with dark fuscous, obsolete on costal lobe ; apex of each lobe with a black dot, Hindwinga as forewings, but costal lobe marked like the rest, median band nearer base. Bho
. Descriptions of Indian Micro-lepidoptera. Lepidoptera. ;;(5-^«J isC Journ., Bom. Nat. mat. Soc, Vol. XVII., No. 3, [Feb. 15, 1907, and beneath, Forewings light yellow-ochreous ; costa with about twelve short whitish strigula) edged with dark fuscous ; apex suffused with blackish ; basal third of wing irrorated with dark fuscous ; median and subterminalzigzag bands of dark fuscous irroratiou, margined by whitish lines edged with dark fuscous, obsolete on costal lobe ; apex of each lobe with a black dot, Hindwinga as forewings, but costal lobe marked like the rest, median band nearer base. Bhotan, in June ; several specimens in collection of Calcutta Museum, to which I am indebted for examples. Near sikkima, Moore, but that is a grey species. _ 'ICMtryy-^J^X. EPIBLEMIDiE.) Chrosis ephippias, n, sp, ^ $, 11-16 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, sometimes partially tinged with brownish-ochreous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, Forewings elongate, rather broader in $, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, somewhat oblique ; whitish-ochreous, strewn with brownish- ochreoiis striguke which are finely sprinkled with black ; costa more sharply and darkly strigulated throughout ; basal patch very obscurely indicated, edge obtusely angulated in middle ; upper half of central fascia dark-brown, truncate beneath, posterior edge with a strong acute projection above trunca- tion ; rest of central fascia represented by an elongate dark-brown discal mark at |, its anterior end sometimes curved and connected with costal half, and a brown blotch with two upward diverging lobes on dorsum towards tornus ; a triangular brown spot in disc towards apex ; a small dark brown apical spot : cilia ochreous-whitish, sprinkled with fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings with G and 7 stalked, rather dark fuscous; cilia as in forewings, Puttalam and INTaskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray, Green, Vaughan); Bombay (Young") ; from July to April, twenty spe
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