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Show 884 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Dec. 1, Fam. CRYPTOLECHIAD^E, Meyrich. DEPRESSARIA ? 211. DEPRESSARIA SWINHOEI, Butler, P.Z.S. 1883, p. 174. Poona, October. There are five specimens in the collection: they have not the depressed bodies of the genus Depressaria, from which the neuration of the hind wings also serves to separate them. The junction of veins 6 and 7 of the hind wings would place them, according to Mr. Meyrich's system of classification, in the Cryptolechiadae : but the name of this family should perhaps be altered, for I find on examining the type of Zeller's Cryptolechia straminella from South Africa, which is the original type of the genus, veins 6 and 7 of the hind wings are not even closely approximated at the base, but run nearly parallel as in Depressariadae and (Ecophoridae. BINSITTA, Walker. 212. BINSITTA NIVIFERANA. Binsitta niviferana, Walker, xxix. 832. Bombay, October. One female. GELECHIA. 213. GELECHIA UMBRIPENNIS, sp. nov. Bombay ; Poona, April. Reared from Cawnpore cotton. Palpi long, recurved, the second joint smoothly scaled, not tufted, pale ochreous, dull umber-brown externally over two thirds of the length of the second joint. Head, antennae, thorax, and fore wings dark umber-brown, with two inconspicuous darker spots, the first above and before the middle ; the second equidistant from the costal and dorsal margins, at the end of the cell. Abdomen and hind wings pale cinereous (fore and hind wings rather shining) ; legs pale cinereous. Expanse, c? 15 millim., 5 18 millim. 214. CHELARIA INDICA, sp. n. Bombay. Head, palpi, and antennae cinereous. Fore wings fawn-coloured at the base and along the dorsal margins, slightly mottled towards the apex with the darker shading; a large diffuse fuscous costal blotch stretches from the basal third of the wing nearly to the apex, and contains a few raised fuscous scales, especially towards its inner margin, it is interrupted on the costa beyond the middle by an elongate narrow cinereous space. Hind wings are purplish iridescent along their central space, where the scales are very thin, but brownish around the margins, which are more thickly covered ; fringes dull cinereous. Legs and abdomen pale cinereous. Expanse 15 millim. This species is closely allied to Chelaria conscriptella, Hiibn., |
