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:i wliite costal spot on posterior margin of band. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia 

 rather dark fuscous. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole) ; one specimen. Amongst the orange 

 banded species with lower metallic spot wholly anterior to upper it is charac- 

 terised by the arrangement of the white basal streaks, the white costal edge 

 before band, and the almost entire white apical line. 



Cosmopterijx paltopliunes, n. sp. 



^. 11 mm. Head dark bronzy-fuscous, crown with three fine white lines, 

 face pale bronzy. Palpi white lined with black. Antennae blackish, towards 

 base lined with white, four apical joints white, then five blackish, one white 

 one blackish, one white. Thorax dark fuscous, with three fine silvery- white lines. 

 (Abdomen broken.) Vosterior tibiaj blackish, with white median and apical 

 rings, and a silvery-metallic ring between these, Forewings narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, apex slenderly long-produced, caudate ; blackish-fuscous ; dorsal edge 

 silvery- white towards base ; a silvery subcostal somewhat oblique line from 

 base to beyond \ ; a silvery median line from near base to beyond 5 ; a silvery 

 subdorsal line extending rather beyond median but not nearly reaching base ; 

 a broad orange postmedian transverse band, anteriorly edged by a slightly 

 oblique pale golden-metallic fascia followed by a few black scales and above 

 middle by a large black dot, and posteriorly by two pale golden- metallic 

 spots edged with black anteriorly, lower larger and somewhat anterior, between 

 these a rather long and broad orange projection extends to termeu, and is 

 continued as a white streak along termen to apex : cilia rather dark fuscous, on 

 costa with a whitish spot on posterior edge of band. Hindwings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia rather dark fuscous. 



Khasis, in August ; one specimen. Differs from the similar gi'oup by the 

 long median line, which however does not reach base. 



Cosmopteryx rnimetis, Meyr. 



(Cosmopterijx mimetis, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1897, 339.) 



^ $. 8-10 mm. Antennfe with one or two apical joints blackish, then two 

 white, four or five blackish, one white, one blackish, one white. Abdomen dark 

 bronzy-fuscous, sometimes orange-tinged. Forewings dark fuscous ; a white 

 oblique subcostal line from base to }, and short white median and subdorsal 

 lines, widely remote from base and band ; costal edge shortly white before 

 band ; a broad postmedian orange band narrowed downwards, margined by pale 

 golden-metallic fasciae, first followed by a black dot above middle, second edged 

 anteriorly with some blackish scales and interrupted above middle by an orange 

 projection, whence proceeds a more or less slightly interrupted white line to 

 apex, sometimes partially marked with yellow. Hindwings dark fuscous. 



Maskeliya and Puttalam, Ceylon, in October, and from January to April 

 (Pole, Green); Nilgiris ( Andre wes); also from Kuching, Borneo (Hewitt); 

 deicribed from Eastern Australia, and I have specimens from New Guirea. 

 I have briefly redescribed this species for convenience of comparison ; it is at 

 once known from its nearest allies by the dark apical joint of antennae. A 



