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on most of the median lobe with a few narrow-curved pale golden ones 

 on its apical edge, with bright brown border bristles. Abdomen deep, 

 blackish-brown with basal white bands and with short pale golden 

 border-bristles. 



Legs deep brown, the femora and tibise and metatarsi with scattered 

 pale scales, the knees white, metatarsi and first three tarsi of the fore 

 and mid legs with basal pale yellow to almost white bands, last tarsal 

 segment all deep brown ; in the hind legs all the segments have basal 

 white bands ; ungues of the fore and mid legs equal and uniserrated, 

 of the hind equal and simple. Wings short with the fork-cells short, 

 the scales mottled brown and creamy grey ; scales on the basal areas 

 of the veins and the median paired ones cone-shaped and broad, the 

 lateral ones on the apical halves linear and very narrow, except on the 

 branches of the first fork-cell where they are broader ; on the stems 

 of the fork-cells they are much broader and cone-shaped ; some of 

 the scales are asymmetrical ; first sub-marginal cell longer and slightly 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the 

 apex of the wing, its stem about the same length as the cell ; stem 

 of the second posterior slightly longer than the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein not quite its own length distant from the mid cross- vein. 



Length 3'8 to 4 mm. 



£ Antennae banded brown and grey, plume hairs bright flaxen. 

 Proboscis not mottled as in the 9 . Palpi long ; the two apical seg- 

 ments and the apex of the penultimate slightly swollen ; the apical 

 segment about the same length but narrower than the penultimate, 

 the remainder of the palps looking like one long segment, the jointing 

 being invisible owing to the scales ; color deep brown ; creamy white 

 scales form an apparent band at the base of the two apical segments 

 and there is another very narrow pale band half way down the remain- 

 der of the palps ; the two apical segments have blackish plume-hairs 

 and also both sides of the apex of the anti-penultimate segment. Legs 

 as in the 9 ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrated ; the 

 hind ones simple (? equal). Wings much as in 9 . 



Length 4*3 mm. 



Habitat : Galgamuwa, Ceylon. 



Time of capture : August (1902). 



Observations. — Described from two perfect 9 ' s and one $ . The 

 species is very marked, but unless examined microscopically might 



