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Family — PTEROPHORID/E. 



Sub-family.— AGDISTINM. 

 AGDISTIS, Hb. 



/Synopsis of the Species. 



Expanse 24 mm. F.w. with an oblique apical white 

 streak . . . . . . sinhala 



Expanse 15-16 mm. No apical white streak . . nanodes 



Agdistis nanodes, Meyr. 

 B. J., XVII.. 130. 



Locality. — Puttalam. The four specimens, on which the species 

 is founded, were taken between August and November. 



This species is unknown to me. except from the description 

 quoted above. 



Agdistis sinhala, n.s. 



3 . Expanse 24 mm. Antennae ciliated (1), gray. Palpi 

 densely scaled, gray, faintly irrorated with fuscous; projecting 

 nearly length of head beyond it. Fore legs gray irrorated above 

 with fuscous and with a conspicuous dilation at end of tibia. (Second 

 pair of legs wanting.) Hind legs very long light, gray, spurs 

 minute, first pair at about two-thirds, second pair apical. Head 

 gray, with a faint fuscous median line. Thorax pale fuscous, with 

 a sub-dorsal grayish longitudinal line. Abdomen very long and 

 slender, pale gray, darkening apically ; a pale fuscous dorsal line on 

 first three abdominal segments : anal tuft pale gray. Fore wing 

 elongate, narrow, widening exteriorly, with a slightly falcate apex 

 and distinct tornal angle : grayish fuscous : a dark fuscous bar 

 along dorsum from base to about .V ; outer third of wing (except 

 costa) irrorated with dark fuscous and traversed by an oblique 

 white streak mosl conspicuous in apex. Cilia grayish-fuscous. 

 Hind wing triangular, apex acute, outer margin undulate with two 

 very shallow excavations in normal positions of clefts; fuscous. 

 Cilia fuscous, rather long in vicinity of anal angle. 



Type 8 (No. 6.900) in Coll. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



Locality. — A single specimen was taken at Kandy on December 22, 

 1907, by Mr. E. Ernest (been, to whose kind assistance in working 

 at the Pterophoridse of Ceylon I am much indebted. 



Observation. — Unfortunately this specimen is in poor condition, 

 but I have carefully compared it with examples of eight Agdistid 

 species in my collection and with the descriptions of all the other 

 species described in this genus, and have no doubt of its distinctness. 



