Ill 

 11 



158 STOMA ZEV1.ANM \. 



Ground-colour of f.w. dark-brown or blackish 7 

 Ground-colour of f.w. not dark-brown or 



blackish . . . . . . 8 



Dorsal surface of 3rd abdominal segment wholly 



ochreous-white . . . . mesolychna 



Dorsal surface of 3rd abdominal segment not 



wholly ochreous-white . . . . montigena 



Abdomen brownish-ochreous with two large 



white dorsal spots . . . . ischalea 



Abdomen not so marked . . . . 9 



Third palpal joint short, clothed with rough 



scales, expanded at aj)ex .. .. pinalea 



Third palpal joint long, slender, without rough 



scales, apex not expanded . . . . 10 



Ground-colour of wings pale ochreous-buff . . toxopkila 

 ; Ground-colour of wing white . . . . 11 



First segment of f.w. fuscous on basal half . . sycopfianta 

 | First segment of f.w. not fuscous on basal half postfasciata 

 * See text figure 5. 



Figure ■'>■ 



OeConcL anXlh.rdL )»ul}><d j'omfs 

 of 1. 0. ^Lj Co "brum to. ; 

 2. . 0. ~b i n a I e a . 



Orneodes pygm^ea, Meyr. 



(Plate G, figure 1.) 



Alucita pygmcea, Meyriek, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, 

 1889, pp. 1112-1113. 



As the original brief description of this species, made from 

 Queensland examples, is not very accessible to workers in Ceylon, 

 1 have I bought it best to draw up the following redescription from 

 Sinhalese specimens : — 



Male and female. Expanse 8-9 mm. Labial palpi white ; second 

 joint expanded with scales apically, and suffused with fuscous 

 beneath apex ; third joint cylindrical, rather rough-scaled, about half 

 length of second. Maxillary palpi minute, acuminate. Antenna; 

 whitish, faintly dotted beneath with pale ochreous-brown, finely 

 ciliated. Head white, sprinkled with dark fuscous on vertex. 



