1C,M STOMA ZEYLANICA. 



with white. Head whitish, on hack of crown fuscous, on vertex 

 rough-scaled. Thorax oehreous-brown Lrrorated with white. Ab- 

 domen ochreous-brown finely irrorated with blackish, posterior 

 ma r^ins of segments narrowly edged with white. Legs whitish : 

 fore-tibia dilated beneath with a small scale-tuft, fore-tibia and 

 fore-tarsus suffused above with fuscous, hind-tarsus with bases of 

 joints banded with very pale fuscous. 



Forewing clefl firstly from about £, secondly from near base, 

 thirdly from about j. fourthly from within \, fifthly from near base, 

 first segment narrow, others perlinear, first segment at base twice 

 breadth of second : pale ochreous-brown finely striated transversely 

 with blackish : first segment with a white costal dot at about I and 

 outwardly-oblique transverse white bars at { , |, |, and £ ; segments 

 2-0 cut transversely by six narrow white bars , preceded and followed 

 by tine black lines ; on the third segment the third and fourth white 

 bars are displaced outwards relatively to the positions of those on 

 segments 2 and 4. Cilia very pale oehreous-brown, white opposite 

 white bars. 



Hindwing cleft into six perlinear segments, firstly from about £. 

 secondly from base, thirdly from about \, fourthly and fifthly from 

 near base : pale ochreous-brown finely striated transversely with 

 blackish, crossed by about six narrow white bars, preceded and 

 followed by blackish. Cilia very pale ochreous-brown, white 

 opposite white bars. 



* Described from a single specimen taken by myself at Ohiya 

 (6,000 feet), on the borders of Uva and the Central Province, 

 Ceylon, on August 25, 1906. 



Observation. — This is possibly a montane form of 0. pygmcea, Meyr. , 

 from which species it appears to me, however, to be separated by the 

 following characters: (i.) Its larger size ; (ii.) the distinctly annulated 

 antenna?, only very faintly marked in pygmcea ; (iii.) the darker 

 colour of the abdomen, and especially the absence on segment 2 of 

 the white dorsal patch and lateral blackish blotches so conspicuous 

 in pygmcea ; (iv.) the greater breadth of the first segment of the 

 fore wing in comparison with the second segment ; (v.) the much 

 narrower white bars on the first segment of forewing. A larger 

 series will doubtless settle in the future the question of the specific 

 distinctness of pygmcea and the present form. 



Orneodes ischalea, Meyr. 



(Plate G, figure 3.) 

 Orneodes ischalea, Meyrick, B. J., XVI., 583. 



The original description reads :— " Male 13 mm. Head white, 

 back of crown mixed with fuscoi s. Palpi white, externally fuscous- 

 tinged. Antenna? whitish. Thorax whitish, mixed with fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish, irrorated with fuscous, with a clear white trape- 

 zoidal dorsal patch before middle, and a spot beyond middle. Legs 



