1 02 SPOLLA ZEYLANIOA. 



white. Abdomen whit*-, second segment with small blackish 

 subdorsal spots, anal tuft of male whitish-ochreous. Legs white, 

 anterior tibiae suffused with dark gray. Forewings white ; first 

 segment with about ten pale yellowish spots partially edged with 

 dark fuscous irroration, alternate ones more strongly suffused with 

 dark fuscous ; other segments crossed by six moderately broad pale 

 yellowish fascia? edged with blackish irroration, fourth broadest, 

 represented on sixth segment by a blackish spot : cilia white, on 

 fascia 1 pale yellowish. Eindwings white ; fasciae mostly reduced to 

 single dots of blackish irroration. but postmedian fascia faintly 

 yellowish ; sixth segment with three posterior dots only."' 



This species, which is not as yet known from any locality outside 

 of Ceylon, was originally described from specimens collected at 

 Madulsima and Wellawaya in November. I have a single example 

 taken at Mankulam in November, 1908 (De Mowbray). 



Obneodes postfasciata, n. s. 

 (Plate G, figure 0.) 



Male. Expanse 15 mm. Labial palpi long, cylindrical, white, 

 slightly suffused beneath with yellowish-brown ; third joint about 

 | length of second. Antenna? whitish, minutely ciliated. Head 

 and thorax white. Legs white : fore-femur suffused above on 

 terminal half with blackish ; fore-tibia suffused with blackish, and 

 provided with a scale-tuft beneath. Abdomen white, third segment 

 suffused with blackish-fuscous. Spina of frenulum very long and 

 strong. 



Fore wing cleft from about § , near base, about §, |, and from near 

 base ; first segment narrow, others linear ; white : a faint subbasal 

 blackish-fuscous costal spot ; first segment with outer third faintly 

 suffused with pale brown, posterior margin of segment indistinctly 

 edged with blackish-fuscous at about ^ and beyond § length of 

 segment ; second segment with a longitudinal blackish-fuscous spot 

 on anterior margin at base, cut at § by a broad blackish-fuscous bar 

 and by narrow pale brown bars at | and before termen ; third 

 segment with a blackish-fuscous dot on anterior margin at | on a 

 narrow indistinct anteterminal pale-brown bar ; fourth segment cut 

 by a dark-fuscous line near base, and an indistinct pale-brown bar 

 before termen ; fifth segment with pale anteterminal bar ; sixth 

 segment with a strong patch of blackish scales (? androconia) at ^, 

 cut at | by a narrow blackish-fuscous bar and before termen by an 

 indistinct pale-brown bar. Cilia white : on posterior margin of first 

 segment mixed with blackish at about | and beyond §, on fore- 

 margin of second segment dark-fuscous at ^ and -§. 



Hindwing cleft from about J, base, I, base, and base ; segments 

 linear : white : all segments narrowly and irregularly suffused with 

 blackish-fuscous at base, crossed slightly before ?, by a broad blackish 

 bar forming a conspicuous fascia across the whole wing, beyond (his 



