THE PLUME-MOTHS OF CEYLON. 165 



Orneodes niphostrota, Meyr. 



(Plate H, figure 10.) 

 Orneodes niphostrota, Meyrick, T. E. S., 1907, 507. 



" Male and female. 21-22 mm. Head and thorax white tinged 

 or sprinkled with pale ochreous. Palpi moderate, ascending, loosely 

 scaled, terminal joint § of second ; gray , terminal joint white towards 

 apex. Antennae pale whitish ochreous. Abdomen whitish, with 

 subbasal and subapical bands and lateral stripes of fuscous irroration. 

 Legs whitish, anterior femora and tibiae suffused with dark fuscous 

 externally. Forewings white ; basal half tinged with ochreous and 

 partially, sprinkled with dark fuscous, especially on base of costa 

 and towards base of lowest cleft ; segments crossed by four fuscous 

 fascia? sprinkled with blackish, and an additional blotch on first two 

 segments between third and fourth fasciae, the blotch and upper 

 half of second fascia darker than the rest, first three fasciae moderate, 

 angulated on fourth segment, first obsolete towards costa, third 

 narrow on fourth and fifth segments, fourth narrow throughout, 

 subapical, all widely separated on sixth segment : cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, slightly tinged with fuscous on fasciae. Hind wings white ; 

 basal third irrorated with dark fuscous, except at base ; segments 

 crossed by four rather narrowcurved or angulated fuscous fasciae 

 sprinkled with blackish : cilia as in forewings." 



This is another species which is so far known only from the 

 Maskeliya district, where the type- specimens were taken in October 

 and January. My two examples, for which I am indebted to 

 Messrs. Pole and De Mowbray, were both collected at light in 

 September. 



Orneodes microscopica , n. s. 



Male. Expanse 7 mm. Labial palpi moderately long, porrect, 

 third joint about half length of second ; pale fuscous-gray, banded 

 with dark fuscous at apices of joints. Antenna^ fuscous, roughened 

 with scales above. Head fuscous, a white spot on vertex between 

 the prominent black eyes. Thorax fuscous, grayish anteriorly and 

 laterally. Abdomen fuscous, paler on first two segments. Legs 

 pale grayish ; spurs on posterior tibia long and strong, the inner 

 proximal spur much the longest. 



Forewing cleft firstly from slightly beyond {. secondly from about 

 1, thirdly from slightly beyond J, fourthly from rather beyond -}. 

 fifthly from slightly within \\ hist segment narrow, segments 2-6 

 linear: pale gray: first segment with si.\ fuscous-brown costal 

 spots, fourth at J, very broad and bar-like, nearly reaching fifth 

 (at £), which is also broad but narrower than the fourth; other 

 segments apparentlj crossed by several narrow transverse fuscous- 

 brown hands only distinct towards fcermen ; all segments with a 

 minute blackish-fuscous terminal dot, that in first segment largest 



