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SPOLIA ZEYI.ANICA. 



and most distinct. Cilia whitish -gray, intermixed with thick dark- 

 fuscous hair-scales opposite darker spots and bands. 



Hindwing cleft firstly from about f, secondly from near base, 

 thirdly from about |, fourthly from about |, fifthly from slightly 

 within \ ; segments 1-5 linear, sixth segment stout, apparently 

 forming extremity of a large glandular sac contained within and 

 along dorsal margin of wing : whitish-gray, irregularly irrorated and 

 crossed by about six ill-defined fuscous-brown transverse bands, 

 of which a terminal and subterminal are the darkest and most 

 distinct ; ground-colour of whole of sixth segment, to base of wing, 

 conspicuously darker. Cilia whitish-gray irregularly intermixed 

 with dark-fuscous hair-scales, which are well developed opposite 

 darker markings on segments. 



Figure 6. 



Orneodes microscopica. 



Type, (No. 7,684) in Coll. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, North-Central Province, Anuradhapura. 



November, 1908 (G. B. de Mowbray). 



Observation. — The unique type-specimen is unfortunately in poor 

 condition, and I should have hesitated to describe it as a novelty, 

 were its specific distinctness dependent on mere colour-markings. 

 Its minute size, however, combined with the proportionate fission 

 of the wings, and especially the extraordinarily thickened sixth 

 segment of the hindwing, sufficiently characterize O. microscopica as 

 distinct from every other species hitherto described in this family. 

 It is still smaller than 0. pygmaza, which has been described as 

 " much the smallest species of the genus." 0. nannodactyla, Rebel, 

 also expanding only 7 mm. and described from Sokotra, is apparently 

 very near (>. pygmcea, Meyr., hut has the third palpal joint very 

 short and almost hidden in the scaling of the second joint. 



