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SPOLTA ZKVLANTCA. 



Tris< edecia dactyloptera, Hmpsn. 



Trisccedecia dactyloptera, Hampson, T. E. S., 1905, 247-248 (fig.). 



"Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with whitish, pale 

 brown, and black scales ; antenna' and legs mixed with whitish ; 

 abdomen with diffused blackish hands. 



Forewing clothed with grayish, pale brown, and black scales ; the 

 costa with whitish spots between the [six] black tufts of scales ; the 

 cell with small black lunules followed by whitish spots at middle 

 and extremity ; traces of a diffused oblique whitish band from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; an indistinct slightly waved whitish 

 post medial line ; the plumes with white spots at base and siibterminal 

 and terminal series of white lunules. 



Figure 7. 



Ttis caeHe c l a a acty (ojite va . 



m. p. Maxillary palp. 

 Figure 8. 



Trisccedecia dactyloptera. Hmpsn. 



Hindwing with the basal half white with diffused irregular black 

 antemedial and two medial lines on it, the first of the medial lines 

 arising from a discoidal bar ; a slightly waved whitish postmedial 

 line ; the plumes with white spots at base and subterminal and 

 terminal series of white lunules. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (J. Pole), Ohiya (Gossage). Expanse 

 26 mm. Type in B. M." 



Reference to the specimens in the National Collection shows that 

 the type of this species is the Maskeliya specimen referred to above. 



My own examples are from Maskeliya (De Mowbray, Pole) and 

 Madulsima (Vaughan). The only other example which I have seen 

 is a very old one, without definite locality, which I found in the 

 Colombo Museum figuring under the name of Tinea (!) alucitana. 



