528 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



a few scattered darker brown scales below middle of the cell, and a cluster at, and 

 above base of the cleft; some brown costal jioints near tlie apex of upper plume and 

 a point on its lower edge also near the apex; lower plume with an apical point. 

 Plumes of hindwing with minute brown scattered scales. Fore femora and tibia 

 brown ; basil joint of antenna^ tipt with brown on its inner side. 



Expanse tV inch. 



Ceylon. 



Allied to L. Lienigianus. 



Genus OXYPTILUS. 



O.ri/ptilus, Zeller, Isis, 1841, p. TGo. 



OXYPTILUS ANIS0DACTYLU3. 



0.r//ptlhis anisodnctijliis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 934 (1864). 



" Male and female. Dull pale ochraceous. Forewings with two indistinct 

 darker bands, a whitish subcostal dot at one-third of the length, and a larger and 

 more distinct whitish costal dot at two-thirds the length ; a whitish oblique 

 submargiual line. Hind plume of the hindwings fringed with black for one-fourth 

 of the length near the tip. Hind tibite blackish about the base of the spurs. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus PTEROPHORUS. 



Pteronhorus, Geoffroy, Hist. lus. p. 90 (1762) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 671 (177.5) ; Eetzius, De Geer's, 

 Ins. pp. 8 and 35 (1783) ; Foiircroy, Lep. Tavis, ii. p. 256(178.5) ; Latreille, Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 257 

 (180.5) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. f'ol. 161 (1827) ; Stephens, 111. Hanst. iv. p. 370 (1835) ; Zeller, Isis, 

 1841, p. 764. 



PTEROPHORUS LEUCADACTYLUS (Plate 209, Fig. 15). 

 AciptiJus Icucadactijhis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 949 (1864). 

 Silvery-white. Forewings with two small dark-brown dots near the costal 

 margin of the first lobe ; the first dot at about one-third from the apex, the second 

 half-way between this and the apex itself ; immediately beyond the latter is a third 

 minute dot at the base of the fringes in the hinder margin of the lobe ; a correspond- 

 ing dot lying on the hinder margin of the second lobe. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



Distinguishable from 1'. pcntadactulns by the forewings being narrower at the 

 base. 



PTEROPHORUS OXYDACIYLUS (Plate 209, Fio. 16). 

 Pternphortis o.ri/'lKclf/his, Walkei', Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 944 (1864). 



" ]\Iale and female. Pale ochraceous-fawn colour. Forewings narrow, very 



