80 EXOTIC MICUOI.EPIDOPTERA. 



PATANOTIS, n. g. -— 



Head smooth-scaled, with broad prominent fillet between 

 antennae, face retreating, crown flat; ocelli absent; tongue 

 developed. Antennie 1, in d" simple, basal joint dilated to form a 

 large eyecap. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, with appressed 

 scales, slightly roughened anteriorly, terminal joint longer than 

 second, acute. Maxillary palpi very shorb, distinct, porrected or 

 drooping, filiform, pointed. Anterior tibii,B and tarsi very' short, 

 thickened with appressed scales; posterior tibia? witli long pro- 

 jecting bristly scales above, tarsi thickened with somewhat rough 

 scales beneath, bristly above towards apex of basal joint, and witli 

 whorls of bristles at apex of joints, Forewings with 1 b very 

 shortly furcate, bent at 5, 2 and 3 remote, 3-6 gradually less 

 remote, 7 and 8 closely ai^proximated at base, 7 to costa, 1 1 from 

 beyond middle. Hindwings j|, linear-lanceolate, cilia 6 ; 2-4 re- 

 mote, parallel, 5-7 closely ai)proximatcd towards base, 8 short, 

 costal shoulder at \ with a strong blunt horny spine. 



Type P. harmosta Meyr. Allied to Calkotis. 



Patanotis metallidias, n. sp. 



^ §, 10-11 mm. Head and antennae white. Palpi white, 

 terminal joint with a light grey lateral line. Thorax white, apex 

 of patagia and posterior extremity suffused Avith dark grey. 

 Abdomen dark grey, beneath white with lateral dark grey bars. 

 Legs white, tarsi obliquely barred with grey. Forewings very 

 narrow^, costa straight, dorsum I'ounded-prominent at base, thence 

 narrowed to pointed apex ; ochreous-grey ; an irregular white 

 costal streak from base to |, interrupted by a flattened-triangular 

 black spot on middle of costa, and a suffused dark fuscous spot 

 nearer to this than to base; a slender white streak along fold, 

 thrice narrowly interrupted with dark fuscous, with a short branclv. 

 to dorsum at ^ of wing ; a triangular darker grey patch on tornus, 

 indistinctly edged with whitish ; some black scales on veins 

 posteriorly, and a curved longitudinal series of three black dots 

 towards apex, sometimes white-edged ; a black apical dot speckled 

 with silvery-metallic, ])receded by a spot of white suffusion : cilia 

 grey. Hindwings dark fuscous, tip white, with a black apical 

 speck ; cilia rather dark grey, round apical dot white at base. 



Ceylon, Trincomali, l*eradeniya, from April to June {Fletcher, 

 Green) ; four specimens, 



Patanotis harmosta, n. sp. 



c? 5 , 11-12 mm. Head and antennte white. Palpi white, on 

 upper half of terminal joint with a dark grey lateral line. 

 Thorax white, sometimes with a few dark fuscous specks 

 posteriorly. Abdomen fuscous, beneath white, with fuscous lateral 

 bars. Posterior legs white, tibiae with oblique dai-k fuscous bar 

 before apex, tarsi obscurely barred with dark grey suffusion, Fore-^ 



