l06 EXOTIC AirCROLEPlDorxERA. 



black scale-projections from near base to beyond middle, and a 

 moderate rounded black s.ialc-tootli at apex, on upper margin with 

 some irregular black scales on apical fourth, 



!Hritish Guiana, Eartica, in January and February (Parish) ; 

 seven specimens. Very distinct by the abdominal yellow bunds 

 and otherwise. 



Oxyptilus cliordites, n, sp. 



c? 2 . 14:-15 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi, antenn?e, 

 and legs white lined with black. Abdomen dark fuscous liuedwith 

 white. Eorcwings cleft to before middle, first segment very narrow, 

 acutely pointed, second narrower, slightly dilated posteriorly, ter- 

 men extreinely oblique, concave ; dark brownish-fuscous ; a blackish 

 dot beneath costa near base ; small blackish spots beneath fold at 

 •i- and in disc at 1 ; a blackish mark on base of cleft, finely white- 

 edged posteriorly ; slender indistinct whitish bars on first segment 

 before its middle and at | ; cilia fuscous irregularly mixed and 

 barred with whitish-ochreous, on costa dark fuscous with whitish 

 patches on bars, on lower margin of first and upper margin of 

 second segments with patches of black scales towards ^ and | and 

 a few white scales on bars, beneath apex of each segment with 

 fine black bar, on dorsum with four black bars, first opposite base 

 of cleft, fourtii at tornus. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, 

 on lower margin of second segment with a slight blackish scale- 

 tooth in middle of segment, on upper margin of third segment with 

 several black scales on median third and a black patch edged with 

 white occupying apical third, on lower margin of third segment 

 with very minute scattered black scale-projections from base to t|, 

 a triangular black white-edged scale-tooth from f to f, and a 

 slender white-edged scale-tooth beneath apex. 



KAiSTAKA, Karwar, in July {Maxivell) ; Ceylon, Colombo, in July 

 (Fletcher) ; four specimens. Bred from larva) feeding on Ccdij- 

 coj^terls floribanda (Maxwell). Allied io pelecyntes. 



Deuterocopus torridus, n. sp. 



cT . 1 1 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous, tliorax beneatli 

 whitish-yellowish. Palpi Avhitish, second and terminal joints each 

 witli two ferruginous bands. Antennae black, lined and dotted 

 with white, ciliations g. Abdomen ferruginous, basal segment 

 with two small yellow- whitish spots, segments 3-5 with pairs of 

 small yellow-whitish marginal marks, ventral surface AvhoUy pale 

 yellow, anal tuft considerably elongate. Posterior legs ferruginous 

 infuscated on whorls, median and apical scale-whorls of tibiae rather 

 large, other bristle-whorls moderate, spurs hardly roughened. Fore- 

 wings with lower cleft over f of upper; shining coppery-ferruginous ; 

 ol)scure narrow fascite of fuscous suffusion indicated at base, ^j, and 

 middle ; first segment sometimes suffused with rather dark fuscous 



