46 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Fam. AMPHIENTOMIDA:. 
[Enderlein. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., Bd. I, 1903, p. 206. | 
Head, large, hairless, or with very short hairs ; eyes and clypeus 
very slightly projecting. Occiput very steeply declining and sharp- 
edged; the margin somewhat rounded. Eyes moderately large, 
hairless, except in the Tineomorphine, where they are compactly 
and shortly pubescent. 
The three ocelli of the Amphientomine are rather far apart, but 
always form a small triangle ; the anterior ocellus generally smaller 
(only larger in Seopsis metallops,n. sp.) ; the ocelli are sometimes 
absent (Stigmatopathus, Enderl.) ; the Tineomorphine have only two 
ocelli which lie more or less close in front of the border of the com- 
pound eyes. Maxillary palp 4-jointed, the first joint very short, 
the last long and slender. Inner lobe of the maxilla strongly 
widened at the end and very irregularly notched and flatly dentate. 
Organ of the maxillary palp, in the Amphientomine, in the form of 
a short sense-club ; in the Tineomorphine it has the form of a 
remarkably long sense-hair on the inner side of the second joint 
of the palp. Labial palp 2-jointed, but the two joints grow to a 
large roundish disc-like structure close together (as figured in the 
case of Cymatopsocus, Enderl., in Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., Bd. I, 1903. 
Plate XII., fig. 56 2). 
Flagellum of the antenna thin to very thin, rather closely beset 
with long to very long hairs. Antenna short, two-thirds to three- 
quarters the length of the fore wing. The number of the long 
antennary joints is in all cases, recent and fossil, thirteen. Hagen 
(Ent. Zeit. Stettin, 1882, p. 268) states that the antennz of Am- 
phientomun paradoxum, Hag., from amber, are 15-jointed. I have 
however been able to convince myself by examination of Hagen’s 
material that the species which occur preserved in amber have also 
only 13 antennary joints (cf. Enderlin, /.c., 1905, p. 576). In conse- 
quence of the ,extraordinary and unusual length of the very thin 
antennary joints it is very difficult to count them with certainty 
in the amber. 
Prothorax small, compressed below the mesothorax, and not 
visible from above ; mesonotum beset with scales. Femora, tibiz, 
and first tarsal joint beset with slender scales. Hind tibize with 
very short and fine spur-like thorns scattered along the entire 
length. Hinder tarsal joints with a series of ctenidiobothria (fig. 
123) on the inner side. Tarsi 3-jointed. Claws with one tooth 
before the apex (Stimulopalpus, Enderl.; Seopsis, Enderl.; Stigmato- 
pathus, Enderl.); or with two teeth (Amphientomum, Hag., 1859, 
