SCALY WINGED COPEOGNATHA. 67 
Length of fore wing about 3°6 mm. 
Japan, Okayama, Herbst, 1904 ; twelve nymphs and five females, 
Collected by Hans Sauter. 
The nymphs have 2-jointed tarsi. They are pale gray white, 
sprinkled above with gray brown. Antennz brown, eyes gray black. 
Colour of the legs as in the imago. Wing sheaths long and narrow, 
almost equal in length to the abdomen, the hind wings rather 
shorter. The colour of the latter is pale yellowish gray white, that 
of the fore wing with a brown cross band respectively at the end of 
the first and second third. 
Seopsis, n.g. 
Type :—S. vasantasena,n. sp. 
First radial branch in hind wing absent. Maxillary palp without 
spurs. Claws with one tooth before the apex. 
Three small species in Ceylon. 
Scales of fore wing mostly abruptly truncate at the end, only feebly 
emarginate in 8. vasantasena (fig. 31); marginal scales and scales of 
hind wing more or less deeply or flatly incised. 
TABLE OF SPECIES OF THE GENUS SEOPSIS. 
1. Head in front with metallic green glitter. 
Fore wing with silvery scaling and black-brown 
marking te . metallops, n. sp. 
Head without metallic lustre is sae 
2. Fore wing dark brown with golden marking superba (Hag 
1865). 
Fore wing silvery with irregular golden - 
longitudinal band in the middle; hinder border 
with irregular dark brown marking; anterior 
border with three brown cross bands (of which the 
middle one is clear gray brown) which scarcely 
reach the middle of the wing; before and behind 
these a dark brown marginal spot vasantasena,, 
n. sp. 
Seopsis vasantasena, n. sp. (Figs. 5, 30, 31, 35, 58, 103). 
Head clear brownish yellow, over the vertex four rather narrow 
reddish brown longitudinal streaks, the two submedian streaks 
very close to the distinct suture of the vertex ; they often coalesce 
especially in the central portion ; the two lateral streaks are ‘near 
to the eye-borders, often touching them. These four brown 
