SCALY WINGED COPEOGNATHA. 69 
the root of the wing to the wing apex, occurs near the middle a clear, 
gray brown, rather broad cross band which runs from the anterior 
margin obliquely backwards and ends directly truncate. In the 
anterior half of the wing the following places are dark brown :—~A 
narrow brown longitudinal band from the anterior margin of the 
wing base, in the first half lying against the anterior border, in the 
second half directed obliquely backwards and towards the wing 
apex ; close beside the gray brown cross band on the inner side of it 
a nearly equally broad parallel cross band, outside the gray brown 
band and also close beside it another very narrow parallel cross band. 
Outside the latter a dark brown marginal spot produced acutely 
backwards, outside this again a minute marginal spot over the 
apex. Hinder border with a dark brown zigzag seam, broad at the 
base, expanding at the end of the first third to an acute triangle, 
the apex of which reaches to about the middle joint between poste- 
rior and anterior margin, then becomes strongly attenuated ; it is 
interrupted in the middle and, before ending before the apex, encloses 
one or two golden spots. Hind wings hyaline, veins pale brown, 
apical border with long scales, hinder border with very long hairs : 
in the membrane scales only occur at the anterior margin of the apex 
upon a very narrow zone (fig. 5); membrane blue to intense red 
violet iridescent to golden yellow. 
The scales of the fore wing (fig. 31 a) are relatively slender, the 
sides parallel, feebly emarginate at the end; the marginal scales 
are very narrow and long, strongly bifid at the end (fig. 31 3); the 
scales of the hind wing are slenderer and attenuate gradually toward 
the base and are at the end usually more or less emarginate or smooth- 
ly truncate (fig. 31. y. 6. «.), the marginal scales (fig. 31. £.) like 
those of the fore wing, though usually less strongly bifid at the end. 
Length of fore wing 2 mm., wing expanse 44 mm. 
Ceylon. Peradeniya. January, 1905;0n the outer surface of 
walls and verandahs ; 13 specimens ; collected by Mr. E. E. Green. 
Seopsis superba (Hag., 1865). 
(Figs. 6, 32, 36, 123.) 
Amphientomum superbum, Hagen, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. II., 1865 
p. 150. 
Perientomum superbum, Hagen, Verh. d. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. , 
1866, p. 210. 
Perientomum superbum, Hag., Enderlein, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hun- 
gar., Bd. I., 1903, p. 322. ; 
Seopsis superba (Hag.) m. 
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