SCALY WINGED COPEROGNATHA. 83 
Lepium luridum, n. sp. (Figs. 16, 64, 65, 73.) 
Head, thorax, and legs dirty yellow-brown to brownish yellow. 
The similarly coloured hairs on forehead and vertex shaggy. Eyes 
rather convex, spherical, brown-black ; pubescence very short, fine 
andcompact. Antenne thin, brownish yellow, about three-fourths the 
length of the fore wing ; pubescence fairly compact and long ; antennz 
incomplete, 24 joints present ; the lengths of the individual joints in 
millims. are the following: the two basal joints, 0°05 and 0:07 ; 
the remaining joints, 0:09, 0:09, 0-1, 0:1, 0°07, 0:08, 0:07, 0:06, 
0:07, 0°08, 0:07, 0:06, 0:07, 0:05, 0:06,0:06, 0:06, 0:07, 0:08, 0-06. 
0:06, 0:06. Maxillary palp clear brownish yellow. 
Mesonotum with gray brown scales. The length of the anterior 
tibia is 0°48 mm. of the middle tibia 0°53 mm., of the posterior 
tibia0’'9mm. The lengths of the tarsal joints in millims. are: in the 
fore foot, 0°23, 0:05, 0:07 ; in the mid foot, 0°3,0°05, 0°07; inthe hind , 
foot, 0°44,0°06,0°08. The ratioof the hind tarsal joints as 54: }: 1. 
First hind tarsal joint with about 19 ctenidiobothria. Claws (fig. 
73) with stout tooth close before the apex; empodial appendix 
setiform. 
Wing membrane hyaline, that of the fore wing very faintly 
brownish. Both wings rather strongly acuminate. Pterostigma 
relatively narrow. Inthe fore wing m , discharges over the wing apex. 
The scales of the fore wing dirty gray-brown to blackish brown 
with yellowish brown tints. The cover-scales darker, the ground- 
scales clearer. Shortly before the apex, both at the anterior 
and at the posterior margin, a somewhat pale very indistinct or 
hardly perceptible flat spot. Marginal hairs very long, standing off, 
pale brown. Hind wing with very long and pale marginal hairs ; 
veins pale brown. Only the apical third pubescent. Radial cell 
very narrow. Membrane deep blue-green to violet and reddish 
iridescent. 
Ground scales (fig. 65 gs) fusiform, apex strongly acuminate ; cover 
scales (ds) slender, marginal scales (Ars) very slender. 
Length of fore wing 2:2 mm., wing expanse 5 mm. 
Ceylon, Peradeniya. Under dry leaves on the ground, March, 
1905, one specimen; under dead bark of tree, May, 1905, one 
specimen ; collected by Mr. E. E. Green. 
Perientomum, Hagen., 1865. 
Hagen, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. II., 1865, p. 151; Verh. Zool. Bot. 
Ges. Wien., 1866, p. 210. 
Enderlein, Ann, Mus. Nat. Hung. I., 1903, pp. 320-321. 
