108 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
moderately long hairs. Eyes brown-yellow, finely and rather 
shortly pubescent. Maxillary palp pale, end joint a little darker. 
Thorax pale brownish yellow or darker, mesonotum with golden 
scaling. Legs very pale brownish yellow, apex of the femora, two 
rings on the tibiz (one near the base, the other broader before the 
end) and the tarsi gray-brown. The length of the middle tibia is 
0:49 mm. ; of the hind tibia 0°9 mm. (fig. 122). The lengths of 
the tarsal joints in the middle foot are 0°19, 0°04, 0°05 mm. ; 
in the hind foot 0°3,0°05,0°06 mm. The ratio of the hind tarsal 
joints as 6: 1:14. First hind tarsal joint with about 13 cteni- 
diobothria. Claws (fig. 81) slender, with acute thin tooth before 
the apex and with long hair-like empodial appendix which possesses 
a broad lamelliform base ; between this and the tooth some minute 
obscure knob-like denticles. 
Wings very narrow and acuminate ; membrane hyaline ; pteros- 
tigma (fig. 106) rather broad. Radial fork very short ; m, and m, 
very short ; m, ending below the apex. Scaling very pale brownish 
yellow to gray, some relatively broad and irregular golden bands 
and markings (fig. 22). Marginal hair very long, pale brownish 
yellow and golden mixed. Hind wing very narrow ; veins very 
pale ; marginal hair very long, standing off, that of the anterior 
margin pale brownish, that of the hinder margin yellowish. Mem- 
brane intensely iridescent red to violet, only here and there to green. 
Scales asymmetrical elongate knife-shaped (like those of &. 
sericea, n. sp.; fig. 107), at the end strongly acuminate, single ones 
very narrowly symmetrical. 
Length of fore wing 2 mm. ; wing expanse 43 mm. 
Ceylon. Peradeniya. January, 1905; inside a folded leaf on a 
tree, one specimen ; on a tree trunk, one specimen ; collected by 
Mr. E. E. Green. 
Echmepteryx sericea, n. sp. (Figs. 23, 80, 104, 105, 107). 
Head brown-yellow. Forehead and vertex with yellow-brown, 
moderately long, shaggy hair. Antenne thin, nearly equal to 
length of fore wing, brownish ; in an incomplete antenna I counted 
31 joints ; antennary joints of the flagellum short, with some fairly 
long hairs. Eyes black-brown, with rather long and stout pubes- 
cence. Maxillary palp pale. 
Thorax brown ; mesonotum covered with glistening gray-brown 
scales. Legs clear brownish yellow, with strong yellowish silken 
lustre. The length of the anterior tibia is 0°39 mm. ; of the middle 
tibia 0°49 mm.; of the hind’ tibia 0°84 mm. The lengths of the 
