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M^ Journ., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XlX., No. 2. [August 15, 1909. 



lines. Abdomen bronzy -fuscous, doisally tinged with orange, apex whitish. 

 Posterior tibiae blackish, with white median and apical and silvery subapical 

 rings. ForewingR narrowly lanceolate, apex narrowly long-produced ; dark 

 fuscous ; dorsal edge white towards base ; a transverse series of three short 

 white dashes before }, subcoscal rather oblique, subdorsal shortest ; costal edge 

 white for a short space before band ; a broad orange transverse postmedian band 

 margined anteriorly by a vertical violet-goldon-metallic fascia, and posteriorly 

 by two violet-golden-metallic vertical-transverse spots, lower spot wholly ante- 

 rior to upper ; between these a short fine orange line runs to termen, and from 

 olo»e beyond this a fine silvery-white line to apex : cilia dark fuscous, with 

 a white costal spot on posterior margin of band. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia 

 rather dark fuscous. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole) ; one specimen. Amongst the orange 

 banded species with lower metallic spot wholly anterior to upper it is charac- 

 terised by the arrangement of the white basal streaks, the white costal edge 

 before band, and the almost entire white apical line. 



Cosmopteryx paltophaiies , n. sp. 



$. 11 mm. Head dark bronzy-fuscous, crown with three fine white lines, 

 face pale bronzy. Palpi white lined with black. Antennje blackish, towards 

 base lined with white, four apical joints white, then five blackish, one white 

 one blackish, one white. Thorax dark fuscous, with three fine silvery- white lines, 

 (Abdomen broken.) Posterior tibiae blackish, with white median and apical 

 rings, and a silvery-metallic ring between these. Forewings narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, apex slenderly long-produced, caudate ; blackish-fuscous ; dorsal edge 

 silvery-white towards base ; a silvery subcostal somewhat oblique line from 

 base to beyond \ ; a silvery median line from near base to beyond 3 ; a silvery 

 subdorsal line extending rather beyond median but not nearly reaching base ; 

 a broad orange postmedian transverse band, anteriorly edged by a slightly 

 oblique pale golden-metallic fascia followed by a few black scales and above 

 middle by a large black dot, and posteriorly by two pale golden-metallic 

 spots edged with black anteriorly, lower larger and somewhat anterior, between 

 these a rather long and broad orange projection extends to termen, and is 

 continued as a white streak along termen to apex : cilia rather dark fuscous, on 

 costa with a whitish spot on posterior edge of band. Hindwings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia rather dark fuscous. 



Khasis, in August ; one specimen. DifEers from the similar group by the 

 long median line, which however does not reach base. 



Cosmopteryx mimetis, Meyr. 



(JJotmopteryx mimetis, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1897, 339.) 



^9. 8-10 mm. Antennae with one or two apical joints blackish, then two 

 white, four or five blackish, one white, one blackish, one white. Abdomen dark 

 bronzy-fuacous, sometimes orange-tinged. Forewings dark fuscous ; a white 

 obliciue subcostal line from base to \, and short white median and subdorsal 

 lines, widely remote from base and band ; costal c'dg« shortly white before 



