14 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDA 
darker, with slight black scale-teeth at } and ? and wisps of blackish hairs at 
5/6 and anal angle, this last followed by a white wisp. 
Hindwing cleft from about 2/5 and 1/6: first segment narrow, parallel- 
sided, rather blunt at apex; second segment narrower than first, gradually 
narrowing to apéx? third segment almost linear, narrower than second, nar- 
rowing to apie: tawny-brown, thickly irrorated with black. Cilia dark tawny — 
brown, paler within cle!ts; posterior margin of second segment with an ill-defined 
whitish wisp beyond 4, third segment with a strong triangular black scale-tooth 
on dorsum at 2/3, between this and base dorsal area with a few scattered black 
and white scales, beyond this dorsal cilia faintly whitish basally. 
Dehra Dun, October t9t6 (Ollenbach). Bred from larve on lettuce. 
Three specimens, of which two are in poor condition. 
This species is superficially much like a large, dark, strong’y-marked 
Sphenarches caffer, from,which it may easily be separated by the entire absence 
of black scales on the (ee margin of the third segment of the hindwing. 
It is possible that this species may be a Sphenarches, but 1 have been unable to 
determine satisfactorily the origin of vein 10 of the forewing. 
OXYPTILUS EPIDECTES, MEYR. 
Oxyptilus epidectes, Meyr., T. KE. 8. 1907, 476-477 (1908)(') ; Fletcher, Spolia 
Zeylan, VI, 26, t.-A f. 5 (1909) -(7). e 
Originally described from Burma (Moy), Nilgiris, Coorg, Cevlon (Mas- 
keliya) and Mauritius, this species is also known from Kandy and Madulsima 
and we have specimens from Madulsima and Haldummulla in Ceylon and from 
Pollibetta in South Coorg. 
The moths have been bred from Biophytum sensitivum, which is evidently 
the foodplant(?). : 
OXYPTILUS CHORDITES, MEYR. 
Oxyptilus chordites, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 106 (1918)(?). 
Described from Colombo and Karwar('). 
Larva on Calycopteris floribunda('). 
OXYPTILUS PELECYNTES, MEYR. 
Oxyptilus pelecyntes, Meyr., T. EK. 8. 1907, 477 (1908)('). 
This species was described from the Khasi Hills('), where it is common, 
the larva feeding on Scutellaria discolor. We have it from Shillong and from 
Haldummula (Ceylon). 
