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XXVIL Notes and Descriptions of Pterophoride and 
Orneodide. By E. Meyrick, B.A., E.RB.S., F.Z.S. 
[Read December 4th, 1907.] 
THE following notes may be regarded as materials 
towards the study of the geographical distribution of these 
curious families, which is likely to prove eventually of 
much interest. 
PTEROPHORID &. 
DIACROTRICHA, Z. 
Having become acquainted with D. fasciola, the species 
to which Zeller attached this generic name, I find it agrees 
with my genus Cosmoclostis in essential characters, and 
therefore propose to adopt Zeller’s name for that genus. 
Including Zeller’s, four species have been described, 
ranging from Ceylon to Queensland, and I now add a fifth. 
Diacrotricha fasciola, Z. 
Described from Java; I have it also from Ceylon, India, 
and the KeilIslands. Bred by Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy from 
pupe found on leaf of Averrhoa bilimbi (2), a tree of 
cultivation, so that it may be artificially spread. 
Diacrotricha auxtlewea, n. sp. 
¢ G@. 14-18mm. Head and thorax white partially suffused with 
whitish-yellow. Palpi and antenne ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 
whitish-yellow, irregularly marked with ferruginous, with three 
silvery-white transverse bands, beneath wholly white. Legs white, 
indistinctly banded with ferruginous-ochreous, anterior and middle 
tibia lined with dark fuscous. Fore-wings cleft from 3, segments 
linear ; snow-white ; costa slenderly ferruginous-brown from base to 
cleft, and anterior half of first segment more or less entirely suffused 
with ferruginous-brown; dorsum also partially ferruginous ; first 
segment with a dark fuscous dot at base of its lower margin, two 
dark fuscous marks on costa before and at middle, suffusedly con- 
nected beneath, a bar at 3, and a dot at apex ; second segment with a 
ferruginous bar mixed with dark fuscous almost at base, a narrow 
dark fuscous bar beyond middle, and a dot at apex : cilia ochreous, 
TRANS, ENT. SOC, LOND, 1907.—PART IV. (FEB. ’08) 
