Descriptions ‘of Pterophoride and Orneodide. 473 
Trichoptilus congrualis, Walk. 
(Pterophorus congrualis, Walk. 948; P. oxydactylus, ib. 
944: Trichoptilus centetes, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1886, 16 ; ? Z. compsochares, ib. 16; T. ralumensis, Pag., 
“ Zoologica,” xxix, 239; 7. ochrodactylus, Fish, Can. Ent. 
xiii, 142.) 
This very wide-ranging species occurs freely in South 
and East Africa, from India and Ceylon to New Guinea 
and N.E. Australia, and in the West Indies and Southern 
States of North America (I have several specimens from 
Florida). 
DEUTEROCOPUS, Z. 
Deuterocopus rubrodactylus, Pag. 
I have this from South Africa, Ceylon, India, New 
Guinea and the surrounding islands. 
Deuterocopus planeta, n. sp. 
¢. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax deep ferruginous, sprinkled 
with yellow-whitish. Palpi ferruginous, with several whitish rings. 
Antenne whitish, with a biserrate fuscous line. Abdomen whitish- 
yellow, above with three suffused stripes and several transverse bands 
ferruginous, third segment with a semicircular silvery-white spot 
on posterior margin, anal valves and tuft very long and slender. Legs 
ferruginous ringed with whitish, posterior pair with whorls of ex- 
panded scales at origin of spurs and apex of tarsal joints. Fore-wings 
cleft firstly from 2, secondly from 3, first segment narrow, second and 
third linear; deep ferruginous, sprinkled with whitish-yellowish ; 
undefined slender irregular white bars on first segment before 4 and 
beyond %, before base of second cleft, and on middle of second 
segment : cilia pale ferruginous, on costa mostly dark fuscous, 
with dark fuscous bars at apex of segments, and dark grey patches or 
bars on lower margin of first segment towards apex, upper margins 
of second and third segments towards apex, and lower margins of 
second and third segments about middle. Hind-wings cleft firstly 
from 4, secondly from near base, segments linear ; ferruginous, first 
two segments suffused with dark fuscous posteriorly ; cilia light 
ferruginous, third segment with a dot of one or two black scales on 
dorsum before its middle, and a moderate apical scale-tooth of black 
and ferruginous scales extending above and beneath. 
Coorc (Kuti) (Newcome), ASSAM (Khasi Hills); in 
