Descriptions of Pterophoride and Orneodide. 477 
margin of first segment ; a white band or costal spot on first segment 
about middle, preceded and followed on costa by some blackish 
scales ; sometimes a whitish bar at ? of first segment: cilia within 
cleft grey mixed with black and a few white scales, at base of cleft 
ochreous-whitish, beneath apex barred with white, on termen of 
second segment whitish except towards angles, on dorsum ochreous- 
whitish with a grey posterior patch, with a strong blackish scale- 
projection opposite base of cleft, and three rather smaller ones 
posteriorly, last tornal. Hind-wings cleft firstly from 4, secondly 
from near base, segments linear ; dark fuscous; cilia fuscous, third 
segment with a small black dorsal scale-tooth beyond middle. 
Burma (Mone) (Manders); Coora, 3,000 feet (New- 
come); NILGIRIS, 3,500 feet (Andrewes) ; CEYLON (Maske- 
liya) (Alston); in August, October, January and May ; 
four specimens. I have also a specimen taken by myself 
at Port Louis, Mauritius,in May. The strong black median 
scale-tooth of fore-wings is characteristic. 
Oxyptilus pelecyntes, n. sp. 
¢ 2. 11-15mm. Head dark fuscous.. Palpi white banded with 
blackish. Antennze white lined with black. Thorax dark fuscous, 
with an ochreous-white posterior spot. Abdomen ochreous-brown 
streaked with blackish, margins of segments mixed with white, with 
an ochreous-white basal patch. Legs white, anterior and middle 
pairs lined with black, posterior pair banded with black. Fore- 
wings cleft from middle, segments narrow, apex of second long- 
produced, slender, termen concave ; dark reddish-fuscous, sprinkled 
with whitish-ochreous ; first segment with a small white spot on base 
of lower margin,and two slender undefined somewhat inwardly oblique 
white bars at 4 and 3; second segment sometimes with a few white 
scales at + and }: cilia on costa ochreous-whitish with black scales 
at base and blackish patches before and between bars, in cleft grey 
with scattered black scales, on dorsum ochreous-white with a black 
scale-tooth before cleft, others at } of second segment and apex, and 
a grey patch mixed with black midway between these. Hind-wings 
cleft firstly from about 4, secondly from near base, segments linear ; 
dark fuscous ; cilia dark grey, on dorsum with two or three scattered 
black scales, and a moderate black scale-projection at + of third 
segment, marked with some black scales on upper side also. 
AssaM (Khasi Hills) in April and September; three 
specimens. 
