482 Mr. E. Meyrick’s Notes and 
to the African species described by Lord Walsingham as 
Crocydoseelus ferruginewm, but I do not consider the genus 
Crocydoscelus suticiently distinct from Platyptilia. 
Platyptilia donatella, Walk. 
This South American species is the type of the genus 
Sochchora, Walk., but it appears to differ in no important 
particular from Platyptilia, of which I therefore regard 
Sochchora aS a synonym. 
Platyptilia taprobanes, Feld. 
(Amblyptilia taprobanes, Feld., Reis. Nov. pl. CXL, 54; 
Platyptilia Sythoffi, Snell. Tayd. v. Ent. XLVI, 54, pl. V, 
15, 16.) 
Felder’s figure is very poor, but notwithstanding can 
only be this species. CEYLON (Madulsima, Pattipola, 
Maskeliya, Peradeniya) (Green, Pole, Alston); S. INDIA 
(Palni Hills) (Campbell); Assam (Khasi Hills); from 
April to January, a hill species, received in plenty. 
Described by Snellen from Java, 
Platyptilia citropleura, n. sp. 
é @. 15-18 mm. Head blackish, sides, a frontal row of dots, and 
lower part of face pale yellow. Palpi black, beneath spotted with 
pale yellowish. Antenne blackish. Thorax dark ferruginous- 
uscous, central third blue-black on anterior half, beneath and on 
sides of metathorax pale clear yellow. Abdomen dark ferruginous- 
fuscous, on dorsum blue-blackish, beneath with a series of pale 
yellow spots. Legs blackish dotted with white, posterior tarsi with 
three apical joints mostly white. Fore-wings cleft from ?, segments 
broad, termen oblique, on second segment bowed ; dark ferruginous- 
fuscous becoming blackish posteriorly ; a series of minute white 
costal and subcostal dots, last four larger and costal ; sometimes a 
few scattered white scales in disc ; a very fine white line near termen 
on first segment and upper half of second: cilia on termen blackish 
spotted with white, whitish on inner half of cleft and blackish-grey 
on outer half, on dorsum whitish with black scale-teeth before and 
beyond 3, and a small grey posterior patch. Hind-wings cleft firstly 
from 4, secondly from 4, apex of second segment slenderly produced, 
third segment short ; blackish ; cilia grey, third segment with a very 
sma]] triangular black dorsal scale-tooth almost at apex. 
