Descriptions of Pterophoride and Orneodide. 483 
Assam (Khasi Hills); CeyYLoN (Maskeliya) (Alston) ; in 
March, and from June to October; twelve specimens. 
Very similar to taprobanes, but smaller and blacker, fore- 
wings cleft from ? only (instead of from 3), without dark 
costal blotches, cilia at base of cleft clear white, narrower 
white bars in terminal cilia, and scale-tooth of hind-wings 
all but apical, whereas in taprobanes it is a little before 
apex. 
Platyptilia brachymorpha, Meyr. 
Amblyptilia Seeboldi, Hofm. (Iris, xi, 33), from Syria, 
is a synonym of this species; the description is very 
accurate and unmistakable. The species ranges from 
S. Africa through India to the Hawaiian Islands. 
Platyptilia pusillidactyla, Walk. 
Platyptilia hemimetra, Meyr., Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond. 
1886, 18, is a synonym of this species. I could not deter- 
' mine this identification from Walker’s type, but have 
lately received specimens from his locality (Jamaica), 
which are conclusive. This is another wide-ranging 
insect, known from Réunion, Ceylon, India, and the West 
Indies. 
Platyptilia charitopa, n. sp. 
¢. 12-14 mm. Head and thorax orange-ochreous sprinkled with 
fuscous, frontal tuft very short. Palpi orange-ochreous sprinkled 
with blackish, above’ and beneath mixed with whitish. Antenne 
grey, above blackish with two series of white dots. Abdomen orange- 
ochreous variably mixed or sprinkled with blackish, on back some- 
times mixed with white or pale yellow. Legs orange-ochreous 
sprinkled with dark fuscous, anterior and middle pairs lined with 
black beneath, posterior pair banded with whitish and blackish. 
Fore-wings cleft from 2, segments moderate, posteriorly dilated, 
termen of first indented-concave, of second rounded-prominent in 
middle, sinuate-concave above and below this, rather strongly 
oblique ; orange-ochreous, posterior } and dorsum anteriorly more or 
less sprinkled irregularly with dark fuscous ; costa narrowly black 
dotted with white; acloudy spot of blackish suffusion towards 
dorsum at }, and one in disc at 4; a large triangular blackish blotch 
on costa before cleft, its apex reaching beyond cleft; a broad fascia 
