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have since obtained several specimens from Parana, Argen- 
tina, which I regard as certainly identical. Mr. T. Bain- 
brigge Fletcher has bred the Ceylon form from Sopubia 
trifida (Scrophulariacex), and has sent me bred examples 
which appear quite normal. Doubtless it has more 
food plants than are at present known. 
ORNEODID. 
ORNEODES, Latr. 
Orneodes nephelotoxa, n. sp. 
dg. 15-16 mm. Head, antenne, and thorax white, face slightly 
sprinkled with grey. Palpi moderate, ascending, somewhat loosely 
scaled, terminal joint somewhat over half second ; white, second 
joint somewhat sprinkled with grey. Abdomen whitish, sprinkled 
with dark fuscous on sides, Legs white, anterior tibiz suffused with 
dark fuscous. Fore-wings white, faintly tinged with fuscous ; 
anterior half of costa dark fuscous interrupted several times with 
white, posterior half with several indistinct fuscous marks ; segments 
2-6 crossed by a moderate fascia before middle and narrow one 
before {, whose margins only are indicated by blackish irroration ; 
cilia white, on fascie light fuscous. Hind-wings white, faintly 
tinged with fuscous ; a moderate grey fascia at 1, irrorated with 
blackish ; a narrower fascia at $, indicated by margins of blackish 
irroration, on first segment dilated and suffused with blackish ; dots 
of blackish irroration near tips of segments; cilia white, on fascize 
more or less tinged or mixed with fuscous. 
Assam (Khasi Hills); two specimens. 
Orneodes pluvialis, n. sp. 
¢. 13mm. Head white, with grey bar on face, and bar of 
blackish- grey irroration on crown. Palpi moderate, ascending, with 
appressed scales, terminal joint about # of second ; white, second 
joint externally grey. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Thorax white. 
Abdomen white, with a blackish lateral mark on second segment, 
and some dots of dark fuscous irroration on sides, Legs white, 
anterior femora and tibize dark fuscous externally. Fore-wings 
white ; first segment with about ten moderately broad fuscous bars 
edged with black irroration ; segments 2-5 with six more or less 
broad fasvize of fuscous irroration edged with black irroration, leav- 
