Descriptions of Pterophoride and Orneodidx. 507 
edged with blackish irroration, fourth broadest, represented on sixth 
segment by a blackish spot: cilia white, on fascize pale yellowish. 
Hind-wings white ; fascize mostly reduced to single dots of blackish 
irroration, but postmedian fascia faintly yellowish ; sixth segment 
with three posterior dots only. 
CEYLON (Madulsima, Wellawaya), in November (Pole, 
Green, Vaughan); four specimens. 
Orneodes niphostrota, n. sp. 
¢ @. 21-22 mm. Head and thorax white tinged or sprinkled 
with pale ochreous. Palpi moderate, ascending, loosely scaled, 
terminal joint } of second; grey, terminal joint white towards apex. 
Antennz pale whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish, with subbasal 
and subapical bands and lateral stripes of fuscous irroration. Legs 
whitish, anterior femora and tibiee suffused with dark fuscous ex- 
ternally. Fore-wings white ; basal half tinged with ochreous and 
partially sprinkled with dark fuscous, especially on base of costa 
and towards base of lowest cleft ; segments crossed by four fuscous 
fasci sprinkled with blackish, and an additioual blotch on first two 
segments between third and fourth fascice, the blotch and upper half 
of second fascia darker than the rest, first three fascia moderate, 
angulated on fourth segment, first obsolete towards costa, third 
narrow on fourth and fifth segments, fourth narrow throughout, sub- 
apical, all widely separated on sixth segment: cilia ochreous-whitish, 
slightly tinged with fuscous on fasciz. Hind-wings white ; basal 
third irrorated with dark fuscous except at base ; segments crossed 
by four rather narrow curved or angulated fuscous fasciz sprinkled 
with blackish ; cilia as in fore-wings. 
Cryton (Maskeliya), in October and January (de 
Mowbray, Alston); two specimens. 
Orneodes chloracta, n. sp. 
2.16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpilong, whitish, second 
joint somewhat rough-scaled above and towards apex beneath, 
sprinkled with grey, terminal joint porrected, hardly over half 
second, with grey median ring. Thorax and abdomen ochreous- 
whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Fore-wings ochreous-whitish, 
sprinkled with fuscous except on first segment ; basal area sprinkled 
with dark fuscous; three small semi-oval fuscous spots on anterior 
half of costa ; segments 2-6 crossed by two broad slightly curved 
fascise of fuscous irroration before middle of wing and about 3, and 
a slender fascia before apex of segments, these fascise edged with 
