312 PBECT SLADEN TEUST EXPEDITION. 



Pore wing very pale yellowish-grey irrorated with fuscous ; costal margin strongly 

 marked with dark fuscous ; termen rather broadly margined with dark fuscous suffusion ; 

 a dark fuscous transverse striga at :j ; a blackish-fuscous cellular dot touching vein 8 

 at ^ of wing-length ; a blackish-fuscous discocellular bar prolonged to dorsum as a dark 

 fuscous outwardly-waved striga ; an outwardly-oblique dark fuscous curved striga from 

 costa at about | running into termen at termination of vein 2 : cilia greyish-fuscous, 

 darker at base. 



Hind wing very pale yellowish-grey irrorated posteriorly with fuscous ; an antemedial 

 dark-fuscous cellular bar prolonged to tornus as an outwardly-cvirved striga ; a dark- 

 fuscous striga from costa at f to termination of vein 2 ; termen strongly suffused with 

 dark fuscous : cilia greyish-fuscous, darker at base, grey-white at tornus and along 

 dorsum. 



Seychelles. — Pive specimens : three taken in jungle above Cascade Estate, Mahe, 

 November 1905 ; two received from Mr. J. A. de Gaye, one labelled " Cascade, March," 

 the other " Cascade Porest, March." 



In its build, pattern of markings, and general appearance this species much resembles 

 a Steiiia, but only veins 8 and 9 of the fore wing are branched, 10 running out of cell 

 parallel to 9. 



Distribution. — Seychelles (Mahe). 



Family PterophoridaB. 



146. Trichoptilus defectaliSyWlk. 

 Pterophorus defedalis, Walk., Cat. xxx. p. 9Jf3. 

 Pterophorus congrualis, Walk., Cat. xxx. p. 943. 



Trichoptilus oxydactylus, Walsm., Faun. Hawaii Micro-Lep. t. 10. f. 3 (1907). 

 Trichoptilus congrualis, Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan. vi. p. 28, t. A. f. 8, & t. F. figs. 2, 3 (larva, pupa) 

 (1909). 



Chagos. — Nine examples, eight from Salomon (1 6 , Boddam I., 24 May ; 3 c? , 

 I. Anglaise, 31 May ; 1 S , I. de la Passe, 22 June ; 3 ? without exact data) and one 

 6 from Peros Banhos (I. du Coin, 25 June). 



Coetivy. — Ten specimens ; noted as fairly common on 10 September, and as abundant 

 on 24 September. 



Parquhar I. — Seventeen specimens. Locally abundant in North Island, 1 October. 



Poivre. — Pour specimens. Common, 10 October, 1905. 



D'Arros. — Pour specimens ; 13 October. Not common. 



Desroches. — Pour specimens ; 14 October. Abundant. 



Eagle I. — Three specimens ; 17 October. Abundant everywhere. 



Distribution. — Plorida; W. Indies; Peru; W., S., and E. Africa; Mauritius; 

 Parquhar I. Amirantes; Seychelles (Dennis I.) ; Coetivy; Sokotra ; Chagos; Ceylon; 

 throughout India to China and New Guinea ; Queensland. 



In Ceylon I have found the larva on Boerhavia repens, but probably it has other food- 

 plants also. 



