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No. XIV.— THE ORNEODIDiE AND PTEROPHOllID^ OF THE 

 SEYCHELLES EXPEDITION. 



By T. Bainbrigge Eletcher, R.N., F.E.S. 



{Communicated by J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



(With 4 Text-figures.) 



Read 17th February, 1910. 



The present paper deals with the Orneodidse and Pterophoridse collected in 1908-09 by 

 Mr. Hugh Scott and Mr. J. C. F. Fr^er in the Seychelles and i\ldahra, and includes 

 examples of ten species, of which four are here described as novelties. Of these groups 

 of Lepidoptera we now know eight species which occur in the Seychelles and three whicli 

 are found in Aldabra, as against three only which had been previously recorded from the 

 Seychelles, none having been recorded from Aldabra before. 



Family OENEODIDai. 



(1) Orneodes seychellensis, sp. n. 



6 ? . Exp. 11 mm. — Palpi porrect, long, second joint thickly and roughly scaled, 

 with projecting apical scale-tuft ; third joint filiform, about half length of second (without 

 scale-tuft) ; second joint blackish fuscous, third white, black at extreme base and broadly 



Fig. 1.— Orneodes seychellensis. Profile view of head. 



banded with black before apex. Head ochreous-grey, frons blackish fuscous. Antennae 

 finely ciliated (about i), ochreous-grey, dotted with black externally. Thorax grey-white, 



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