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PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 



single example in the Botanical Garden at Port Victoria, Mah^, on 31st October, 1905, 

 during the ' Sealark ' Expedition. 



2)/s/ri6M(!/o«.— West Indies; India; Ceylon; Hongkong; Honolulu. 



(6) Flatyptilia claripicta, sp. n. 



cf . Exp. 15 mm. — Palpi ascending, reaching above vertex, second joint triangularly- 

 dilated with rough scales, third joint short ; ochreous-fuscous, third joint banded with 

 reddish-fuscous before apex. Head greyish-fuscous, vertex with projecting cone of scales. 



Fig. 3. — Platyptilia daripicUi. Profile view of head, showing palpus and frontal tuft. 



Antennae minutely ciliated ; pale fuscous annulated with blackish. Thorax greyish- 

 fuscous. Legs greyish, striated and banded with blackish-fuscous. Posterior tibia dilated 

 at apex with blackish-fuscous scales and banded at § with blackish-fuscous, emitting 

 two pairs of moderate blackish-tiiipcd spurs, of which the inner are the longer. Posterior 

 tarsus blackish-fuscous on apical half of first joint, other joints narrowly dark fuscous 



apically. 



Pore wing cleft from about f : first segment parallel-sided, apex acute, termen sub- 

 falcate, posterior angle well-marked ; second segment as broad basally as first, expanded 

 posteriorly, both angles well marked but slightly rounded off, termen subsinuately 

 convex : whitish-grey with a more or less fuscous or ochreous tinge and minutely 

 irrorated with blackish-fuscous, most apparent along basal half of costa and on dorsal 

 region ; a longitudinal small blackish subcostal spot at f ; a large blackish costal triangle 

 before f , its apex running obliquely into basal half of second segment, its outer edge 

 straight to base of cleft (which it does not touch) and clearly defined; first segment with 

 some fuscous suffusion on costa beyond \, sometimes reaching across segment, its outer 

 fifth (except at apex) dark fuscous edged internally with blackish ; second segment 

 sufixised with light fuscous, its outer fifth dark fuscous edged internally by blackish and 

 preceded by a narrow whitish line jiarallel to termen. Cilia on costa blackish to f , pale 

 fuscoiis before apex ; on termen whitish, basally black preceded by fuscous ; within cleft 

 greyish, blackish opposite terminal suffusion ; on dorsum greyish with a few scattered 

 black scales intermixed, some black scales scarcely forming a small black scale-tqoth at 

 I and a blackish wisp tornaUy. 



