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Eight specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January, May, and July (Pole). 



Omeodes trachyptera, n. sp. 



$ $. 10 — 13 mm. Head palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, 

 mixed with whitish ; palpi with second joint dilated with rough scales towards 

 apex above and beneath, terminal joint thickened with loose scales towards apex 

 anteriorly. Forewings with costa roughened with projecting dark fuscous 

 scales, except on the white markings ; whitish, densely irrorated with dark 

 fuscous, so as to appear dark grey ; costa with six or seven small semioval 

 ochreous-white spots, not reaching more than half across first segment ; other 

 segments crossed by about six series of ochreous-white dots, united by out- 

 wardly oblique whitish dashes in the cilia to form zigzag lines. Hindwings with 

 ground colour and zigzag lines as in forewings. 



Six specimens, Puttalam and Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March, May, November 

 and December (Pole, de Mowbray). 



Pterophokid^e. 



Cosmoclostis pesseuta, n. sp. 



$ 9. 12 — 13 mm. Head brownish-ochreous, front of crown white. Palpi 

 short, whitish, sprinkled with fuscous. Thorax white, anterior and posterior 

 margins ochreous. Abdomen in $ white, irregularly marked with ferrugin- 

 ous ; in $ pale yellow, last three segments marked with ferruginous. Fore- 

 wings cleft from before §, segments linear ; white, costal half irrorated with 

 fuscous from base of wing to middle of first segment ; first segment with a 

 small dark fuscous mark on its lower margin near base, dark fuscous bands 

 about middle and f, and some irregularly strewn dark fuscous scales posteriorly,- 

 second segment with dark fuscous bands towards base, beyond middle, and 

 before apex, variable in development and first two sometimes very wide ; cilia 

 light ochreous-grey, somewhat suffused with whitish opposite white areas. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Two specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in February and April (Pole). 



Cosmoclostis aglaodesma, Meyr. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, from October to January (Pole). Occurs also in Eastern 

 Australia, and some of the South Pacific and Malayan Islands. 



Trichoptilus xerodes, Meyr. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, in October (Green, Pole). Widely distributed in 

 Australia. 



Trichoptilus Wahlbergi, Zell. 



(Pterophorus Wahlbergi, Zell. Linn. Ent. VI, 346, Mic. Caff. 117 ; P. rutilalis, 

 Walk. Cat. 943 ; Trichoptilus pyrrhodes, Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 

 1889, 1113.) 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March and May (Pole). Occurs from S. Africa to 

 E. Australia. 



Deuterocopus Tengstroemi, Zell. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in October (Pole) ; Surat, Bombay, in August (Maxwel 

 Lefroy). Occurs also from S. Africa to New Guinea. 



