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segments cut by a single white scale near before apex, on dorsum with a 

 blackish scale-projection just beyond cleft, at apex of wing with a blackish 

 bar, on costa brownish-ochreous with a dark fuscous patch on middle of 

 first segment. Hindwings dark fuscous, tinged with crimson anteriorly, 

 and near base with ferruginous ; cilia rosj^ -fuscous, on dorsum with a small 

 triargular blackish scale-projection just before middle of third segment, 

 and a large circular blackish scale-projection occupying its apex on both 

 margins. 



Hambantota and Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole, Fletcher) ; in October and 

 November, eight specimens. This is the form bred in plenty by Mr. 

 Fletcher from larvps feeding on flowers of Vitis quadrangularis ; it is the 

 commonest Ceylon form (I have seen numerous specimens besides those 

 here described), but possesses characters which I have never met with in 

 examples from other localities. Mr. Fletcher includes it in his account of 

 socotranus, but together with what I regard as heterogeneous material from 

 various regions, 



Deuterocopus alopecodes, n. sp. 



c? 2 . 10-11 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous, thorax beneath whitish-yellow. Palpi whitish, second and termi- 

 nal joints each with two ferruginous bands. Antennse black, lined and 

 dotted with white, ciliations in c? \- Abdomen ferruginous, basal segment 

 with two small white spots, posterior margin of second segment somewhat 

 mixed with white, two or three pairs of white dots or slight marks on 

 posterior segments, beneath whitish-yellow with well-marked entire deep 

 ferruginous band on posterior margin of third segment. Legs ferruginous 

 banded with dark fuscous suftusion on whorls, and more or less obscurely 

 ringed with white. Forewings with lower cleft over f of upper ; ferru- 

 ginous, variably irrorated with dark fuscovis ; the dark irroration forms 

 a patch on base of first segment and a band at its middle, latter sometimes 

 hardly marked, its margins sometimes indicated by a few white scales ; two 

 or three white scales on second segment beyond its middle : cilia golden- 

 bronzy, slightly mixed with white scales on basal f of upper cleft and basal 

 half of lower, beyond this with a patch of dark fuscous suflusion on upper 

 margin of second and third segments reaching apex, and on lower margin 

 of all segments separated by a pale patch from a blackish downwards-direc- 

 ted triangular apical scaletooth, most distinctly on second and third 

 segments, outer edge of apical scaleteeth nearly straight but dislocated and 

 not in the same line, on dorsum with a slender blackish scale-projection 

 just beyond cleft, at apex of wing with a blackish bar, on costa f erruginous- 

 ochreous with a blackish patch on middle of first segment. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous, . third segment ferruginous ; cilia golden-bronzy, sometimes 

 rosy-tinged, on dorsum with a small triangular scaletooth of ferruginous 

 and black scales before middle of third segment, and a large angular 

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