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than the penultimate, the remainder of the palps looking like one 

 long segment, the jointing being invisible owing to the scales : 

 colour deep brown ; creamy- white scales form an apparent band 

 at the base of the two apical segments, and there is another very 

 narrow pale band half-way down the remainder of the palps ; the 

 two apical segments have blackish plume-hairs, and also both 

 sides of the apex of the ante-penultimate segment. Legs as in 

 the 9 ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrated ; the hind 

 ones simple ('? equal). 



Wings much as in 9 . 



Length. — 4*3 mm. 



Habitat. — Galgamuwa, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — August (1902). 



Observations. — Described from two perfect J 's and one $. 

 The species is very marked, but unless examined microscopically 

 might easily be placed in Grabhmnia, from which it is separated 

 by the small flat scutellar scales. 



Genus APOROCULEX. nov. gen. 



Head clothed with narrow-curved scales, small flat lateral 

 ones, and broadly expanded upright forked scales. Basal 

 segment of antennae with small scales ; prothoracic lobes with 

 narrow-curved scales and chaetae ; mesonotum with narrow - 

 curved scales. Palpi short in 9 . 



Wings with Cuhw venation, but the posterior cross-vein 

 slopes prominently in basal direction. Wings with large 

 spatulate scales on the first long vein ; the median vein-scalr> 

 large and spatulate, but absent on the branches of the second 

 long vein, lateral vein-scales like Cnle.v. 



This genus is based on the squamose characters of the wings, 

 whilst the unusual direction of the posterior cross-vein and the 

 broadly expanded upright forked-scales may be taken as secondary 

 generic characters. 



The genus comes between Oulew and Grahhomia. 



Apoboculbx PUNCTIPES. n. sp. 



Head dee]) brown with some deep golden median scales: 

 proboscis brown with a narrow pale median creamy band. 



