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INSECTS. 
[Chap. XII. 
meta Cramerii, Westw. ; K Templetonii, Westw. ; and 
Cryptothelea consorta, Temp. 
All the other tribes of minute Lepitoptera have abun- 
dant representatives in Ceylon ; some of them most 
attractive from the great beauty of their markings and 
colouring. The curious little split- winged moth (Ptero- 
phorus) is frequently seen in the cinnamon gardens and 
in the vicinity of the fort, hid from the noon-day heat 
among the cool grass shaded by the coco-nut topes. 
Three species have been captured, all characterised by 
the same singular feature of having the wings fan-like, 
separated nearly their entire length into detached sec- 
tions, resembling feathers in the pinions of a bird 
expanded for flight. 
Homopteea. Cicada. — Of the Homoptera, the one 
which will most frequently arrest attention is the cicada, 
which, resting high up on the bark of a tree, makes the 
forest re-echo with a long-sustained noise so curiously 
resembling that of a cutler's wheel that the creature 
producing it has acquired the highly-appropriate name 
of the "knife-grinder." 
CICADA — " THE KNIFE •GRINDER." 
In the jungle which adjoined the grounds attached 
to my official residence at Kandy, the shrubs were fre- 
quented by an insect covered profusely with a snow-white 
powder, arranged in delicate filaments that curl like 
