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j)ale yellow, the two apical joints brown ; antennae shorter than the wings, blackish 
brown, the base, as far as the fourth joint, paler; thorax blackish-brown; superior 
wings clothed with black scales, intermingled with silvery and golden ; paler spots 
near the apex, two quadrangular silvery spots on the anterior margin near the 
tibiae at the knees and before the apex, as also the basal half of the first tarsal 
joint and the two following, black. 
Long. 2 3 /4— 3 Y 2 mill.; exp. alar. 5 1 h—l mill. 
Ceylon: Rambodde (Nietner). This species is found in troops of forty to 
fifty on the wales of houses. In two smaller individuals, probably males, the part 
between the eyes (which are more prominent) is narrower.» 
P. superbum Hagen 1865. 
Amphientomum superbum Nietner in litt. ; Hagen Ent. Mo. Mag. Voi. II. 1865. 
p. 150. 
Perientomum superbum Hagen Verh. d. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 1866. p. 210. 
Hagen 1. c. 1865. p. 150: 
«Head reddish-brown, at least on the occiput, a brown band in the middle 
to the ocelli (which are close together), and another on each side towards the eyes ; 
labrum black ; palpi black, the terminal joint white ; antennae short, blackish-brown, 
the apex of the third and fourth joints white ; thorax blackish-brown, with golden 
scales posteriorly ; abdomen black ; superior wings velvety black, with golden scales 
intermingled, a golden spot on the middle of the posterior margin, and a similar 
one more towards the apex, several smaller ones at the apex ; inferior wings hyaline, 
greyish ; legs black, the knees, apex of the tibiae and of the first tarsal joint, reddish- 
yellow ( c? and Ç ). * 
Long. 2 V 2 —3 mill., exp. alar. 5—6 mill. 
Ceylon: Rambodde (Nietner), on the wales of houses. 
M. Nietner describes in his lettre two species (A. plagiatimi and Arnph. ma¬ 
culatum) which I have not seen ; as he is so good an observer, we must await the 
arrival of these two species of this curious Ceylon genus.» 
P. incultum Hagen 1865. 
Amphientomum incultum Hagen Ent. Mo. Mag. Voi. II. 1865. p. 149. 
Amphientomum lepidopterum Hagen Bernst. Neur. B., Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 
1866. p. 204. 
Perientomum incultum Hagen Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 1866. p. 204 und 210. 
Hagen 1. c. 1865. p. 149: 
«Head and palpi black; ocelli very distant, the posterior close to the eyes; 
antennae brown, slender, about 15-jointed, one-half shorter than the wings; thorax 
and inferior wings covered with blackish-brown and silver scales intermixed ; in¬ 
ferior wings hyaline, greyish; legs dull yellow, the upper side of the femora, the 
base and a broad band before the apex of the tibiae, and the base of the first 
tarsal joint, black. 
Long. 3 V 2 mill., exp. alar. 7 mill. 
