PLUME-MOTHS OF CEYLON. 
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Synonyms and Citations. 
The more important of these will be found quoted under the 
various species, but I regret to say that many of these papers are 
inaccessible to the ordinary student in Ceylon, i.e., no copies are to 
be found in any public or scientific library in the Island. The most 
generally useful papers are those on the family by Mr. Meyrick in 
Trans. Entom. Soc., London, for 1886 and 1907, and in the Bombay 
Society’s Journal, vol. XVI., part 4, et seq. The descriptions in 
Walker’s Catalogue are hopeless without reference to the type- 
specimens, and Moore’s “ Lepidoptera of Ceylon” and Cotes’ and 
Swinhoe’s “ Catalogue of the Moths of India ” may safely be ignored 
by workers in this group. 
Contractions. 
The following contractions are employed :—- 
B. J. 
E. M. M. 
Entom. 
f.w. . . 
h.w. 
Linn. Ent. VI. . 
Meyr. 
Pag. 
P. Z. S. 
T. E. 8. 
Wlk., Cat, XXX 
Wlsm. 
Zell. 
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 
Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine. 
The Entomologist, 
fore wing: 
hind wing. 
Linnsea Entomologica, Vol. VI. (1852). 
E. Meyrick. 
A. Pagenstecher. 
Proc. Zoological Society of London. 
Trans. Entomological Society of London. 
F. Walker, List of the Lepidopterous Insects in 
the British Museum, Part XXX. (London, 
1864). 
Lord Walsingham. 
P. C. Zeller. 
Localities. (See Map.) 
Parts of the Island have been fairly well worked, e.g., the districts 
around Kandy, Maskeliya, Madulsima, and Diyatalawa ; of other 
parts we know a little, e.g., Puttalam, Trincomalee, and the coast 
line between Colombo and Hambantota ; the rest of Ceylon is as 
yet practically a terra incognita . As places likely to yield novelties 
1 would especially indicate the Ratnapura District, the Kelani 
Valley, and that part of the Island lying north of a line drawn 
from Puttalam to Trincomalee. 
Times of Appearance. 
As a rule, I have thought it unnecessary to enumerate exact dates 
of capture, as my experience has led me to conclude that nearly all 
our Ceylon plumes are continuously-brooded, and that some indi¬ 
viduals may be found at almost any time of the year. I would 
impress upon collectors, however, the desirability of recording exact 
dates of capture on the labels of all their specimens. 
