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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Family.—-PTEROPHORID/E. 
Sub-family. — AGDISTINJZ. 
AGDISTIS, Hb. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
Expanse 24 mm. F.w. with an oblique apical white 
streak . . .. . sinhala 
Expanse 15-16 mm. No apical white streak r . nanodes 
Agdistis nanodes, Meyr. 
B. J., XVII., 136. 
Locality. —Puttalam. The four specimens, on which the species 
is founded, were taken between August and November. 
This species is unknown to me, except from the description 
quoted above. 
Agdistis sinhala, n.s. 
6. Expanse 24 mm. Antennse ciliated (1), gray. Palpi 
densely scaled, gray, faintly irrorated with fuscous ; projecting 
nearly length of head beyond it. Fore legs gray irrorated above 
with fuscous and with a conspicuous dilation at end of tibia. (Second 
pair of legs wanting.) Hind legs very long light, gray, spurs 
minute, first pair at about two-thirds, second pair apical. Head 
gray, with a faint fuscous median line. Thorax pale fuscous, with 
a sub-dorsal grayish longitudinal line. Abdomen very long and 
slender, pale gray, darkening apically ; a pale fuscous dorsal line on 
first three abdominal segments ; anal tuft pale gray. Fore wing 
elongate, narrow, widening exteriorly, with a slightly falcate apex 
and distinct tornal angle ; grayish fuscous ; a dark fuscous bar 
along dorsum from base to about J ; outer third of wing (except 
costa) irrorated with dark fuscous and traversed by an oblique 
white streak most conspicuous in apex. Cilia grayish-fuscous. 
Hind wing triangular, apex acute, outer margin undulate with two 
very shallow excavations in normal positions of clefts; fuscous. 
Cilia fuscous, rather long in vicinity of anal angle. 
Type 6 (No. 6,900) in Coll. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 
Locality. —A single specimen was taken at Kandy on December 22, 
1907, by Mr. E. Ernest Green, to whose kind assistance in working 
at the Pterophoridse of Ceylon I am much indebted. 
Observation. —Unfortunately this specimen is in poor condition, 
but I have carefully compared it with examples of eight Agdistid 
species in my collection and with the descriptions of all the other 
species described in this genus, and have no doubt of its distinctness. 
