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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Since writing the above I have examined a specimen collected 
by Dr. A. Willey at Trincomalee on October 4, 1908, and have also 
received an example taken by Mr. W. Ormiston at Haldummulla 
in November. 
On September 10 Mr. W. Vaughan obtained a second specimen 
at Arawa, and a few days later bred a third from a pupa found 
suspended from the upper surface of a leaf of Dimorphocalyx glabel¬ 
lus in the same locality. Furnished with this information, and 
thanks to Mr. Vaughan’s kind assistance, I was able to visit Arawa 
on several occasions during December and found the moths quite 
common. They were at first obtained rather sparingly by beating 
D. glabellus, but later on I found them in abundance flying in the 
bright morning sunshine (about 10 to 11 a.m.) around the flowers of 
Leea sambucina (Sinh. “ Bouroula ”). In several cases I noted 
that the moths were actually feeding on the flowers, their tongues 
unrolled and thrust violently into the flower in search of food. 
In other cases they were settled on the leaves, when they hung 
down freely suspended by the first two pairs of legs, the wings folded 
and held out at right angles, the tip of the abdomen strongly curved 
upwards, and the posterior legs with the tibiae extended at an angle 
between the wings and the abdomen, and the tarsi curved inwards 
until the distal tarsal joint nearly touched the apex of the abdomen. 
An examination of a long series shows that 0. vaughani may 
differ from the type, as described above, in the following points :— 
(1) The white spots on the first segment of the fore wing are some¬ 
times developed into distinct, though narrow, transverse bands. 
(2) The white bands on the hind legs are sometimes very indistinct. 
(3) The fifth abdominal segment is usually less suffused with 
white scales. The narrow white bar on the fourth abdominal 
segment, however, is always very distinct and characteristic. 
The larva will probably be found to feed inside the fruit of 
Dimorphocalyx glabellus (Sinh. “ Weliwenna ”), from which I also 
beat an example of 0. vaughani at Alutnuwara on December 16, 
1908. r 
Oxyptilus causodes, Meyr. 
(Plate A., figure 4.) 
B. J., XVI., 582. 
Distribution. —Peradeniya. Not known outside of Ceylon, and 
at present only recorded from a single tree of Dillenia retusa in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens. 
Early Stages. —The egg and young larva are unknown. 
Larva. —The larva feeds inside the fleshy fruits of Dillenia retusa 
(Sinh. “ Godapara”), emerging from the fallen fruit when full-fed 
to suspend itself for pupation on any neighbouring object. 
