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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
dorsal series of light-edged blackish A-shaped markings. Legs very 
pale fuscous, longitudinally striated with blackish. 
Fore wing cleft from before \ y first segment parallel-sided, sub- 
falcate, without anal angle, second narrow, posteriorly slightly 
dilated, apex abruptly produced; fuscous, irrorated with dark 
fuscous and blackish ; an undefined spot of dark suffusion towards 
dorsum at about J, and another at base of cleft, the two sometimes 
tending to be connected by a longitudinal area of dark suffusion ; 
first segment with a small triangular costal patch of pale suffusion 
a little before J, a whitish transverse line at about j and a minute 
pale sub-apical patch on costa ; second segment with an inwardly 
oblique whitish line opposite that on first segment ; cilia light 
fuscous, within cleft ochreous-white mixed with black scales 
especially evident posteriorly and near base, on termen with a small 
black scale-tuft near apex, on dorsum with a black scale-tuft 
opposite base of cleft and three scale tufts beyond this, last at tornal 
angle, the third tuft preceded and the fourth followed by a narrow 
patch of ochreous-white. Hind wing cleft firstly from J, secondly 
from near base, segments linear ; dark fuscous : cilia fuscous ; 
third segment on upper margin with a moderate ante-apical patch 
of black scales and a few scattered black scales between this and 
base, on dorsum with a fairly large triangular black scale-tooth at § 
(opposite patch on upper margin but not reaching apex), a small 
apical scale-tuft, and a few scattered black scales between scale-tooth 
and base. 
Five specimens, Colombo (July to September, 1908), collected by 
Mr. F. M. Mackwood. 
This species seems very close to 0. regulus, Meyr., by the descrip¬ 
tion of the latter, but the black triangular scale-tooth on dorsum 
of hind wing does not reach the apex, nor are the two almost basal 
scale-teeth present in 0. regalis. 
In certain fights the “black” scale-tooth of the hind wing shows 
a most beautiful purplish-red iridescence. 
Oxyptilus epideotes, Meyr. 
(Plate A., figure 5.) 
T. E. S., 1907, 476. 
Distribution. —Kandy, Maskeliya, Madulsima. 
Probably widely distributed in the Island, but very inconspicuous 
and easily overlooked. 
Outside of Ceylon it has been recorded from Burma, Coorg, 
the Nilgiri Hills, and Mauritius. 
Early Stages .—Unknown at present, but I have bred the moths 
from Biophytum sensitivum y which is evidently the food plant. 
