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Thorax white, with patches of thick dark-fuscous irroration especially 
evident as a transverse line on prothorax and on and above patagia. 
Abdomen white, suffused with ochreous-fuscous, second segment 
with a large conspicuous dark-fuscous blotch on each side. Legs 
white, fore-tibia and fore-tarsus dark-fuscoiis, hind-tarsus banded 
with dark-fuscous at bases of joints. 
Fore wing cleft firstly from about J, secondly from near base, 
thirdly from about J, fourthly from within J, ^fthly from near base, 
segments 2-6 per linear, first segment very narrow, scarcely twice 
breadth of second : white : first segment with two small blackish 
costal blotches, first subbasal, second at about -J-, followed by three 
outwardly-oblique broad transverse ochreous-brown bars, blackish- 
fuscous on costa, outer edge of third bar very oblique, and continued 
along hinder margin of segment into apex to form an ill-defined 
ochreous-brown apical blotch, an oclireous-brown longitudinal blotch 
on hinder margin of segments 1+2 near base ; segments 2 — 6 with 
about seven broad ochreous-brown transverse bars sprinkled with 
blackish narrowly preceded and followed by blackish, seventh bar 
terminal, first two bars ill-defined and sometimes confluent ; on the 
third segment the fifth bar is much broader than the sixth or seventh 
bars, so that the penultimate and antepenultimate white patches of 
ground-colour are here distinctly displaced outwards as compared 
with the position of similar patches on segments 2 and 4. Cilia 
white, ochreous-brown opposite transverse bars. 
Hindwing white, crossed transversely by seven broad ochreous- 
brown black-sprinkled bars narrowly preceded and followed by 
blackish, seventh bar very narrow, terminal. Cilia white, ochreous- 
brown opposite transverse bars. 
In Ceylon this species appears to occur in scrubby jungle in the 
dry parts of the low-country. I took it at Hambantota on October 
18 and November 8, 1908, when it appeared to be associated with 
a Capparis , which is possibly its food plant. Although not previously 
recorded from Ceylon, my collection also contains specimens from 
Matale (August 15, 1906 ; Pole) and from Madulsima in April, 1907 
( Vaughan). 
Outside of Ceylon 0. pygmcea occurs in Queensland at Brisbane 
and Duaringa, where it is said to swarin sometimes by thousands 
in the scrub. Mr. Meyrick kindly informs me also that he has 
received it from Cuddapah, 4,000 feet, in South India (Campbell). 
Orneodes montigena, n.s. 
(Plate G, figure 2.) 
Expanse 10 mm. Labial palpi rather short, whitish : second joint 
light fuscous at apex, which is expanded exteriorly by an acuminate 
scale-tuft; third joint about J length of second, rather rough-scaled, 
expanded apically with long hair-scales. Antennae finely ciliated, 
beneath whitish, above pale brownish, on basal half clearly annulated 
