SPOLTA ZEYLANIOA. 
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with white. Head whitish, on back of crown fuscous, on vertex 
rough-scaled. Thorax ochreous-brown irrorated with white. Ab¬ 
domen ochreous-brown finely irrorated with blackish, posterior 
margins of segments narrowly edged with white. Legs whitish : 
fore-tibia dilated beneath with a small scale-tuft, fore-tibia and 
fore-tarsus suffused above with fuscous, hind-tarsus with bases of 
joints banded with very pale fuscous. 
Forewing cleft firstly from about J, secondly from near base, 
thirdly from about J, fourthly from within i, fifthly from near base, 
first segment narrow, others perlinear, first segment at base twice 
breadth of second : pale ochreous-brown finely striated transversely 
with blackish : first segment with a white costal dot at about } and 
outwardly-oblique transverse white bars at J, J-, J, and f ; segments 
2-6 cut transversely by six narrow white bars, preceded and followed 
by fine black lines ; on the third segment the third and fourth white 
bars are displaced outwards relatively to the positions of those on 
segments 2 and 4. Cilia very pale ochreous-brown, white opposite 
white bars. 
Hindwing cleft into six perlinear segments, firstly from about 
secondly from base, thirdly from about fourthly and fifthly from 
near base : pale ochreous-brown finely striated transversely witli 
blackish, crossed by about six narrow white bars, preceded and 
followed by blackish. Cilia very pale ochreous-brown, white 
opposite white bars. 
Described from a single specimen taken by myself at Ohiya 
(6,000 feet), on the borders of Uva and the Central Province, 
Ceylon, on August 25, 1906. 
Observation .—This is possibly a montane form of O. pygmcea, Meyr., 
from which species it appears to me, however, to be separated by the 
following characters : (i.) Its larger size ; (ii.) the distinctly annulated 
antennae, only very faintly marked in pygmcea ; (iii.) the darker 
colour of the abdomen, and especially the absence on segment 2 of 
the white dorsal patch and lateral blackish blotches so conspicuous 
in pygmcea ; (iv.) the greater breadth of the first segment of the 
fore wing in comparison with the second segment; (v.) the much 
narrower white bars on the first segment of forewing. A larger 
series will doubtless settle in the future the question of the specific 
distinctness of pygmcea and the present form. 
Orneodes ischalea, Meyr. 
(Plate G, figure 3.) 
Orneodes ischalea , Meyrick, B. J., XVI., 583. 
The original description reads :—“ Male 13 mm. Head white, 
back of crown mixed with fuscous. Palpi white, externally fuscous- 
tinged. Antennae whitish. Thorax whitish, mixed with fuscous. 
Abdomen whitish, irrorated with fuscous, with a clear white trape¬ 
zoidal dorsal patch before, middle, and a spot beyond middle. Legs 
