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bar crossed on segments 1-4 by three, on segments 5 and 6 by only 
two, narrower blackish-brown bars. Cilia white, pale brownish 
opposite dark bars. 
A distinct little species, easily recognized by its pure-white colour 
and the conspicuous dark fascia across the centre of the hindwing. 
Described from two examples (of which the former is the type) 
taken by myself at light on Sober Island, in Trincomalee Harbour, 
on November 4 and December 8, 1906. Mr. Meyrick, who has 
kindly examined the type, remarks that he has an apparently 
similar specimen collected in the Central Province by Mr. G. B. 
de Mowbray. 
Orneodes sycophanta, Meyr. 
(Plate H, figure 7.) 
Orneodes sycophanta, Meyrick, B. J., XVII., 133. 
“ Male and female. 15-18 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi 
smooth-scaled, white, apex of basal and second joints and subapical 
ring of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae stout, serrate, 
whitish-ochreous, basal joint white. Abdomen white, segments 
2-4 partially or wholly dark fuscous above (number of dark segments 
variable). Fore wings white; first segment fuscous, with four 
blackish white-edged spots, fourth apical; second segment fuscous, 
with three dark fuscous bands, limited by white spots edged with 
blackish-fuscous ; segments 3-6 crossed by two anterior series of 
undefined dark fuscous dots, and four posterior pale grayish-ochreous 
fasciae, edged with dark fuscous, but these vary much in distinctness, 
and are often partially obsolete ; usually a distinct blackish-fuscous 
spot on middle of sixth segment. Hindwings white, with six 
transverse series of pale ochreous spots, speckled with black.” 
To the above I would add that the third palpal joint is about f the 
length of the second ; that the head is white, the crown with large 
ill-defined blackish spots above and between bases of antennae ; that 
the legs are whitish, the fore-femur exteriorly blackish on terminal 
half, the fore-tibia blackish with a long scale-tuft on inner side ; and 
that the first segment of the fore wing is about twice the breadth of 
the secbnd segment. 
This species only appears to be known from Maskeliya, where it 
has been taken by Mr. Pole in January, April, May, and July. 
I am indebted to Mr. Meyrick for the loan of the specimen from 
which the figure has been drawn. 
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Orneodes toxophila, Meyr. 
(Plate H, figure 8.) 
Orneodes toxophila, Meyrick, B. J., XVII., 133. 
u Male. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi with 
appressed scales, white, towards base sprinkled with fuscous. 
