SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
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Triscjsdecia dactyloptera, Hmpsn. 
Trisccedecia dactyloptera, Hampson, T. E. S., 1905, 247-248 (fig.). 
“ Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with whitish, pale 
brown, and black scales ; antennse and legs mixed with whitish ; 
abdomen with diffused blackish bands. 
Fore wing clothed with grayish, pale brown, and black scales ; the 
costa with whitish spots between the [six] black tufts of scales ; the 
cell with small black lunules followed by whitish spots at middle 
and extremity ; traces of a diffused oblique whitish band from lower 
angle of cell to inner margin ; an indistinct slightly waved whitish 
postmedial line ; the plumes with white spots at base and subterminal 
and terminal series of white lunules. 
THscae3.ecia 3aef^lo]btera. 
m . p . Maxillary palp. 
Hindwing with the basal half white with diffused irregular black 
antemedial and two medial lines on it, the first of the medial lines 
arising from a discoidal bar ; a slightly waved whitish postmedial 
line ; the plumes with white spots at base fand subterminal and 
terminal series of white lunules. 
Habitat. —Ceylon, Maskeliya (J. Pole), Oliiya (Gossage). Expanse 
26 mm. Type in B. M.” 
Reference to the specimens in the National Collection shows that 
the type of this species is the Maskeliya specimen referred to above. 
My own examples are from Maskeliya (De Mowbray , Pole ) and 
Madulsima (Vaughan). The only other example which I have seen 
is a very old one, without definite locality, which I found in the 
Colombo Museum figuring under the name of Tinm (!) alucitana. 
