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From Pusa, Bengal, India; in March and April; eating 

 caterpillar on cabbage. 



FAMILY LEPTOCERID^. 



CEcetina insignis, new species. 



Dark, heavily clothed with hair. Head with gray and black hair; 

 palpi with long gray and some white hair; antennae dark, narrowly 

 annulate with white. Abdomen dull black; legs with some whitish 

 and some iridescent appressed hair. Wings dark, with short golden 

 or tawny hair, heavily marked with black spots on forkings of all 

 veins on the tips of veins, on outer margin, a large long patch on basal 

 part of costal margin, one beyond middle on costa, and the stigma 

 black; on disk of wing is a zigzag streak over the basal part of the 

 discal cell, then back on median vein, and then out on cubitus, making 

 a very prominent marking; hind wings dusky with blackish fringe. 

 Fore wings slender, with venation much as in CE. notata, but the 

 cross-veins behind discal cell are much dislocated, and fork Sis longer 

 than fork 1; in the hind wings the posterior fork is only one-third as 

 long as anterior fork. Expanse 14 mm. 



From Bassein Fort, Bombay, India, October. 



Leptocella maculata, new species. 



Yellowish white, with white hair, antennae only very indistinctly an- 

 nulate with brown; fore wings brownish hyaline, with a few brown 

 spots on the forkings of the veins, the anastomosis partly brown, also 

 the vein connecting discal cell to the radius, a hyaline whitish dot be- 

 hind this cross-vein on the upper edge of the thyridial cell; the largest 

 brown spot is on the forking of the median vein; hind wings wholly 

 hyaline, with white fringe, the anterior veins only faintly indicated, 

 but show a fork 1. In fore wings forks 1 and 3 are of equal length, 

 while the second subapical cell is wider near base than at tip. Ex- 

 panse 21 mm. 



From Pusa, Bengal, July 30, on rice leaves. 



/.ep/occrns i/n/icus Walk, may belong to this genus but 

 could not be this species, for the wings are evidently more 

 heavily marked. 



Setodes postica, new species. 



Head with whitish gray hair; antennae with black on apical part of 

 each joint, broader on joints near middle of antennae than elsewhere; 

 palpi gray-h;ihvd; thorax with gray hairs; abdomen yellowish, legs 

 pale yellowish, wings blackish on anterior part, the hind border 

 darker than elsewhere; the posterior part of wing is pale gray and 

 contains several black dots, one at the anal angle; beyond this th <? 

 marginal fringe is very long; the anterior dark part is sometimes 



