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paler beneath; legs pale. Winga brownish, veins yellowish brown, faintly 

 interrupted with dark dots, gradates black, a deep black spot near base of 

 wings over subcostal cross-vein and those behind it. Wings not as slender as 

 in A'^. affiiiis and N. iniquus, venation about the same, the second radial sector 

 does not fork till behind the stigma, where the radius also forks. 

 Length of fore wing 3.5 mm. 



Differs from allies in smaller size, darker wings, in forking of second 

 radial sector and proportionally broader wings. 



Notiobiella valida sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,851. Borneo: Sandakan (C. F. Baker). 



Head pale, dark across below the antennae, and dark beneath eyes, a spot 

 each side on vertex, connected behind; palpi brown; antennae pale; pro- 

 notum dull blackish, the posterior sides pale; thorax blackish, scuteUum pale; 

 abdomen pale, tips of segment dark ( 9 ), in the male the abdomen pale, dark 

 on last two segments; legs pale, tibia with dark spot near tip. Wings slightly 

 fumose, venation reddish, gradates black and also the forkings of most of the 

 veins, dark spot at base of stigma, and extreme base of costal margin black, no 

 large black sj^ot near base. Wings broad, rounded at tip, the second radial 

 sector forked three times before the stigma where it is connected back to radius 

 by a cross- vein; in the male there is a large, impressed, circular, scabrous, 

 dark mark situated on the first radial sector a little before it forks; the male 

 appendages are very large. 



Length of fore wing 4.5 mm. 



This species may, perhaps, form a new subgenus. 



MiCROMUS PICTIPES, sp. nov. 



Ti'PE. — ^ M. C. Z. 10,853. Philippines — Luzon: Benguet; Baguio 

 (C. F. Baker). 



Head pale, with dark spot each side on face and below the eyes, vertex with 

 a black dot each side; pronotum dark with two pale tubercles near middle, 

 rest of thorax and the abdomen dark; legs pale, much spotted, the femora 

 with dark band before the middle, the tibia with dark band before the middle 

 and another near tip, the tarsi banded. Wings hyaline, venation dark and 

 pale in the usual streaks, but more dark than pale, the spots along the outer 

 costal margin very distinct, the gradate veins heavily bordered with blackish, 

 a large spot at end of the anal vein, and a mark at bend of the cubitus. Nine 



