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blotch ill Olid of cell ; a transverse hyaline spot beyond cell, 

 separated from pi'ecodiiig by a thick bar, and cut by four dark 

 fuscous veins: cilia dark fuscous, beneath tornus dull orange. 

 Hindwings hyaline, veins blackish ; a small thickened lilack mark 

 on transverse vein between 5 and 7 ; a very irregular-edged dark 

 fuscous terminal fascia, widest on cost a and including a suiVused 

 yellowish apical blotch ; dorsal edge reddish-orange ; cilia fuscous, 

 on dorsum reddish orange, 



BiUTisii GiUAN'A, Bartica, Ai)ril [Parish) ; one specimen. 



Melittia arrecta, n. sp, 



2 . 'i^ mm. Head dark fuscous, posterior half of crown olivc- 

 oclireous, a ]iale yellowish bar on forehead, sides of face whitish- 

 yellowish. Palpi wliitish-yellowish with two lines of black 

 bristles. AiiteJina3 blackish, beneath reddish-fuscous. Thorax 

 fulvous, dorsal area centrally dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 

 jmrplish-fuscous, segmental margins very finely whitish-yellow, 

 iirst two segments mostly fulvous. Posterior tibia; orange-fulvous, 

 above with long erect pale yellow hairscales, on sides sprinkled 

 white in middle, beneath with dense rough black scales, tarsi 

 clothed with dense tuft of long rough black hairscales, with a pale 

 yellow patch on side in middle. Eorewings hyaline, veins black; 

 base suffused fulvous ; a dark fuscous costal streak limited by cell 

 ami vein 9, mixed fulvous anteriorly ; a rather thick irregular dark 

 fuscous bar on end of cell, tinged ferruginous on margins; a slender 

 f(!rrugi nous-brown strciik along lower margin of cell; a ferruginous- 

 brown streak along dorsum, l)econnng dark fuscous posteriorly ; 

 a dark fuscous terminal fascia, slightly tinged ferruginous and with 

 some scattered whitish specks, very broad towards costa, including 

 point of furcation of 7 and 8, and irregularly narrowed to tornus : 

 cilia fuscous. Hindwings hyaline, veins black; terminal edge 

 blackish ; cilia fuscous. 



BuKJiA, Koni, September [Mdndcrs); one specimen. 



MEPTICULID.^. 



Nepticula liomophaea, n. sp. 



$ . 4 mm. Head fulvcms, collar grey-whitish. Antenn;e grey, 

 eyecaps grey-whitish. Thorax grey. Abdomen whitish-grey. 

 Forewings lanceolate; uniform glossy grty : cilia pale grey, darker 

 towards bas3. Hindwings and cilia pale grey. 



Kanaka, Dharwar, February [Maxwell) ; one specimen. 



Nepticula argyrodoxa, n. sp. 



d 2- ^■o-3"5 mm. Head u hitish-ochreous. Antenna; dark 

 grey, eyecaps jiale silvery-ochreous. Thorax dark bronzy-grey. 

 Abdomen shining dark grey. Forewings lanceolate ; dark grej- 

 sprinkled black, hardly perceptibly purplish-tinged ; basal | of 



