igii.] E. Brunetti : New Oriental Nemocer a. 305 



fourteen joints with an apical style to the last one. The 4th 

 palpal joint is the longest and thinnest. 



At the tip of each vein, normalh", is a black hair-spot and 

 a small white scale-spot, the latter sometimes almost in the 

 marginal fringe. The costal fringe comprises some short sections 

 composed mainly of white or whitish hairs, including generally a 

 section of some length just beyond the middle ; whilst the wing- 

 tip is always clothed with white hairs for some distance, there 

 being also some few short patches of white hair in the fringe of 

 the posterior margin. 



An error has crept into the sentence (Rec. Ind. Mus., ii, 383) 

 about the 3rd vein, which should read : "the 3rd vein originates 

 in a right angle from the 2nd, just beyond where the latter forks ; 

 its basal portion very narrow, but quite distinct in wings denuded 

 of vestiture ; and there is a distinct appendix at the angle." 



The study of a good series in the Indian Museum makes it 

 clear that the black hair-patches on the wing are tolerably con- 

 stant , especially those at the fork of the upper branch of the 2nd 

 longitudinal vein, and at the fork of the 4th vein. The hairs at 

 the wing- tip are generally wholly white, always mainl}^ so. 



The wing as described under the specific name bella in my 

 previous paper on this family, may be regarded as the typical 

 form ; whilst the form described {loc. cit.) in the subsequent note 

 is not at all uncommon. 



The colour of the hair on the dorsum of the thorax varies 

 from greyish white to rather bright reddish brown, all interme- 

 diate shades being represented in different individuals. 



The tarsi are best described as variable; generally pale 

 yellowish at base, darkening to dark brown at the tips; with 

 long, irregularly placed bristly hairs, which are pale on the basal 

 half of the tarsi and dark brown on the apical half, being concolor- 

 ous with the ground colour of the limb. The rest of my descrip- 

 tion of the tarsi is correct, and may be supplemented by " the 

 distance covered by the white apical scales at the tips of the basal 

 joints of the tarsi, varies, especially on the 2nd tarsal joint, which 

 is in some examples all white, the colour in all cases being that of 

 the scales, as the ground colour of the whole tarsus is always black." 



The Indian Museum has this species from DarjiUng (7.000 ft.), 

 26-v-io [Bninetti]; ii-viii-09 [Dr. Jenkins]; 5 — 8-vm-og [Paiva]; 

 Kurseong, 25 — 27-vi-io [Annandale] ; Simla, 25-iv-07, ii-v-08, 

 9 — io-v-09 [Annandale]; Phagu (9,000 ft., Simla district), 

 II — 15-V-09 [Annandale]; Pallode (20 miles N. E. of Trivandrum, 

 South India), i5-xi-o8 [Annandale]. 



Pericoma metatarsalis, mihi, sp. nov, 



$ . Western Himalayas. Long, if- mm. 



This species differs from the bella form of margininotaia in 

 only two characters, but these arc practically consistent in the 

 three examples examined. 



