3o8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi.. IV, 



disc of the wing, on the fork of the anterior branch of the 2nd 

 vein, and on the fork of the 4th vein, are well marked. 



Pericoma gilvipes mihi. 



This form also, is certainly a good species, distinct from 

 margininotata, as a questionable variety of which I first described 

 it. The distinguishing character is the absence of white hairs at 

 the wing- tip and of wdiite hair-spots on the margin of the wing, 

 also of isolated small patches of erect white hairs on the veins. 

 Another good character is the distad forking of the 2nd longi- 

 tudinal vein in reference to the origin of the 3rd vein, instead of 

 the proximad forking as in margininotata. From its nearest ally, 

 lacteitarsis, it is knowai by the nearly wholly black metatarsi, and 

 by the distad instead of proximad forking of the 2nd vein, in 

 relation to the origin of the 3rd vein. The anterior branch of the 

 2nd vein forks a little before the middle of the wing and a little 

 distad of the fork of the 4th vein. 



Additional specimens in the Indian Museum afford the 

 following data : — Calcutta, 9-ii-io, 17 — i8-vii-07, 28-vii-o8, 8 — 

 23-viii-o8, I — 26-ix-o8 [all Annandale, some taken "at light"]; 

 Madhupur, Bengal, 17-x-og " at light" [Paiva] ; Ernakulam, Cochin, 

 Malabar Coast, 4-xi-o8 [Annandale^^ ; Quilon, Travancore, g-xi-08 

 [Annandale']. 



Pericoma proxima, mihi, sp. nov. 



? cf . Ceylon. lyong. i^ mm. 



Body with dark brown hairs, intermixed with gre^^ hairs here 

 and there ; bushy white hair on head above, and black hair below 

 also on palpi. Abdomen with black hairs. Antennae with black 

 scales on scape ; flagellum like Psychoda bengalensis , the verticillate 

 hairs widely spread out, the hairs whitish. 



Legs dark, with blackish scales, black bristles and paler stiff 

 hairs ; fore metatarsi with apical third bearing white scales, 

 posterior metatarsi with white scales at tips only. 



Wings with hairs only on the veins, rich, moderately dark 

 chestnut-brown. Very distinct and moderately large black hair- 

 spots at tips of veins, where there are also some small white scaly 

 hair-spots. Isolated groups of a few white scaly hairs placed 

 apparently irregularl}^ on the veins. 



A distinct arc of white scaly hairs on the wing-fringe between 

 the lower branch of the 4th longitudinal vein, and the 5th vein, 

 but the wing-tip itself has distincth' rich brown hairs and no trace 

 of white hairs. The wing-fringe brownish grey. 



A distinct spot of black bristly erect hairs at the fork of the 

 anterior branch of the 2nd longitudinal vein, and another at the 

 fork of the 4th vein, both spots with a few white hairs l^eyond 

 them. 



Anterior branch of 2nd vein forking approximately opposite 

 the fork of the 4th vein, distinctly but not greatly before the 



