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genital appendage appears bare, conical, horny, upright. Legs 

 covered with brownish scales which, in certain lights, show a 

 greyish white sheen. The tibiae have rather long hairs of irre- 

 gular length, and a circlet of strong bristles of different lengths at 

 the tip : the apical half of the metatarsus has some white scales. 

 Wings : the 2nd longitudinal vein divides almost directly after its 

 divergence from the 3rd, and the prong forks at a quarter the 

 length of the wing ; the 1st longitudinal vein ends at the centre 

 of the costa ; the 3rd ends at the extreme, slightly blunted, tip of 

 the wing ; the 4th divides from apparently a common stem just 

 below the divergence of the 2nd and 3rd, the 4th forking a little 

 beyond the fork of the upper prong of the 2nd : the 7th i* curved 

 downward at the tip. The wings have a small spot of snow- 

 white scale-like bristles at the tips of all the veins (not always very 

 distinct), and two rather larger, similar spots on the costa. one 

 before the tip of the 1st longitudinal vein and the other before the 

 uppermost branch of the 2nd longitudinal vein. The underside 

 of the wing in certain lights shows a bright iridescence, due to 

 numerous, scattered, small scales of variegated colours. 



In all remaining points as in P. squamijxnKis, but a very distinct 

 species. 



Length nearly 1 millini. 



Described from one female in the Indian Museum collection r 

 taken in Calcutta, 27. viii. 07. 



184. Parabranettia 9-notata, B,-un. 



Parabrwifttia 9-notata, Bmnetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 313 (1911 I. 



$ . Body covered with rich dark brown bristly hairs on thorax, 

 blackish brown on abdomen, with a few white hairs at the tip of 

 the latter. Head: antennal scape with dark elongate scales; 

 flagellum with pear-shaped joints and brown verticillate hairs, 

 which appear greyish when viewed in certain directions. Distinct 

 long, curved chaeta? present. Legs blackish ; femora with a con- 

 siderable number of greyish, elongate, depressed scales ; tibiae and 

 metatarsi with whitish-grey scales at tips ; a few scales of a similar 

 nature are also present at the tips of the tarsi. TTiH<7* with the 

 whole surface as well as the veins covered with blackish hairs. 

 which are much thicker and denser on the costa. where they are 

 prominent and distinctly black ; around the remainder of the border 

 of the wing they are dark brown. A very conspicuous spot (on 

 the extreme edge of the wing- border) at the tip of every vein, 

 composed of small white scale-like hairs ; a number of white erect 

 hairs on most of the veins in the basal half of the wing. Anterior 

 branch of 2nd longitudinal vein forks opposite the fork of the 4th 

 vein. The pubescence prevents a clear view of the base of the 

 wings, but apparently the 2nd longitudinal vein forks beyond the 

 base of the 3rd vein. 



Length 1^ millim. 



Described from one female from Puri, Orissa, east coast of 



