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ochreous ; thorax and abdomen yellow. Fore wing with the basal 

 half bright yellow ; the costa rufous, irrorated with white ; the 

 outer half of wing chestnut, becoming purplish fuscous towards 

 the margin ; the costal area broadly suffused with white ; slight 

 postmedial white streaks on veins 3 and 4 ; a minutely waved 

 submarginal white line, and some white irroration just inside the 

 margin. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hab. Bhutan ; Nagas ; Borneo ; New Guinea. Eocp. 18 millim. 



B. (Dioryctria). Antennw of male with a small tuft of scales 

 on shaft near base. 



4387. Phycita abietella, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 138. 

 Tinea decuriella, Hiibn. SammL eur. Schmett. fig. 74. 

 Tinea sylvestrella, Ratz. Fortz. i, p. 244, pi. 15, fig. 1. 

 Pinipestis abietivorella, Grote, Butt. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 701. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen, grey and fuscous. Fore wing grey, 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; a dark brown patch on 

 base of inner area ; a dark antemedial line with a grey band on its 

 inner edge, angled outwards below costa and inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; a large brown patch inside the grey band, less 

 prominent towards costa ; a prominent quadrate discocellular grey 

 spot with a brown patch below it ; a grey-edged dark postmedial 

 line angled inwards at vein 6, then bent outwards and minutely 

 dentate, some brown suffusion beyond the line ; a prominent 

 marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing semihyaline with a 

 brown tinge ; the cilia white, with a brown line at base. 



The prominence of the grey and fuscous markings of fore wing 

 varies considerably. 



Hab. United States ; Europe ; Japan ; Simla. Eocp. 22-34 

 millim. 



4388. Phycita dentilinella, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing brown irrorated with 

 grey ; the last with oblique highly dentate white antemedial line ; a 

 dark discocellular lunule : a minutely dentate dark postmedial line 

 slightly bent outwards at vein 5 and denned by grey on the outer 

 side ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing pale brownish 

 and semihyaline ; the veins and apical area browner ; cilia grey, 

 with a brown line through them. 



Hab. Manipur (Doherty). Exp. 32 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



4389. Phycita cyclogramma, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey irrorated with red-brown 

 and fuscous. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; a red-brown 

 fascia on base of inner margin ; a large pale red antemedial patch 

 on inner area, surrounded with white and with a semicircular tuft 

 of raised black scales on its inner side ; an obliquely curved ante- 

 medial dark line ; the outer half of costal area suffused with pink - f 



