464 COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE [Nov. 16, 
248. ALAVONA INDECORELLA ? 
Alavona indecorella, Walker, xxvili. 515. 
June. 
Four male specimens, all more or less rubbed ; they are in size and 
appearance more like Walker’s type of the above than of any other 
insect in this genus, but they cannot safely be determined as iden- 
tical with this species. 
249. ALAVONA MINOR, Walsingham, n. sp. (Plate XLI. figs. 
10, 11, 3 2.) 
Palpi dull ochreous, shaded with brownish beneath ; head 
ochreous ; antennez cinereous; thorax brownish. Fore wings pale 
whitish fawn, shaded at the base of the costal margin with brownish, 
a series of brown spots around the apical and outer portions of the 
costal margins; between these and the end of the cell, in brightly 
marked specimens, is a second series of similar spots parallel to the 
apical margin, but turning outward to the anal angle at their lower 
end; a brownish spot is situated at the upper angle of the cell, 
another on the outer third of the fold. The markings in this species 
appear to be frequently almost obsolete, but the marginal spots are 
nearly always distinguishable. Hind wings slightly paler than the 
fore wings; abdomen tinged with brownish. Male, expanse 24 
millim. 
The female has no markings, so far as can be judged froma single 
specimen in poor condition, but is much smaller than the female of 
Alavona cossusella, Walker. Female, expanse 26 millim. 
June and July, common. 
250. TINEA SUBOCHRACEELLA, Walsingham, n.sp. (Plate XLI. 
fig. 9.) 
Head tufted, bright yellowish ochreous ; labial palpi ochreous, 
faintly tinged with greyish, short and drooping, not thickly clothed ; 
maxillary palpi as long as the labials. Fore wings shining ochreous, 
faintly tinged at the base of the costa and about the fringes and 
apex of the wings with purplish grey. Hind wings greyish ochreous, 
with a slight coppery tinge ; abdomen and legs pale ochreous. 
Expanse 13 millim. 
April. 
A single specimen, received from the Rev. J. H. Hocking, from 
Dharmsala, by Lord Walsingham, measures 15 millim. in the 
expanse of the fore wings. 
Two others of my Mhow specimens Lord Walsingham says are 
apparently not distinct from this species, although one of them 
is slightly larger in size (expanse 17 millim.), and is almost entirely 
devoid of the greyish tinge of the fore wings. 
The insect has much the appearance of Myrmecocela ochraceella, 
Tgstr., but differs in the form of the labial palpi. 
