464 col. c. swinhoe on the [nov. 16, 



248. Alavona indecorella ? 



Alavona indecorella, Walker, xxviii. 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, c?$.) 



Palpi dull ochreous, shaded with brownish beneath ; head 

 ochreous ; antennae 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 from a single 

 specimen in poor condition, but is much smaller than the female of 

 Alavona cossuseUa, 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 wiugs 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. 



