Genus Neocellia, 111 



as in M. rossii and the larvae have the median pair of frontal 

 hairs simple, the outer pair branched. The palmate hairs are 

 present from the second to the seventh abdominal segments, and 

 the terminal filaments of the leaflets are long. 



Habits of larvae and adults. — The larvae occur in overflow 

 pools of irrigation watercourses, and the adults have been taken 

 in small numbers in the barracks of native troops and in the 

 outhouses of native bazaars, and during winter a few were found 

 in a native village near Lahore. 



Genus NEOCELLIA. nov. gen. 



Head with upright forked scales only; palpi of J as long 

 as the proboscis, not very densely scaled. 



Thorax with flat scales, somewhat spindle-shaped, on both 

 mesonotum and scutellum. 



Abdomen with similar scales to the thorax more or less 

 densely scattered all over it ; no trace of lateral scale tufts. 



Wings with moderately large scales, ending bluntly and 

 rather short. Male palpi with the two last segments, much 

 -swollen. 



Allied to Cellia, but at once told from that genus by the 

 .absence of lateral scale-tufts on the abdomen, the less scaled 

 palpi in the $ and the smaller wing scales. 



The three species tabulate as below : — 



Last hind tarsal white. 



Palpi black at apex indica. n. sp. 



Palpi white at apex dudge"onii. n. sp. 



Last hind tarsal not white intermedia. Roth well . 



Neocellia indica. nov. sp. 



Thorax slaty grey in the middle with pale creamy white 

 scales, dark at the sides; palpi dark brown, with two broad 

 white bands and a narrow yellow one towards the base, black at 

 the apex. Abdomen deep brown, with dense creamy scales. 

 Legs brown ; all the tibiae, femora and first tarsals with white 

 spots, other tarsals with apical and basal white bands, last hind 

 tarsal white. Wings with six black costal spots, the second and 

 fourth large but not so long as the third, basal ones small; 

 most of veins pale scaled, a few black spots. 



