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black scaled ; a small apical spot on the third and a long black 

 one basally, with a small white area near the base of the vein ; 

 one large basal and one small apical black spot on the upper 

 branch of the second fork-cell, two small ones on the lower, stem 

 mainly black on each side of the cross-veins, basal area white ; 

 the fifth has three black spots on the upper branch, two near 

 the fork, one near the apex of the lower and one near its base ; 

 the sixth has three spots, the middle one the smallest ; the fringe 

 with a pale spot at the end of all the veins. 



Length. — 4 • 5 mm. 



£ . With the two apical palpal segments much swollen, 

 white ventrally except for a small black spot ; there is a narrow 

 white ring on the long segment. Antennae brown, with flaxen 

 brown hairs. 



Length. — 4*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Dehra Dhoon, India. 



Time of capture. — February to March. 



Observations. — Described from three <j? 's and one $ . It 

 differs from the other Indian Cellia, viz. C. pulcherrima in its 

 darker colour, absence of lateral abdominal scale tufts and in 

 the leg and wing ornamentation. 



There is no variation seen in the three ? 's. 



Neocellia dudgeonii. n. sp. 



Thorax slaty grey, brown at the sides, with silvery grey 

 scales. Abdomen brown with creamy grey scales. Palpi deep 

 brown with two broad and one narrow white band. Legs brown 

 with all the femora, tibiae and first tarsals much spotted with 

 white, the fore and mid tarsals with narrow apical yellow bands, 

 the hind with broad apical and basal white ones, last hind tarsal 

 all white. Wings mostly creamy-white scaled, costa with four 

 prominent black spots and smaller basal ones, the middle the 

 largest, with three spots beneath it. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with white upright forked 

 scales in the middle, dark ones at the sides, and with some white 

 narrow-curved ones in front, and two curved tufts of long, white, 

 hair-like scales ; antennae brown, the basal segment bright deep 

 testaceous, the next few segments with small flat white scales ; 

 palpi thin, as long as the proboscis, deep brown with two broad 

 white bands, one apical, the second close to it, and another 

 narrow white band lower down, beneath this the deep brown 



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