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spurs very long. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings hardly acute ; 

 costa straight; exterior horder moderately oblique ; third inferior 

 vein rather more distant from the fourth than from the second. 



1. Alavona indecorella. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; caput subeervino-cinereum ; alee antica. 

 nigricante consjiersce ; posticce fusco conspcrsa?. 



Male. Cinereous-brown, more cinereous beneath. Head and 

 apical tuft of the abdomen cinereous, with a slight tinge of fawn- 

 colour. Fore wings very minutely blackish-speckled. Hind wings 

 more cinereous, very minutely brown-speckled. Leugth of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walbouse, Esq. 



2. Alavona barbaeella. 



Mas. Cinereo'Cervina; palpi caput vix sup er antes ; abdomen 

 alas posticas longe superans ; ala> antica fasciis duabus 

 obliquis interruptis indeterminatis e squamis nigris ; postica 

 cinerece. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Palpi hardly extending beyond 

 ithe head. Thorax and fore wings with many black scales. Abdo- 

 jttien cinereous, extending much beyond the hind wings; apical 

 tuft rather large, tinged with fawn-colour. Fore wings with two 

 Joblique very incomplete and much interrupted bands formed by the 

 speckles. Hind wings cinereous; fringe very long towards the 

 interior angle. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Hindostan. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



3. Alavona cossusella. 



Mas. Cinerea^ crassa, fusco conspersa ; palpi subtus fusci, 

 articulo 2o crasso. So parvo acuto ; tibice posticus pilosa ; ala; 

 anticce strlgis transversis, plagis quinque costaque basi fuscis 1 

 fimbria fusco interlineata. 



Male. Cinereous, speckled with brown, very stout. Palpi 

 thrown beneath, much snorter than the breadth of the head ; second 

 joint thick; third acute, minute. Legs stout; hind tibiae pilose. 

 ;Fore wings rounded at the tips, transversely streaked with dark 

 • brown; four connected and very irregular brown patches in the 

 exterior disk, and a fifth contiguous to the base of the interior 



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