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the sectors, the gradate veins and some near the margins brown ; 

 one front wing with six sectors has the venation of M. calidus ; 

 the other wing has an abnormal reticulation. The yellow pro- 

 thorax has a brown line on each side. I would have referred it to 

 M. calidus, but the legs have no black rings and on the wings the 

 much variegated pattern of M. calidus is also wanting. The male 

 is smaller, body brown, antennae annulated with brown ; wings 

 pale with five sectors and seven gradate veins in the external 

 series ; abdomen dark brown, genital appendages not to be seen ; 

 legs without black rings. All tarsi have a large, thin orbicular 

 plantula, exceeding the claws on both sides. 



12. Micromus australis. 



Micromus australis Hag., Wien, Z. B. Ges. vin, 483, no. 76. 



Long. c. al. 7 mm. ; exp. al. 12^- to 15 mm. 



Pale luteous, luteo-pilose ; head, palpi, antennae, pale luteouis ; 

 occiput transversely elevated ; prothorax nearly smooth, on each 

 side a large brownish ill-defined spot ; legs pale. Front wings 

 less than half as broad as long, hyaline with a yellowish tinge, 

 margins and veins luteo-pilose ; veins luteous except the gradate and 

 the veins connected with them, which are dark brown ; four sectors, 

 nine gradate in the external series, five in the internal ; the series 

 not strictly parallel ; hind wings similar in shape and color ; ex- 

 ternal gradate eight ; internal five, both brown. Abdomen luteous, 

 very pilose ; last segment of male paler ; lower valve long, narrow ; 

 rounded tip a little larger with numerous very long, spine-like hairs ; 

 the valve split above ; at the base of the valve the two lower ap- 

 pendages are flat, erected, at tip lancet-shaped, recurved, sharply 

 pointed, serrated on both margins ; superior valves separated, 

 ovoid, convex, on the lower margin with a short strong hook and 

 some short pyramidal spines ; apex of the female truncated. 



Hab. Ceylon, Rainboclde, by Nietner. Eight males and females 

 before me. 



13. Micromus linearis. 



Micromus linearis Hag. Wien, Z. B. Ges. viii, 483, no. 75. 



Long. c. al. 8 mm. ; exp. al. 14 mm. 



Elongate, luteous, occiput, tuberculate; antennae luteous ; palpi 

 and legs pale ; prothorax anteriorly with two impressions ; wings 

 long, narrow, about four times as long as broad, narrowed at base, 



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