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transverse spot on the dorsum at 3 / 5 of the wing; a dark fuscous streak 
along the posterior fourth ol the costa, becoming narrow and light brown 
anteriorly, reaching below to vein 8, before its middle traversed by two 
golden-whitish transverse small bands. Hind wing dark fuscous, cilia pale 
yellowish-white. Otherwise similar to the male. 
Lower Mist Camp, 1900—1600 m, January 31, 1939 (neallotype, 
female), February 1, 1939. One male, one female. In both sexes the head 
is ochreous-whitish with the vertex fuscous, the abdomen tawny- whitish, 
suffused with ochreous anteriorly. Except these slight differences, the male 
specimen agrees in all details with the original description. 
Dorodoca Meyrick:, 1915 
Dorodoca Meyrick, 1915, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 324. Fletcher, Catal. Ind. 
Ins., vol. 16, p. 15, 1928. Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 70, 1929. 
Dorodoca melanostigma spec. nov. (fig. 616) 
/UE^at; = black, = a point 
$ 15 mm. Head pale ochreous-yellow. Antenna blackish-fuscous, white- 
ringed, scape pale ochreous-yellow. Palpus orange-whitish. Thorax pale 
brownish. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous tinged with pink, 
the basal half of the anterior and the median tibia, and tarsi except the 
apices of the segments, suffused above with blackish, posterior coxa with 
a black dot above (posterior legs missing). Fore wing narrowly lanceolate. 
Pale ochreous-pink; a narrow blackish- brown streak along the base of 
the costal edge; a streak of brownish suffusion along the basal fourth of 
the dorsum, attenuated towards the extremities, hardly reaching the 
base of the wing; an irregular spot of fine blackish irroration below the 
costa at x / 4 , an indication of another much smaller similar mark below 
the middle of the costa; longitudinal rather broad streaks of deeper 
brownish-pink suffusion: median, from about >/ 4 to the costa before the 
apex, and dorsal, from before the middle of the wing along the termen to 
before the apex ; a black dot in the extreme apex, extending as a narrow 
bar across the costal cilia; a tew minute black scales on the termen below 
the apex, ( ilia light ochreous-pink, along the termen and the dorsum pale 
ochreous-fuseous. Hind wing ochreous-wbite, glossy. Cilia rather dark 
fuscous along the costa, around the apex and along the posterior half of 
the termen, elsewhere yellowish- whitish. 
Anapophyses, and especially postapophyses, long. Ostium, a transverse 
asymmetrical body, orifice with a plicate rim. Bursa copulatrix erect- 
o\ oid. Signa, a series of weak irregular and inequal sclerotized fragments. 
(Slide no. 1070 D, type.) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One specimen. 
