LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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spurs very long. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings hardly acute ; 
costa straight; exterior border moderately oblique ; third inferior 
vein rather more distant from the fourth than from the second. 
1. Alavona indecorella. 
Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; caput subcervino-cinereum ; alee anticee 
nigricante conspersce ; posticce fusco conspersce . 
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. Length of the body 
5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
a. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 
2. Alavona barbarella. 
Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi caput vix sup er antes ; abdomen 
alas posticas longe superans ; alee anticee f asciis duabus 
obliquis interruptis indeterminatis e squamis nigris ; posticce 
cinerece. 
Male . Cinereous fawn-colour. Palpi hardly extending beyond 
the head. Thorax and fore wings with many black scales. Abdo- 
men cinereous, extending much beyond the hind wings; apical 
tuft rather large, tinged with fawn-colour. Fore wings with two 
oblique 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 2 o crasso , So parvo acuto ; tibiee posticce pilosce ; alee 
anticee strigis transversis , plagis quinque costaque basi fuscis , 
fimbria fusco interlineata. 
Male. Cinereous, speckled with brown, very stout. Palpi 
brown beneath, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; second 
joint thick; third acute, minute. Legs stout; hind tibfce 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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