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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
NEPTICULIDiE. 
Nepticula aeriventris, n sp. 
c?. 4 mm. Head orange, eyecaps and collar grey-whitish. 
Forewings wholly clothed rather coarse light purple-grey blackish- 
tipped scales : cilia grey with whitish reflections, speckled dark grey 
towards base. Hindwings very narrow-lanceolate, light grey ; 
cilia light grey. Abdomen beneath brassy-metallic. Hind tibiae 
with row of erect bristles. 
Bombay, Maliablesh war, bred May from larva mining leaf of 
Allophylus Cobbe (Sctpindacece ); larva green, mine a zigzag gallery 
under upper cuticle of leaf between two veins or at edge of leaf, 
excrement forming a dark line in centre of gallery ; larva leaves 
gallery to pupate and wanders actively, in captivity only one 
succeeded in forming a very small white cocoon amongst fine debris 
in bottle ; many larvae were taken, but did not seem to find what 
they sought to help with pupation (Airs. M. L. Alaxwell). The 
unusually narrow hindwing suggests possible modification of neura- 
tion, which however I cannot discern clearly on the unique 
specimen. 
CARPOSINI DiE. 
Bondia characterias, n. sp. 
B . 17 mm. Head, thorax dark grey slightly sprinkled whitish, 
lower part of face whitish. Palpi blackish. Antennal ciliations 4. 
Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 
obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; whitish-grey irrorated dark 
grey; a small dark fuscous basal patch edged black, sprinkled 
ochreous in middle, edge raised, inwards-oblique from costa and 
margined white, followed by whitish suffusion extended along costa 
to near apex ; a small raised blackish spot on costa at and three 
blackish dots in a transverse series in disc beneath this ; an elongate 
blackish mark on costa about middle, and some irregular blackish- 
grey suffusion in middle of disc connected with this, beyond this in 
disc a whitish streak forming three sides of a rectangle open 
anteriorly, and edged blackish above ; four small blackish spots on 
posterior part of costa, from beneath third of these a rather 
excurved transverse series of raised cloudy blackish dots continued 
by a shade to tornus : cilia grey slightly darker-speckled. Hind- 
wings uniform light bluish-grey ; cilia pale grey. 
Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8800 feet, July (T. B. Fletcher). Certainly 
distinct from the following. 
Bondia autocharacta, n. sp. 
d 19-20 mm., 5 25 mm. Head, thorax grey mixed whitish. 
Palpi grey, tips of joints whitish. Antennal ciliations 4. Forewings 
elongate, somewhat dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, 
