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termen obliquely rounded ; whitish-grey sprinkled blackish, in 3 
more strongly irrorated blackish, especially posteriorly, in one 
3 apical area suffused dark grey ; a blackish dot on base of costa ; 
edge of basal patch represented by a raised transverse streak near 
base inwards-oblique from costa, more ochreous in $., edged whitish 
posteriorly ; six small blackish spots on costa from | to near apex ; 
four ochreous-grey tufts in an irregular supramedian series from 
3 to |, fourth largest and enclosed by upper end of a C-shaped whitish 
streak on end of cell open anteriorly ; other greyish tufts beneath 
fold at -i-, and below middle of disc ; in $ median third of dorsal 
area tinged ochreous or brownish; an excurved grey shade from 
fourth costal spot to tornus ; a terminal series of blackish dots 
sometimes perceptible: cilia whitish-grey, 3 greyer, or suffused 
dark grey round apex. Hindwings whitish, base tinged grey, 
especially on veins ; a suffused grey apical patch occupying nearly 
^ of wing ; cilia pale grey, tips whitish. 
Kashmir, Grulmarg, 8800 feet, June (T . B. Fletcher ). Mr. 
Fletcher writes “ Just below the hut in which I was staying, there 
was an old tree of Abies pindra, the trunk of which was hollow and 
open on the north side; fires had been lighted inside the tree, 
and the interior of the hollow portion was burnt and blackened ; 
these four moths were all taken sitting on this burnt wood (at 
different dates from June 14th to 28th).” This and the preceding 
species not only have the structural character of Bondia (only 
known hitherto from Australia and North America), but also the 
characteristic C-shaped white discal mark which is a striking feature 
in the typical Australian species, B. nigella, and not found in any 
other Carposinid. I have taken many Australian and New Zealand 
Carposinids in nature, but never on tree-trunks except the small 
black Australian species of Bondia , which are found sometimes 
commonly on the trunks of u stringy-bark ” Eucalyptus blackened 
by bush-fires. The larvae of Carposma and Meridarchis habitually, 
perhaps always, feed in berries, but it seems not unlikely that 
those of Bondia may be bark-feeders ; in any case the association 
of the present species with a similarly burnt tree-trunk is very 
singular and interesting, and the discovery of two species in this 
same locality is equally remarkable. 
Carposina engalactis, n. sp. 
$.18-19 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, 
second joint infuscated beneath and wholly dark fuscous towards 
base, terminal joint fuscous. Thorax light greyish-ochreous, apex 
of tegulee and sometimes shoulders ochreous-whitish. Forewings 
elongate, somewhat dilated, costa slightly arched, termen slightly 
rounded, oblique ; ochreous-whitish, more or less generally suffused 
light brownish; basal fifth of costa brownish, and six brownish 
costal spots suffused blackish on costa between g and apex; some 
irregular black irroration in disc indicating edge of basal patch 
parallel to termen at |; a suboblong brown blotch on end of cell; 
