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Show 338 ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. [June 5, This genus was wrongly assigned by Guenee a place amongst the Noctuae. The larva spins a cocoon between leaves, somewhat flattened, and of glutinous silk, from the end of which the empty pupa-case remains sticking out after the emergence of the imago. Superficially the species have a certain amount of resemblance to the Tortrix, Carpocapsa pomonella, but the absence of the fork at the base of the submedian nervure of the fore wing prevents its admission among the Tortricina. Its more appropriate place would seem to be near the beginning of the Tineina, in the neighbourhood of the genus Atychia and its allies. Family TINEID^E. 201. HAPSIFERA SECLUSELLA. (No. 67.) Cimitra seclusella, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxix. p. 780. One male, Campbellpore, June 12, 1886. Walker's type in the Brit. Mus. collection is a female, and therefore considerably larger than the present specimen. 202. ALAVONA BARBARELLA. (NO. 81.) Alavona barbarella, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxviii. p. 575. One male, July 5, 1886, Campbellpore. Family PLUTELLID.E. 203. A Z I N I S ASSAMENSIS. Hyponomeuta assamensis, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 6. One male from Kala Pani, April 28, 1887. Mr. Butler's type is from Cachar. 204. HYPONOMEUTA MILLEPUNCTATELLUS, sp. n. (No. 105.) Fore wing bluish white, with five complete rows of very small, black dots, and several intermediate incomplete rows ; costa narrowly black at the base; head, thorax, and abdomen like the fore wings; thorax with six or eight black dots. Hind wings dark grey, rather transparent; fringes paler grey. Expanse of wiugs 22 millim. Two females, August 9, 1886, Kala Pani. Akin to //. padi, but easily distinguished by the intermediate half rows of dots. 205. ADELA LATIFASCIELLA, sp. n. (No. 130.) One male, August 24, 1886, Thundiani, much worn. The fore wings violaceous purple towards the apex, apparently paler towards the base, with a broad oblique yellowish-white fascia beyond the middle. Family CRYPTOLECHIID-E. 206. G E L E C H I A , sp. One male, September 26, 1886, Berham Gully. Fore wiugs pointed; base of the costa and two blotches, one before, |