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Show 464 COL. c. SWINHOE ON THE [**' 248. ALAVONA INDECORELLA ? Alavona indecorella, Walker, xxviii. 515. June. . , Four male specimens, all more or less rubbed ; they are in size and appearance more like Walker's type of the above than of any other insect in this genus, but they cannot safely be determined as identical with this species. 249. ALAVONA MINOR, Walsingham, n. sp. (Plate XLI. figs. 10, 11, d 2-) Palpi dull ochreous, shaded with brownish beneath ; head ochreous ; antennae cinereous ; thorax brownish. Fore wings pale whitish fawn, shaded at the base of the costal margin with brownish, a series of brown spots around the apical and outer portions of the costal margins ; between these and the end of the cell, in brightly marked specimens, is a second series of similar spots parallel to the apical margin, but turning outward to the anal angle at their lower end; a brownish spot is situated at the upper angle of the cell, another on the outer third of the fold. The markings in this species appear to be frequently almost obsolete, but the marginal spots are nearly always distinguishable. Hind wings slightly paler than the fore wings ; abdomen tinged with brownish. Male, expanse 24 millim. The female has no markings, so far as can be judged from a single specimen in poor condition, but is much smaller than the female of Alavona cossusella, Walker. Female, expanse 26 millim. June and July, common. 250. TINEA SUBOCHRACEELLA, Walsingham, n. sp. (Plate XLI. fig. 9.) Head tufted, bright yellowish ochreous ; labial palpi ochreous, faintly tinged with greyish, short and drooping, not thickly clothed; maxillary palpi as long as the labials. Fore wings shining ochreous, faintly tinged at the base of the costa and about the fringes and apex of the wings with purplish grey. Hind wings greyish ochreous, with a slight coppery tinge; abdomen and legs pale ochreous. Expanse 13 millim. April. A single specimen, received from the Rev. J. H . Hocking, from Dharmsala, by Lord Walsingham, measures 15 millim. in the expanse of the fore wings. Two others of m y M h o w specimens Lord Walsingham savs are apparently not distinct from this species, although one of them is slightly larger in size (expanse 1/ millim.), and is almost entirely devoid of the greyish tinge of the fore wings. The insect has much the appearance of Myrmecocela ochraceella, Tgstr., but differs in the form of the labial palpi. |