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Rh The costa of the wing is densely black scaled, with four white more or less prominent spots, and often two smaller ones, the first long vein with either five or six white spots ; veins mostly dark scaled, and the fringe has a pale spot where each vein joins the border.

Length, 3'5 to 4'2 mm.

Localities. Madras ; Quilon ; Punjaub ; Calcutta ; Behar ; Bengal ; Dacca ; Mukerian ; Hosiarpur ; Sambalpur (C.P.) ; Ellichpur.

Observations. Very closely related to A. argi/rotarsis, Desv., which Lieutenant-Colonel Giles informs me also occurs in India. A light variety, described as var. pallida ('Mono. Culic.,' 1, 134), occurs in Madras. Captain Liston has described this insect as a new species, A. Jamesii ; had this insect been new, the name could not stand, as I had previously employed it for the following species.

Thorax brown, with ashy-grey and creamy-curved scales. Abdo- men dark brown, with golden hairs and golden-brown scales on the last few segments. Palpi black, with snow-white rings, and white apical joint. Legs brown ; fore femora and tibiae more or less spotted ; fore metatarsus apically banded and also with an indistinct median bawl, first and second tarsi apically banded, and in the mid legs the meta- tarsus and first two tarsi apically banded ; hind legs with femora and tibiae with an apical white spot, last three tarsi white, and also the apex of the first. Costa with four large and two small dark spots.

Length. 3 to 3'5 mm.

Habitat. Quilon, Travancore ; Ceylon ; Deccan.

Observations. A small species, easily told from the other Indian species of this group by the faint mid banding of the fore metatarsi and the more or less speckled femora and tibiae. Closely related to .-/. fuli- ginosus, but may be easily told from it by the above characters.

It is much smaller than the former species. I have only seen it from the south of India and Deccan.

The male at present is unknown.

Thorax sooty-black, with broad lines of white scales, two median and two lateral. Abdomen sooty, nude, with brownish hairs. Palpi black, with white apical joint and three small white rings. Legs brindled with white scales and a large sub-apical white patch on the femora; tibiae and first tarsal joints white ringed, especially on the mid legs, last two hind tarsi all white. Wings jet black, with the costa