BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 555 



Enchoptila idiopis, n.sp. 

 ISioyirts, peculiar, distinct. 



cf . 14-15 mm. Head brownish; face and palpi brown- 

 whitish. Antennse whitish, sharply annulated, except near 

 base, with dark fuscous. Thorax brown, apices of patagia 

 white. Abdomen brown-whitish. Legs brown- whitish. Fore 

 wings narrow-elongate, costa slightly arched near base, thence 

 nearly straight to 4, where it is obtusely angled, thence 

 straight to apex, apex acute, termen straight, extremely 

 oblique ; brown ; a broad white line from mid-dorsum oblique- 

 ly outwards, curved in middle of disc, and returning to tor- 

 nus ; apical J of costa and termen narrowly white ; a black 

 apical spot sending inwards a very short longitudinal streak; 

 cilia brownish with a brown basal line, at apex fuscous. Hind- 

 wings with termen strongly sinuate beneath apex ; whitish, 

 towards apex and termen suffused with grey ; cilia whitish. 



Three specimens. 



Subfam. CEcophorin.e. 



Gen. Dasycerca, nov. 

 SaxrvKepKos, hairy-tailed. 



Head smooth, sidetufls small, loosely appressed. Palpi 

 rather short, second joint not reaching base of antennse, 

 smooth-scaled, terminal joint shorter, slender, recurved. 

 Antennae in cT moderately ciliated(l), basal pecten developed. 

 Thorax smooth. Abdomen in cT with large dense tufts of 

 hair from lateral aspects of fifth segment, and from dorsal 

 aspect of succeeding segments, apical tuft well developed. 

 Forewings elongate, termen very oblique; vein 7 to termen. 

 Hindwings lanceolate. 



A development of Machctretis, distinguished by the abdo- 

 minal tufts of cf . 



Dasycerca apocrypha, n.sp, 



aTTOKpvcfios, hidden, obscure. 

 0*9- 11-13 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous with a few fuscous scales. Antennae fuscous. 



