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EXOTIC MICROLEriDOPTKIiA. 



Hemimene praecisa, ii. sp. 



<S 2 • «>-10 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Palpi 3, dark fuscous, with light ochreoiis-yellowish median si)ot, 

 beyond this suffused with dark blue. Forewings elongalo- 

 triangular, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, tcrmen 

 faintly sinuate beneath apex, then bowed, rather oblique; dark 

 fuscous, finely irrorated with whitish specks, towards dorsum indi- 

 cating faint stria) ; oblique rather long blue-leaden strigse from 

 costa at middle and .|, a short mark between these, and anotlier 

 beyond them, all marked with white on costa, second striga 

 running to subapical sinuation ; a white wedgeshaped mark from 

 costa just before apex; a transverse patcli of indistinct violet- 

 leaden marbling from tornus reaching more than lialf across wing, 

 with three short blackish dashes in an oblique line above it, and 

 three or four blackish dots between it and termen : cilia violet- 

 blue-leaden. Hindwiugs dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia 

 light bluish-grey, with darker basal line. 



IJRrnsn Guiana, Eartica, in January [Parish). The cJ example 

 has lost abdomen and hindwings ; the latter may probably have a 

 dorsal blotch beneath as in the allied species. 



Hemimene ferrata, n. sp. 



2 . 9-] mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Palpi 2^, ochreous-whitish, towards aj)ex suffused with dark grej'- 

 blue. Porewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen bowed, somewhat oblique; dark purple-fuscous; 

 ■ four indistinct pairs of whitish strigulae from anterior half of costa 

 and four single strigulaj from posterior half, second and fourth 

 pairs giving rise to very oblique violet-blue-leaden strigte, latter of 

 these connected with a tornal patch of indistinct violet-leaden 

 suffusion ; a postmedian dorsal patch of five very indistinct whitish 

 strigte reaching nearly half across wing; tliree black dots just 

 before lower part of termen : cilia violet-fuscous, Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia violet-grey, with dark fuscous basal line. 



Pkitisii Guiana, Eartica, in Pebruary {Parish) ; two specimeusc 



Hemimene militaris, n. sp. 



<3 . 9 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 1|, 

 grey, towards apex dark blue-grey. Porewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen bowed, 

 little oblique ; dark fuscous ; costa marked with small groups of 

 two or three very line wliitish strigulae each ; two subconfluent 

 curved transverse leaden streaks betore middle ; a thick strongly 

 curved leaden streak from beyond middle of costa to | of dorsum ; 

 two leaden marks terminating strigulie towards apex, a dot above 

 apex and another below it, a spot near termen below middle and 



