198 EXOTIC MICROLIOPlDOPTJiKA. 



specks ; an oblique series of three black marks from base of costa 

 reaching half across wing ; small black spots on costa at | and 

 middle, whence oblioiue interrupted irregular grey lines cross wing, 

 first marked with blackish first discal stigma, second shortly curved 

 outwartls above middle and marked beneath this with two 

 transversely placed small black dots representing second discal 

 stigma, thickened on lower portion, running into subterminal lino 

 before dorsum ; a curved grey subterminal line from 4 of costa to 

 dorsum before tornus ; a fine terminal line of grey irroration, on 

 apical part of costa forming three or four cloudj- dark grey dots : 

 cilia white, basal third indistinctly barred grey irroration. Hind- 

 wings whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



New Guinea., betekwa lliver, 2-i300U feet ; one specimen. Very 

 like neoxanta, but certainly distinct by much shorter antennal 

 ciliations. 

 I Antaeotricha superciliosa, n. sp. 



S . 23 mm. Head whitish-fuscous, face white. Palpi white, 

 second joint with a short dark fuscous lateral mark at base. 

 Thorax pale fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa near base strongly, then slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, termcn rounded, rather oblique; all veins separate; 

 ochreous-whitish or pale whitish-ochreous, a broad dorsal baud of 

 irregular greyish or light fuscous suffusion occupying nearly half 

 wing ; costa narrowly palo ochreous ; an elongate patch of roughly 

 raised hairscales extending in disc from near base to near middle, 

 between this and costal streak several irregularly placed blackish- 

 grey dashes ; obscure streaks of fuscous and dark fuscous scales 

 between veins on posterior half of wing, terminating in dark fuscous 

 dots round apex and termeii : cilia ochreous-whitish (imperfect). 

 Hindwings whitish ; costal area expanded and fringed with rough 

 scales on basal half and with a patch of projecting scales at |, both 

 these areas sufi'used dark grey beneath, above with a long ochreous- 

 whitish subcostal hairpencil from base reaching to | ; cilia whitish. 



Fkench Guiana, R. Maroni ; two sjiecimens. Differs from all 

 others known to mo by the peculiar patch of rough scales in disc of 

 forewings. 

 A Antaeotricha annixa, n. sp. 



J :31 muj., 9 2^-27 mm. Head white, crown suffused 

 brownish. Palpi white, second joint J suffused pale brownish- 

 ochreous laterally, $ with dark fuscous short basal mark and 

 subapical ring, terminal joint in both sexes with broad fuscous 

 band, 5 darker. Thorax whity-brownish. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, widest at ^, costa 

 anteriorly c{ moderately, $ rather strongly arched, then nearly 

 straight, apex rounded, termeii obliquely rounded ; all veins 

 separate ; ochreous-white ; in d an irregular transverse light 

 brownish spot from costa before ^, with two black marks on its 

 anterior edge in disc, connected by a very oblique series of several 



