284r EXOTIC MICnOLEl'IDOPTIORA. 



metallic dash on tcrmen towards apox : cilia dark grej', a wliite 

 costal spot on posterior margin of band (apical cilia injured). 

 Hiiulwiiigs and cilia dark grey. 



Assam, Cherrapunji (Fletcher); one specimen. 



Cosmopteryx plesiasta, n. sp. 



r? . 6 mm. Head, thorax bronzy-blackish, three very fine white 

 lilies above, face whitish-bronzy. Paljii white lined blackish. 

 Antennae black lined white, apical joint black, then three white, 

 three black, one white, one black, one white. Abdomen orange, 

 SHgQieiital margins fuscous, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 narrow-hinceolate, apex long-caudate; bronzy-blackish; a fine 

 wliite very obliciue line from beneath base of costa to |, nearly 

 approacliiiig median, a rather short, median line not nearly reacliing 

 base and scarcely passing subcostal, and a moderate subdorsal line 

 not nearly reaching base or band ; costal edge white for a short 

 distance before band; a broad light ochreous-yellow poatmedian 

 baud, slightly narrowed dorsally, edged by narrow silvery-metallic 

 fascite, first entire, followed by two or three black scales above 

 middle, second preceded by a few scattered black scales and 

 narrowly cut in middle by pale yellow, whence a white sinuate line 

 runs along termen to apex: cilia dark bronzy-grey, a white spot 

 on costal extremity of second fascia, and white bar at apex. Hind- 

 wings and cilia dark bronzy-grey. 



Kanaka., Castle Rock, June (Maxwell) ; one specimen. Near 

 manijmlaris ; the black apical joint of antenna is a notable dis- 

 tinction. 



Placoptila artionoma, n. sp. 



S • 7 mm. Head dark fuscous, face whitish. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, lined white. Antenna dark grey. Thorax dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate-lanceo- 

 late ; dark fuscous; a slender silvery-whitish transverse fascia just 

 before middle, and two pairs of opposite spots at 1 and | of distance 

 between this and apex: cilia dark grey, towards tips whitish, a 

 white apical spot on tips. Hindwings and cilia dark grey ; a long 

 grey-whitish hairpencil from base of costa lying beneath forewings. 



jN'ew Gtjinka, Tenimber Is., July; one specimen. P. electrica ia 

 larger, with the spots rather differently placed, and without the 

 hairpencil of hindwings. 



Stagmatophora autolioma, n. sp. 



d' 2 • 10-11 ram. Head white, crown bronzy-fuscous except on 

 sides. Palpi white, second joint with basal half and tip blackish, 

 terminal joint with black lateral lines. Antennae dark fuscous, 

 apical third white. Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, white sub- 

 dorsal stripes. Abdomen dark grey, two or three basal seg- 

 ments suifused pale ochreous subdorsallj'', anal tuft whitish. 

 Forewings lancoohite, apex produced, acute; deep shining bronze, 

 irregularly and variably suffused l)la(;kisli on margins of markings; 

 markings shining white ; a very fine line along fold from base to J, 



