42G EXOTIC MICUOLEPIDOrTERA. 



lateral streak on second joint becoming obsolete towarcs apox, 

 terminal joint lined blackisb. Abdomen grey, ovipositor rather 

 long. Fore wings rather narrow, costa slightly archec', apex 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; pale yellow-ochnous ; a 

 narrow dark fuscous streak along costa from base, becoming sivthised 

 towards apex and continued round termen to neiir tornus ; plical 

 and second diseal stigmata dark fuscous : cilia grey, becoming pale 

 ochrcous towards tornus. Hindwings and cilia grey. 

 Fiji, Lautoka, June ( Veltch) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 



Phthorimsea frequens, n. sp. 



5' . 10 mm. Head, thorax whitish irrorated dark grey. Palpi 

 whitish irrorated dark fuscous. Forewings rather narrow, apex 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 out of 6 ; whitish 

 irrorated dark fuscous ; seven or eight blackish spots along costa ; 

 a blackish mark on fold towards base ; stigmata represented by 

 blackish spots, diseal remote, an additional spot between these, 

 ])lical beneath first diseal ; two confluent blackish spots before upper 

 part of termen : cilia grey-whitish, basal half mixed blackish. 

 Hindwings light grey, paler and thinly scaled in disc and towards 

 base ; cilia whitish-grey, 



Upeensland, Brisbane, July {Dodd) ; 1 ex., Wals. Coll. (233-48). 



Thiotricha pancratiastis, n. sp. 



J . 10 ram. Head white. Palpi white, basal joint dark grey, 

 second joint short, with apical pencil of a few long whitish hairs 

 above, terminal joint twice second, anterior edge blackish. Tliorax 

 white, five dark fuscous stripes. Forewings very narrow, widest 

 near base, costa almost straight, faintly sinuate, apex tolerably 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; white ; markings dark 

 fuscous ; a line along basal fourth of costa, terminating in an 

 irregular-edged blotch occupying costal half of wing to |, containing 

 a very oblique white striga from middle of costa and a longitudinal 

 white striga beneath it, and terminated by an oblique white dark- 

 edged line from | of costa to middle of termen, becoming pale 

 metallic-blue on diseal third and broken inwards beneath it; a 

 subcostal line from base almost reaching costal blotch, one beneath 

 this nearly from base and one from base above fold, both running 

 into costal blotch ; two oblique-triangular spots from basal portion 

 of dorsum reaching fold ; a somewhat upcurved line from middle 

 of dorsum to tornus ; a gradually attenuated streak from middle of 

 fold to blue diseal portion of posterior line ; a short line along 

 a])ical portion of fold, and an arrowhead above it terminated by 

 posterior line ; apical area'beyond posterior line tawny-fuscous on 

 costa with three very short whitish marks before apex, last limiting 

 a round black apical dot preceded by a pale metallic blue dot : 

 cilia whitish-grey, above a])cx white with two dark fuscous bars 

 running into a strong projecting dark fuscous apical hook, beneath 

 this a leaden-grey patch tinged bluish. Hindwings apex long- 



