452 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



grey suffusedly irrorated dark grey ; cloudy whitish oblique marks 

 from costa at 5 aiad middle, and a dot in disc beneath apex of first 

 of these ; an oblique whitish mark from dorsum towards tornns, 

 preceded by some black scales on fold ; second discal stigma small, 

 cloudy, black, followed by some white scales ; two or three cloudy 

 white dots or dashes on costa towards apex ; a prseapical black 

 dash closo and parallel to termen, edged on both sides and anteriorly 

 with whitish : cilia grey-whitish, base sprinkled dark grey. Hind- 

 wings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Mesopotamia, Baghdad, bred April from fallen dates (fruits of 

 Phoenix dactyUfera) collected jDecember {Y. R. Rao); 3 ex. 



/ PECHYPTILA, n. g. 



Head smooth ; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed. Antennaj 

 over 1, in S simple, basal joint elongate, with slight })eeteii. 

 Labial palpi very long, slender, recurved, second joint slightly 

 thickened with appressed scales, terminal joint longer than second, 

 acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Anterior tibiae with tuft of 

 long hairscales ; posterior tibiae clothed with long rough hairs 

 above. Forewings 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 

 costa, 11 from middle. Hind wings under 1, narrow-lanceolate, 

 cilia 2h ; 2-7 separate. 



Allied to Persicoptila. 



Pechyptila rhodocharis, n. sp. 

 (S . 13 mm. Head, thorax pale rosy-ochreous mixed blackish. 

 Palpi whitish-rosy-ochreous, terminal joint externally dark fuscous, 

 tip whitish. Tuft of anterior tibiae rose-pink, tip whitish. Fore- 

 wings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; brown sufiused rose-pink ; 

 markings dark fuscous mixed black ; a costal streak from \ to ^, 

 narrowest towards middle, costal edge dark fuscous to base ; a 

 thicker streak along dorsum from base to tornus ; two fine dashes 

 from base ; a slender streak in disc from 3 to | ; some irregular 

 marks and scattered black scales posteriorly : cilia light grey, on 

 basal half rose-pink with slight blackish-grey bars on termen, 

 above apex a blackish projecting hook. Hindwings and cilia dark 



grey. 



Queensland, Cairns ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



Persicoptila viuosa, n. sp. 



5 . 12 mm. Head, thorax light bronzy-ochreous, face and palpi 

 ochreous-whitish. Posterior tibia? tufted with light dull purplish- 

 rosy scales mixed blackish. Forewings very narrow, widest near 

 base, thence narrowed to acute apex ; yellow ; two purple patches, 

 irrorated and on margins suffused dark grey, first occupying basal 

 third of wing but leaving extreme base rosy, edge retracted on 

 costa, second forming a fascia at | broadly expanded downwards : 

 cilia yellow, beneath tornus grey. Hijidwings whitish-grey ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish. 



Queensland, Cairns {Dodd) ; 1 ex. Type in Coll. Lower. 



