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reacbinj? } across wiiij? : cilia grey mixod dark fuscous towards 

 base, tips at apex whitish. Hindwino^s dark fuscous ; ciha grey. 

 Sooth Australia, Penola, November ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



MICROPLITIS, n. g. 

 Head smooth, glossy; ocelli posterior: tongue developed 

 Auteunffi | in S minutelv ciliated, basal joint short, without 

 pncten. Labial palpi very short, porrected, filiform, pointed. 

 Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibise clothed with hairs 

 above. Forewings lb simple, 2 from angle, 3 absent, 5 absent, 

 n and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 9 absent, 11 from raidd e. Hindwings 

 h, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 3 ; 2 and 3 very short, 4 absent, 5 and 

 stalked, 7 approximated . 



Microplitis desmophanes, n. sp. 

 c? 6 mm Head, thorax leaden-metallic Antennse grey, a 

 whitish band near apex. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate; deep 

 conpery-bronze suffusedly mixed dark fuscous ; markings leaden- 

 metallic • a moderate fascia almost at base connected by some dorsal 

 suffusion with a narrow fascia before middle; a transverse spot 

 from tornus reaching half across wing ; an apical spot, rather 

 produced along termen : cilia dark grey. Hindwings and cilia 



dark grey. 



Assam, ShiUong, 5000 feet, September (Fletcher); 1 ex. 



COLEOPHORID^. 



NASAMONICA, n. g. 

 Head with appressed scales; ocelli inferior; tongue rudimen- 

 (ary. Antemue basal joint elongate, with pect^en. Labial palpi 

 moderate, curved, subascending, second joint thickened with scales, 

 rather rou-h above, terminal joint shorter than second, scaled, 

 pointed, iiaxillary palpi rudimentary. Forewings 1 6 jiarrowly 

 furcate '> from angle, 3 and 4 approximated, o trom near ,6 and 7 

 Btalked 7 to costa, 8 absent, 9 and 10 from near 7 11 from 

 middle.' Hindwings |, lanceolate, cilia H; 3 and 4 stalked, 

 6 and 6 stalked, 7 nearly parallel. 



Nasamonica oxymorpha, n. sp. 

 ^ 33 mm Head, palpi, thorax ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 narro'wly elongate-lanceolate ; light fuscous, becoming light greyish- 

 ochreous on dorsal half, costa suftused ochreous-whi ish from 1 to |, 

 beneath this costal half irregularly mixed with blackish irroration, 

 posteriorly forming blackish streaks t^-^tween veins strongest t^o- 

 wards apex: cilia pale ochreous, at apex a blackish bar. Hind- 

 wings pale grey, sufiusedly irrorated darker on posterior half ; cilia 



^^LWoi-°Shabi-Chad, Bangui; lex. (Coll. Joannis). 



