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Cilia yellowisli-grey, blackish-fuscous on outer half of first two seg- 

 ments ; third segment with a small apical scale-tooth, composed of 

 black scales, short and of uniform length on fore margin, longer 

 basally on dorsum, and decreasing in length to tornus. 



One specimen. Aru (Wallace), ex Stainton Collection. 



In the general appearance of its fore wings this species 

 appears to be a PlatyptiUa, but the long sickle-shaped palpi, 

 ornamented abdomen, and linear-segmented hind wing, with a 

 scale-tooth on fore margin of third segment, seem to bring it 

 within the genus Oxf/jMlus as at present understood. There is 

 no doubt that, in the near future, this and other species will 

 have to be removed from the genus Oxyptilus, but until further 

 material for study is accumulated it seems to me that no good 

 purpose will be served in attempting to differentiate new genera. 



0. wallacei will probably form the type of a new genus, which 

 (though I cannot examine the neuration) will be somewhere 

 intermediate between Oxyptilus and Sochchora. 



Sochchora albipwictella, n. s. 



c^ . Exp. 15 mm. Labial palpi long, very slender, erect, smoothly 

 scaled ; second joint curved, ferruginous-brown ; third joint acumi- 

 nate, about two-thirds length of second, ferruginous-brown, paler at 

 base ; third joint equals diameter of eye. Antenn® ciliated, blackish- 

 ferruginous, dotted with whitish above. Head bright ferruginous ; 

 top of crown with some erected scales. Thorax bright ferruginous, 

 ferruginous-golden on patagia and posteriorly. Abdomen large and 

 stout; bright ferruginous-golden, dorsal region mixed with whitish 

 anteriorly, posteriorly ferruginous ; anal tuft dark ferruginous ; venter 

 whitish. Fore leg ferruginous-golden, tibia dilated with scales at 

 apex, last two tarsal joints blackish. Mid leg ferruginous-golden, 

 tibia with apical tuft emitting a pair of long spurs ; tarsal joints 

 whitish, last two blackish. Hind legs broken. Fore wing ratlier 

 broad, cleft from within three-fourths, segments broad, apex slightly 

 flaccate, termen on first segment concave, on second undulate ; bright 

 ferruginous-brown ; base indistinctly marked with yellowish, an ochre- 

 ous dorsal dot at one-fourth, an ochreous subcostal elongate spot at one- 

 fourth, followed by an ochreous subcostal longitudinal streak, a trans- 

 verse black streak opposite base of cleft at two-thirds, preceded and 

 followed by pale ochreous suffusion continued obliquely downwards 

 to dorsum, where it becomes whitish ; first segment with an in- 

 wardly-curved whitish-ochreous line near base from costa to near 

 hinder margin, area between this line and discal black streak irregu- 

 larly suffused with pale ochreous, at two-thirds length of first seg- 

 ment a transverse incurved whitish-ochreous line ; second segment 

 cut at two-thirds by an inwardly-oblique whitish-ochreous line in- 

 terrupted in centre. Cilia on costa blackish, with four short whitish- 

 ochreous streaks on first segment, at apex blackish ; on termen 

 whitish-grey, black at base ; within cleft whitish-grey ; on dorsum 

 whitish-grey, with slight blackish wisp at three-fifths, a narrow black 

 wisp at four-fifths, area beyond this tinged with ochreous. Hind 



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