30 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 



middle : cilia whitish or pale fuscous, indistinctly barred with dark 

 fuscous on basal half, above apex with a dark fuscous patch. Hind- 

 wiugs grey ; cilia whitish-grey, Avith grey subbasal shade. 



Transvaal, Barberton, Three Sisters, from December to February 

 (Janse) ; Natal, Pinetowu {Leigh) ; four specimens. 



Nemotois gymnota, n. sp. 



c? . 13 mm. Head fulvous on crown, with a few black hairs, 

 face shining purple-grey, eyes much enlarged, nearly approximated. 

 Antennae white, smooth, basal joint dark purple-grey. Palpi very 

 short, fulvous, loosely haired. Thorax metallic bronze. Abdomen 

 dark grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; bright deep 

 purple, with some scattered coppery-golden scales, more numerous 

 on dorsal area ; a short black streak beneath costa at base ; some 

 irregularly scattered black scales in disc : cilia shining cop])ery- 

 bronze. Hindwings and cilia deep bronze. 

 Madagascar, Antananarivo ; one specimen. 



EUCOSMTD/E. 



Ancylis tumida, n. sp. 



J 2 . 13-15 mm. Head and thorax brownish, face whitish. 

 Palpi fuscous, terminal joint and hairs of second white. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, 

 in c? without fold, apex round-pointed, strongly prominent, termen 

 strongly concave below apex, rounded beneath ; 7 and 8 very 

 shortly stalked ; reddish-ochreous-brown ; costa dark fuscous, witli 

 pairs of oblique whitish strigulse ; a dark brown flattened-triangular 

 patch extending along costa from before middle to near apical 

 prominence, crossed by very oblique leaden-grey strigae ; a white 

 ( J ) or ochreous-whitish (2) line along submedian fold throughout, 

 dorsal area beneath suffused with darlc brown or dark fuscous ; two 

 streaks of dark fuscous suffusion running from beyond cell to near 

 apical prominence, beyond these an oblique pale leaden-metallic 

 mark; tornal area streaked with dark fuscous suffusion; apical 

 prominence irrorated anteriorly with blackish, edged beneath and 

 anteriorly above by white marks ; a fine l)lack marginal line round 

 apex and upper part of termen : cilia brownish. Hindwings with 

 3 and t coincident, tornus in J rectangular, almost acute ; rather 

 dark grey, in c? except on margins hyaline closely strewn with 

 blackish points ; cilia grey. 



Ceylon, Kandy, in September (Green), d type; Madras, 

 N. Coorg, 3500 feet, in August (Neivcome) ; two specimens. 



