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228 EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOPTERA. 



Cerostoma electropa, n. sp. 



2 . 20 mm. Head yellowish-white. Palpi white, second joint 

 brownish-ochreous except anterior edge. Thorax violet-ochreous. 

 Abdomen whitish, suffused with light grey posteriorly. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 short-stalked ; violet- 

 ochreous : cilia concolorous. Hind wings pale grey, becoming 

 rather dark grey towards apex and upper part of termen ; cilia 

 whitish, with grey basal shade. 



Aeizona, Palnierlee ; one specimen, 



Plutella monochlora, n. sp. ^ 7* «e^r>ri yi^* cV^ix^ /^ 



5. 15 mm. Head whitish. Palpi white, second joint and tuft ^<^. 

 whitish-ochreous except apical edge. Thorax whitish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 whitish-ochreous ; costal edge white ; three or four scattered 

 fuscous scales towards tornus : cilia white. Hindwings with 5 

 and 6 stalked ; ochreous-whitish, more bchreous-tinged towards 

 apex ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Colorado, at 5000 feet, in July ; one specimen. 



(ECOPHORID^. 



Tortricopsis erythrura, n. sp. 



c? . 21 mm. Head fuscous finely sprinkled with whitish. Palpi 

 fuscous speckled with whitish, second joint ferruginous-brown 

 except apical margin, tuft short, triangular. Antennal ciliations 3. 

 Thorax brownish mixed with grey and fuscous. Abdomen light 

 yellow, anal tuft crimson-red. Forewings suboblong, costa rather 

 strongly arched towards base, thence faintly sinuate, apex obtuse, 

 termen sinuate, somewhat oblique ; ferruginous-brown, largely 

 suffused with light grey, on posterior half sprinkled with dark 

 grey ; blacldsh marks on costa at \ and before middle, from each 

 of which oblique series of two or three blackish dots ruu to disc : 

 cilia ferruginous-brown sprinkled with dark grey, tips pale j'el- 

 lowish. Hindwings ochreous-yellow, tinged with brown towards 

 apex ; cilia light yellowish, round apex and upper part of termen 

 tinged with brownish. 



Qtjeensland, Cairns, in August (Dodd) ; one specimen. Typo 

 in Coll. Lyell. Intermediate between semijtinctella and lyyrojJtis ; 

 differs from the former by the costal black marks being nearer 

 together, the second being before the riiiddle instead of beyond it, 

 and emitting series of dots instead of unbroken lines, from the 

 latter by the costal black marks being more remote, and the 

 conspicuous red anal tuft (as in semijunctella). 



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