322 r.XOTIC MICliOI.EriDOPTEEA. 



Persicoptila picrodes, n. sp. 



cJ . 13 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, with two longitudinal 

 groy streaks. Palpi white, terminal joint with two greyish 

 bands, Thorax grey with four whitish lines. Tuft of posterior 

 tibiae whitish with two light greyish bars. Forewings narrow- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, acute; light greyish-ochreous, irregulaidy 

 strewn with dark fuscous scales towards dorsum, and with pome 

 scattered dark fuscous scales in disc at | and ^ ; an indistinct 

 transverse whitish spot from costa before middle ; apex suffused 

 Avith dark fuscous, limited by a whitish prfeapical bar: cilia 

 och ''eons - whitish, towards base yellowish - tinged, somewhat 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous, round apex with a blackish median 

 line. Hindwings ochreous-whitish ; cilia ochrcous-whitish, more 

 yellowish-tinged towards base. 



!S. India, I'alnis, 6000 feet {Camphell) ; one specimen. 



Cosmopteryx cMorochalca, n. sp. 



S 5 . 10-13 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-bronzy with 

 Ihree fine white lines above. Palpi whitish lined with blackish. 

 Antennae dark grey, basal joint whitish lined with black. Ab- 

 domen rather dark grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings lanceolate, 

 apex very long-caudate; ochreous-bronze ; dorsal edge finely 

 white from base to near middle of wing ; a moderate hardly 

 paler postraedian transverse band, enclosed by two nearly direct 

 entire violet-golden-metallic fasciae, first followed above middle 

 by a black dot or small spot ; from middle of second a white 

 sinuate line extends along termen to apex : cilia pale ochreous, 

 at apex with a white dash, towards toruus grey. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



YicxoEiA, Gisborne, in December (Li/ell) ; three specimens. 



Cosmopteryx ligyrodes, n. sp. 



c? , 8 mm. Head dark bronzy-fuscous, with three fine white 

 lines. Palpi white lined with dark fuscous. Antennae black 

 lined with white, four apical joints white, then three black, 

 one white, one black, one white, one black, one white. Thorax 

 dark fuscous, with three fine white lines. Abdomen grey. 

 Posterior tibiae blackish, with white median, subapical, and 

 apical rings. Forewings narrow -lanceolate, apex produced, 

 acute ; very dark fuscous ; dorsal edge white towards base ; three 

 fine white longitudinal lines, subcostal rather oblique, from 

 lieneath base of costa to beyond |, median short, widely remote 

 Irom base aud band, subdorsal rather longer than median poste- 

 riorly ; costa narrowly white for short space before band ; a broad 

 orange-yellow postniedian band, edged by two narrow goldcn- 

 nietallic fasciae, anterior hardly oblique, followed above middle by 

 a small black dot, posterior somewhat inwards-oblique, edged 

 anteriorly with some black scales, interrupted in middle by a 



