332 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 



Prochoia obstructa, n. sp. 



$. 11 mm. Head and thorax whitish-fuscous mixed with 

 violet-grey. Palpi oehreous-whitish suffusedly irrorated with dark 

 fuscous except apex of joints. Antenna3 dark grey, apical third 

 W'hitish. Abdomen rather dark grey. Forewings narrow-lanceo- 

 late ; fuscous, strewn with scattered dark fuscous strigulse and 

 scales ; an oblique dark fuscous fasciaform blotcli from costa at |, 

 ])osteriorly edged with whitish, reaching to fold ; a cloudy patch of 

 darker suffusion on middle of costa, beneath which is a small patch 

 of pale ochreous sufl'usion in disc ; plical stigma small, blackish, 

 second discal large, blackish, partially wliitish-edged ; cloudy daik 

 fuscous dots on margins towards apex : cilia dark grey. Hind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 45U0 feet, in June (Parish) ; one specimen. 



Trachydora chrysodoxa, n. sp. 



$. 14-15 mm. Head whitish-bronzy-ochreous. Palpi oehreous- 

 whitish. Thorax bronzy-yellowish with three blackish-grey longi- 

 tudinal streaks suffused together anteriorly. Abdomen ochreous- 

 yellow, base blackish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex sub- 

 falcate ; ochreous-orange ; a blackish streak from base of costa just 

 beneath costa to 4; a somewhat curved blackish streak from near 

 dorsum towards base to disc at I- ; a similar streak from dorsum 

 beneath apex of this to a transverse golden-metallic tuft in disc 

 at I ; a transverse golden-metallic ridge from dorsum at | of wing, 

 anteriorly irreofularly edged with blackish, and a shorter golden- 

 metallic ridge from costa slightly beyond and almost meeting it ; a 

 longitudinal blackish streak from | of disc to apex, its anterior 

 extremity cut off by a golden-metallic tr;insverse ridge resting on 

 tornus : cilia light ochreous-yellowish, towards tornus sometimes 

 greyisli-tinged, at apex with a blackish bar, nbove apex with a short 

 blackish subbasal line. Hindwings dark fuscous, with brassy 

 reflections ; cilia grey, on costa light ochreous-yellowish. 



NoKTH Australia, Port Darwin (Dodd) ; two specimens. 



Trachydora holochorda, n. sp. 



5 . 23 mm. Head grey-whitish sprinkled with blackish. Thorax 

 grey-whitish irrorated with blackisli, with a broad blackish stri])e 

 on each side, and with an expansible tuft of long white scales on 

 each side in front beneath forewings. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewiiigs elongate-lanceolate ; dark grey suflfusedly irrorated with 

 whitish, more strongly whitish-suffused towards costa anteriorly ; 

 a broad black median longitudinal streak from base, towards middle 

 becoming suffused and obsolete except a narrow suffused streak 

 extending its upper margin to apex ; a very oblique blackish 

 strigula from costa at 4 ; a transverse ridge of scales in disc at | 

 of wing; two transverse ridges of grey whitish-tipped scales beneath 

 median streak at I and | of wing, one slightly beyond middle of 



