354 EXOTIC MICEOLEPTDOPTKRA. 



Kanaba, Chandavar, in February {Maxwell); one specimen. 

 Nearest the African cathareata, but considerably smaller, and that 

 species is wholly dark-sprinkled. 



Tischeria hestias, n. sp. 



5 . 5 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ashy-fuscous. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewiiigs lanceolate, apex rather produced, downturiied ; 

 violet-fuscous, sprinkled with blackish towards costa posteriorly : 

 cilia fuscous, round apex pale ochreous with a median line of black 

 specks. Hind wings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Karwar, bred in August (Maxwell) ; one specimen. 

 Larva mining a squarish blotch occupying space between two 

 veius of leaf oi Helicteres isora (Sterculiaceae), no excrement visible; 

 pupa within the mine, protruded in emergence (Maxwell). 



Tischeria compta, n. sp. 



(S . 9 mm. Head with dense tolerably appressed scales, fuscotis, 

 face suflused with pale yellowish. Palpi pale yellowish. Thorax 

 fuscous. Forewings lanceolate, apex slightly produced ; greyish- 

 fulvous, margins suffused with grey, termen, apex, and posterior 

 third of costa more strongly suffused with dark violet-grey ; cilia 

 dark grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Assam, Khasis, in April; one specimen. The depressed scales 

 of head are unusual, but in all other respects the species is normal, 

 and it is undoubtedly to be regarded as a true Tischeria. 



Bucculatrix perfixa, n. sp. 



S . 7 mm. Head whitish, centre of tuft mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax ochreous -whitish sprinkled with brownish- 

 ochreous. Abdomen whitish-grey. Forewings lanceolate, apex 

 acutely produced; ochreous -whitish irregularly irrorated with 

 broAvnish- ochreous ; markings ocbreous-browu irrorated with 

 black ; a suffused streak along fold, interrupted beneath middle 

 of wing ; a line along anterior half of costa, connected with an 

 oblique spot before middle and a broad very oblique streak from 

 costa beyond middle to middle of termen : cilia grey- whitish, 

 round apex with a few black specks. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia 

 grej'- whitish. 



New South Wales, Sydney, in September ; one specimen. 



Bucculatrix exedra, n. sp. 



(^2.8 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, tuft slightly s])rinkled 

 with fuscous. Thorax ochreous-whitish, with a few dark fuscous 

 specks. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex 

 rather produced, acute ; ochreous-whitish finely irrorated with 

 dark fuscous specks ; a patch of brown suffusion on costa before 

 middle, another on dorsum towards |, enclosing a blackish tuft 

 representing plical stigma, and a third patch extending obliquely 

 from costa beyond middle to a group of black scales in disc at 4- 



