370 EXOTIC JlICROLEl'IDOPTERA, 



Bucculatrix clerotheta, n. sp. 



cJ . 7 mm. Head white, tuft centrally suffused with blackish. 

 Thorax white, with a large blackish dorsal blotch. Abdomen 

 grej'. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced ; white, with a few 

 scattered blackish scales; markings dark fuscous or blackish; a 

 moderately broad irregular oblique fascia at 5 ; a blotch on costa 

 before middle, an oblique transverse patch from costa beyond 

 middle, and a blotch on dorsum between these ; an oblique patch 

 crossing wing before apex : cilia light grey, with scattered black 

 points, round apex forming two lines. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 light grey. 



CooRG, Dibidi, 3500 feet, in February and October {Newcome) ; 

 three specimens. 



XYLORYCTIDiE. 



MYSTACERNIS, n. g. 



Head with loosely appressed scales, sidetufts roughly spreading ; 

 ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae |, basal joint moder- 

 ately elongate, thickened with scales towards apex. Labial palpi 

 very long, recurved, second joint thickened with scales, tufted with 

 long rough sjjreading scales beneath throughout, terminal joint 

 as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 

 filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with long 

 hairs above. Eorewings with 2 from near angle, 2-5 rather 

 approximated, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to termen, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings 1 , trapezoidal, termen faintly sinuate, cilia nearly 1 ; 

 '6 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximated, 6 and 7 short-stalked. 



Mystacernis alphesta, n. sp. 



5 , 11 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-whitish, second joint brownish-tinged except towards 

 apex. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, 

 oblique ; brownish-ochreous suffusedly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 discal stigmata cloudy, dark fuscous, connected by pale ochreous 

 suffusion : cilia light fuscous, on termen with apical half blackish- 

 grey. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia ochi'eous-whitish. 



Ntassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in December (AV(t'«); one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Thyrocopa librodes, n. sp. 



5 . 26 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, somewhat 

 pale-sprinkled. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 

 fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous, mai'gins and posterior part 

 of disc broadly suffused with dark fuscous sprinkled with paler ; 

 stigmata forming cloudy dark fuscous spots, plical indistinct, hardly 



