590 EXOTIC MICROLEl'IDOPIEUA, 



blotch crossing fold at f of wing, irregularly edged with dark 

 fuscous specks ; a small blackish-grey spot on dorsum towards 

 tornus ; au irregular dark fuscous streak along termen : cilia grey, 

 beneath tornus whitish-grey-ochreous. Hindwings and cilia light 

 grey. 



Assam, Khasis, in September and October ; five specimens. 



Epimimastis tegminata, n. sp. 



cJ $ . 11 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-whitish, second joint suffusedly irrorated with dark 

 fuscous except tip, terminal joint with anterior edge dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous, in 5 suffused with greyish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 rounded, rather oblique ; 6 out of 8 near base ; brownish-ochreous ; 

 plical and first discal stigmata blackish, plical rather posterior ; 

 three or four cloudy wedgeshaped blackish marks on posterior half 

 of costa ; a terminal streak of blackish irroration, including a fine 

 whitish line just before margin : cilia pale ochreous, on tornus 

 grey, above apex with grey spot. Hindwings grey, veins darker, 

 towards base thinly scaled, on dorsum tinged with pale yellowish ; 

 cilia light grey, becoming pale yellowish on dorsum. 



QtjEENSLAND, Towusvllle (Dodd) ; two specimens. 



LEXIARCHA, n. g. 



Head smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae |, 

 in (S simple, basal joint moderate, without pecteu. Labial palpi 

 very long, recurved, with appressed scales, terminal joint as long 

 as second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed 

 to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with rough scales above. Fore- 

 wings with 2 and 3 connate from angle, 7 and 8 out of 6, 7 to 

 costa, ] 1 from middle. Hindwings somewhat over 1, trapezoidal, 

 apex pointed, termen somewhat sinuate beneath apex, cilia 1 ; 

 3 and 4 connate, 5 curved, approximated, 6 and 7 remote, parallel, 

 transverse vein very oblique from 6 to 7. 



A development of Protolechia. 



Lexiarcha galactopa, n. sp. 



S . 11 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax oehreous-white, posterior 

 extremity of thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 

 pale ochreous, Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 dark fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged ; base narrowly oehreous- 

 white ; a broad irregular-edged whitish-ochreous transverse fascia 

 about I : cilia grey, sprinkled with dark fuscous towards base. 

 Hindwings grey, thinly scaled towards base ; a thin subdorsal 

 expansible hairpencil of very long fine pale grey hairs ; cilia grey. 



North Australia, Port Darwin (Dodd); one specimen. 



