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XIII. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. 



[Read June 1st, 1887.] 



In this paper I have described a few new genera and 

 species which seemed to me to have individual charac- 

 teristics that rendered them worth making known, from 

 a systematic point of view ; with one or two others as to 

 which there has been some specific confusion. 



HYDROCAMPID.E. 



Mixophyla, n. g. 



Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed. 

 Antennae J, in male — '?. Labial palpi moderately long, slender, 

 smooth-scaled, recurved, terminal joint two-thirds of second, 

 acute. Maxillary palpi moderate, slender, porrected, apex peni- 

 cillate. Posterior tibiae with all spurs long and almost equal. 

 Fore wings with veins 4 and 5 somewhat approximated at base, 

 8 and 9 stalked, 10 absent, 11 from near 9. Hind wings as broad 

 as fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 approximated at base, 6 rising from 

 near 7, 7 from angle of cell, anastomosing with 8 from near origin 

 to before middle, lower median loosely pectinated towards base. 



A most singular genus, very distinct from any known 

 to me. It must, I think, be regarded as an early 

 developmental type in this family, showing some affinity 

 with the Musotimiike and Crambithe. It will hardly be 

 credited that this insect, with labial palpi like those of 

 an CEcophora (to say nothing of the peculiar neuration), 

 is described by Mr. Moore without remark as a typical 

 Crambus, presumably solely on the ground of the similar 

 type of marking. 



Mixophyla erminea, Moore. 



Crambus ermineus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii., 380, pi. 

 clxxxiv., 7. 



$,11 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs snow- 

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