Mr. E. Meyrick’s Descri'ptions of Micro-Lepicloptera. 367 
form small, round, cloudy, dark fuscous, vertically placed ; discal 
obscurely 8-shaped, outlined with dark fuscous, upper half suf¬ 
fused with fuscous and connected with a dark fuscous spot on 
costa, lower half incomplete and suffused with white; cilia white, 
basal third barred with fuscous. Hindwings pale brassy-whitish- 
ochreous ; cilia white. 
Mauritius ; four specimens. A distinct species, rather 
of European type. 
PTEROPHORIDAE. 
Trichoptilus, Wals. 
Trichoptihis loaJilbergi, Zell. 
Mauritius ; two specimens. Widely distributed, prob¬ 
ably artificially introduced. 
Platyptilia, Hb. 
Platyptilia hrachymorpha, Meyr. 
Mauritius ; two specimens. Also very widely spread. 
Platyptilia censoria, n. sp. 
^ . 17 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish-ochreous mixed with 
whitish (damaged). Abdomen pale ochreous, marked with dark 
fuscous suffusion on sides towards middle. Forewings cleft from 
beyond f, segments broad, ternien of first concave, of second some¬ 
what rounded, oblique ; whitish-ochreous mixed with whitish and 
sprinkled with brownish : an acute-triangular dark fuscous spot 
before cleft, apex directed anteriorly ; a straight whitish subterminal 
line obscurely indicated, followed by stronger fuscous irroration : 
cilia whitish, on termen with basal third fuscous limited by a 
blackish line, with dark fuscous patches beneath lower angles of 
both segments and above upper angle of second, and two fuscous 
black-tipped scaleteeth on dorsum before and beyond cleft, with a 
few scattered black scales. Hindwings with segments moderately 
broad, termen of second sinuate ; grey; cilia pale greyish, with a 
rather large triangular darker grey black-tipped scaletooth on 
middle of dorsum, and a few scattered black scales. 
Mauritius ; one specimen. Not closely approaching 
any other. 
