Lepidoptera. 75 



MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



By the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 



Trustee Brit. Mus. 



PYEALIDINA. 

 Family OXYCHIROTID^, Meyr. 



1. Oxychirota paradoxa, Meyr. 



Oxyehirota paradoxa, Meyr.: Tr. Ent. Soc. Load., 1884, 438-9. ^ 



-&«J.—N.S. Wales : Sydney, June. ^ 



Christmas Island ; Jan.-Mar., 1898; seven specimens. (C. W. 

 Andrews.) 



I find a specimen in my collection, apparently belonging to this 

 genus, collected at Paradeniya in Ceylon by Dr. G. H. K. Thwaites, 

 which is quite distinct from Meyrick's species. 



Family PTEROPHORID^. 



2. Cosmoclostis quadriquadra, Wlsm., sp.n. ^ 



Antennae white. Palpi scarcely projecting beyond the head ; 

 white. Head pale rust-brown above, face white. Thorax yellowish 

 white anteriorly, rust-brown posteriorly ; under-side shining white, 

 tinged with yellowish at the sides. Fore wings cleft to beyond 

 middle ; yellowish white, the costa and dorsum narrowly pale rust- 

 brown ; a few rust-brown scales crossing the wing at one-fourth 

 are succeeded by a rust-brown patch at the base of the fissure, 

 wider on the tornal than on the apical lobe ; before the middle of 

 the apical lobe is another transverse oblique rust-brown patch, 

 joined along the dorsum of the lobe to an ante-apical patch of the 

 same colour which overflows the dorsal but not the costal cilia ; on 

 the tornal lobe there is also a broad straight transverse rust-brown 

 patch beyond its middle, colouring the cilia above and below it, the 

 cilia (except where so coloured) are whitish. Exp. al. 11-13 mm. 

 Hind wings and cilia bronzy grey, the cilia of the dorsal lobe paler. 

 Abdomen rich rust-brown, with four quadrate whitish patches 

 above — one basal, one ante-median, one post-median, and one on 

 the anal segment ; under-side shining white, tinged with yellowish 



