126 SICULID^.— PTEALID^. 



the costa of fore wing ; the postmedial band in some specimens consisting of reddish specks 

 on the nervules, and with a reddish blotch below the costa of fore wing ; a black autecilial 

 line. Hind wing with a black speck at end of cell. Underside ochreous white, with scat- 

 tered brown striae. Both wings with dark brown markings, which consist of a spot at end of 

 cell ; a curved medial band ; a double luuulate postmedial band, more or less diffused towards 

 outer margin, and with a series of specks on the nervules inside it ; and a marginal band. 

 In some specimens the postmedial band on the underside of the hind wing is single. 



Allied to L. exclusa. 



SICULID^. 



Microsca striativena. (Plate CLIV. fig. 1.) 



Expanse W inch. 



Male. Both wings pale ochreous white, with very indistinct darker markings, among 

 which medial and submarginal are recognizable. Cilia ferruginous. Underside : fore wing 

 with numerous short transverse striae on the costa; five bjack streaks on each side of the 

 middle portion of the subcostal nervure, continued as streaks on the subcostal nervules; two 

 large ferruginous patches covering the greater pait of the basal area to the end of 

 the cell. 



Nearest to M. pallida, but without the subapical white patch. 



PYRALID^. 



KOPTOPLAX, g. n. 



Male. Palpi upturned, extending above the vertex of the head ; the first joint very 

 thickly pilose, the second joint less so. Antenna closely bipectinate, the branches short. 

 Fore wing with the apical third of the costa cut off, the cut margin folded over on the upper 

 surface of the wing. 



Female unknown. 



Allied to Otopla, Walk., the costa of which is more bent forwards and the apex much 

 more truncate ; also to Oromena, from which it differs in having the second joint of the palpi 

 much more pilose and the apex of fore wing in male being truncate. 



