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ling causing a very faint marbling: cilia iridescent-purplish-grey. Hind- 

 wings light grey with strong brassy reflection ; cilia pale grey. 

 Java, Preangor, 5000 feet (Sythoff) ; one specimen. 



Isehnoscia crebrescens n. sp. 



cT 6 mm. Head light fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, tips of joints pale. 

 Thorax pale greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous; anterior margin 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings narrow-lanceolate ; light 

 greyish-ochreous suifusedly mixed with fuscous; stigmata represented by 

 roundish dark fuscous spots, plical obliquely before first discal : cilia grey. 

 Hindwings linear-lanceolate, light grey; cilia 4, pale grey. 



Java, Pekalongan (van Deventer); two specimens. I am unable to 

 ascertain accurately the neuration, but some latitude of structure in this 

 particular is admissible. 



Lepyrotica n. g. 



Head shortly rough-haired ; ocelli posterior ; tongue obsolete. Anten- 

 nae 4 / f) , in çf simple, basal joint short, thickened with scales, with slight 

 pecten. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, with appressed scales, second 

 joint with two or three apical bristles, terminal joint rather shorter than 

 second, obtuse. Maxillary palpi several-jointed, folded, filiform. Posterior 

 tibiae smooth above, rough-scaled beneath. Forewings 2 from angle, 7 to 

 costa, 11 from beyond middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 4 / 5 ; 

 2 — 4 parallel, 5 and 6 stalked, 7 parallel. 



Allied to Syrmologa, to which it is apparently ancestral. 



Lepyrotica scardamyctis n. sp. 



cT 13 mm. Head whitish, crown tinged with grey. Palpi white, second 

 joint dark grey except tip. Thorax ochreous-grey-whitish. Abdomen pale 

 ochreous, segmental margins whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish, 

 sprinkled with ochreous-grey ; a suffused grey spot on base of costa, and 

 small spots at 2 / 5 , 3 / 5 , and 3 / 4 ; first discal stigma black; a short suffused 

 dark grey mark towards costa at 3 / 4 : cilia whitish, with indistinct inter- 

 rupted line of ochreous points. Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish, 

 suffused with pale grey towards base. 



Leeward Islands (von Hedemann); one specimen. 



Tinea proletaria n. sp. 



cf 9 8 — 11 mrn - Head light brown. Palpi dark fuscous, tip whitish. 

 Antennae grey. Thorax rather dark fuscous mixed with greyish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 



