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SICULIDiE. — PTEALID^. 
the costa of fore wing ; the postraedial band in some specimens consisting of reddish specks 
on tlie nervules, and with a reddish blotch below the costa of fore wing ; a black antecilial 
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 lunulate 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 strife on the costa ; five black streaks on each side of the 
middle portion of the subcostal nervure, continued as streaks on the subcostal nervules; two 
large ferruginous patches covei'ing the greater part 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. Antennae 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. 
