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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
(longer than in barydelta ), a sabapical ring of second joint and 
three rings of terminal joint black. Abdomen dark grey. Fore¬ 
wings lanceolate; pale yellow, a few scattered blackish and 
fulvous scales; small blackish spots on costa at base, ^ and ; 
indistinct dots of blackish irroration indicating stigmata, plical very 
obliquely before first discal, sometimes some undefined and variably 
indicated slight fulvous streaks in disc; an irregular black marginal 
line round apex : cilia grey, on costa pale yellow. Hindwings dark 
grey ; cilia grey. 
Brazil, Para (Prata), July ( Parish ); 4 ex. 
Epithectis balsamopa, n. sp. 
c? 2 • 7-8 mm. Head, thorax whitish-yellow. Palpi yellow- 
whitish, subapical ring of second joint, slender basal and subapical 
and broad median ring of terminal joint black. Abdomen grey. 
Forewings lanceolate; whitish-yellow, scattered black specks; 
moderate semioval black spots on costa at base, -g- and ; small 
ochreous-orange spots edged with a few black specks representing 
stigmata, plical very obliquely before first discal; a small grey spot 
sprinkled black on tornus, and two others on termen: cilia light 
grey, on costa pale yellowish. Hindwings grey ; cilia-light grey. 
Brazil, Teffe, December ; Peru, Iquitos, March to May ( Parish ); 
8 ex. 
Telphusa disclnsa, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head, thorax whitish-grey sprinkled blackish, a 
darker central stripe, face whitish. Palpi second joint grey 
speckled whitish, anteriorly suffused dark fuscous, three indistinct 
bands of dark fuscous irroration, terminal joint whitish, some grey 
scales and subbasal band of dark fuscous irroration. Forewings 
apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; grey confusedly- 
speckled white and irregularly sprinkled blackish; a slender 
ochreous streak from base above middle to costa beyond middle, 
posterior part suffused and hardly defined; a black dot on lower 
edge of this at | of wing and one in middle of disc (first discal 
stigma); a transverse mark of raised white and dark grey scales 
on end of cell, enlarged at lower extremity: cilia grey sprinkled 
dark grey and whitish. Hindwings pale iridescent violet-grey; 
cilia light greyish. 
Palestine, Jerusalem, April ( Buxton ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Telphnsa orgilopis, n. sp. 
$ . 12 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, crown centrally 
tinged grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish irregularly sprinkled blackish, 
terminal joint nearly twice second. Thorax greyish-ochreous 
suffusedly mixed blackish except on apical half of patagia. Fore¬ 
wings apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; pinky-whitish 
irregularly suffused light grey; four undefined blackish transverse 
