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EXOTIC MICROLEFIDOPTEEA. 
irrorated dark grey. Forewings rather narrow, pointed; grey- 
whitish irrorated dark grey; a slender brownish-ochreous subcostal' 
line anteriorly; a brownish-ochreous streak along fold, and 
dorsum, narrowly suffused brownish-ochreous throughout; stigmata 
blackish, somewhat elongate, discal ringed brownish-ochreous, 
plical hardly before first discal, adjoining second discal posteriorly 
a circular blotch of pale brownish-ochreous suffusion extending to 
dorsum and nearly to costa, including a round central spot of 
groundcolour, sending a streak alongtermen to apex: cilia whitish- 
grey speckled black. Hindwings bluish-grey ; cilia grey. 
Palestine, Jericho, bred from spun leaves of Balanites aegyptiaca 
(■ Rubiacece ) ( Buxton ); 1 ex. (Brit. Hus.). 
Thiotricha delacma, n. sp. 
<5 2 • 13-15 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi white, terminal 
joint with dark fuscous anterior line. Forewings narrow, apex 
pointed, termen concave-indented beneath it, then very obliquely 
rounded ; shining white, with faint brownish-ochreous tinge; 
extreme costal edge dark fuscous, becoming a dark brown streak 
on apical third, towards apex cut by an oblique - wedgeshaped 
white mark, followed by two white dots edged black beneath, last 
terminated by a black apical dot; a fuscous or brownish streak 
along dorsum nearly from base, becoming wider along termen 
where it includes ah oblique white streak before tornus and 
a white mark or dot on termen : cilia grey, round apex brownish, 
at apex a dark fuscous basal bar and black projecting hook on tips. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey, at apex a black bar on tips. 
S. India, Palnis, Kodaikanal, 7000 feet ( Fletcher ); 4 ex. 
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Thiotricha xanthodora, n. sp. 
S . 8 mm. Head, thorax silvery. (Palpi missing.) Forewings 
narrow, pointed; rather dark glossy fuscous; light ochreous- 
yellowish subcostal, median, and dorsal streaks from base to about 
4 ; a similar streak along posterior part of fold ; an ochreous- 
orange blotch extending along costa from 4 to near apex, in middle 
with a projection meeting a small spot on tornus: cilia grey. 
Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 
Burma, Pyinmana, Harch ( Fletcher ) ; 1 ex. 
Idiophantis disparata, n. sp. 
S • 10 mm. (Head missing.) Thorax ochreous-whitish tinged 
fuscous, an irregular dark fuscous antemedian bar. Forewings 
ochreous-greyish, anterior f suffused whitish ; five dark fuscous 
marks in a row beneath fold from base to middle of wing, two 
oblique above fold continuing third and fourth of these, and one 
towards costa at J-; costal edge white from near base to near apex ; 
an oblique irregular dark fuscous streak from middle of costa 
