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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
two black marks before apex : cilia whitish with lines of dark grey 
specks, above apex with stronger dark grey speckling on basal half 
and grey outwardly, white on costal marks, liindwings grey; cilia 
light greyish. 
Palestine, Haifa, May (Buxton)] 3 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Nearest cicaudella and finitimella , which, however, both have a 
white dorsal streak. 
Sophronia catharurga, n. sp. 
$. 11 mm. Head silvery-white. Palpi wholly white, tuft 
moderate. Thorax grey, anteriorly suffused white. Eorewings 
rather narrow, pointed, termen very oblique ; greyish-ochreous, on 
costa posteriorly sprinkled dark grey, dorsal area broadly suffused 
silvery-whitish; a moderate shining white costal streak from base 
to middle, thence leaving costa and continued narrowed to 4, where 
it receives an oblique white strigula from costa at |; beneath this 
three short longitudinal white lines in disc from middle, uppermost 
running into costal streak, some white irroration beyond these; a 
spot of whitish suffusion on tornus, followed by some dark grey 
irroration : cilia whitish, a dark fuscous subbasal line, on costa also 
a hasal line, tips fuscous, a dark fuscous apical spot. Hindwings 
grey- whitish ; cilia whitish. 
Palestine, Akka, June ( Buxton ) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
CROSSOBELA, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed. 
Antennce 4, in <$ serrulate, basal joint moderate, without pecten. 
Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint thickened with 
dense rough projecting scales beneath throughout, above with scales 
rather expanded towards apex, terminal joint half second, slender, 
pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Eorewings 2-6 separate, 
7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings under 1, 
elongate-trapezoidal, apex produced, termen emarginate, cilia 2 ; 
3 and 4 rather approximated, 5 remote, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Allied to Brachyacma , differing by second joint of palpi rough- 
scaled beneath. 
Crossobela barysphena, n. sp. 
cJ . 11-12 mm. Eorewings elongate, apex pointed, termen 
very obliquely rounded ; light yellow-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled 
light grey ; a dark fuscous thinly whitish-sprinkled costal streak 
from | to apex, attenuated anteriorly and becoming broad pos¬ 
teriorly ; a narrow dorsal similar streak, extended as a slender 
terminal streak to apex ; discal stigmata moderate, blackish : cilia 
light grey, on costa dark grey. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia 
light grey. 
Cyprus, Limassol, February ( Mavromouslciki) ; 2 ex. (Brit. Mus.), 
unfortunately much damaged in transit, but determinable. 
