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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
obliquely rounded; 7 separate ; light grey speckled whitish, veins 
faintly lined brown, more or less distinctly edged whitish ; minute 
violet-greyish dots often including one or two black specks scattered 
in longitudinal series between veins ; a narrow fuscous dorsal streak 
from base to tornus, attenuated at extremities, upper edge marked 
with several raised black dots and more or less margined whitish ; 
beneath vein 7 a fine line of blackish irroration : cilia whitish- 
ochreous, base mixed greyish, at apex a slender grey blackish- 
sprinkled bar. Hindwings light grey, thinly scaled in disc and 
towards base ; cilia ochreous-wliitish, basal third light grey. 
Kumaox, Muktesar, 7000 feet, September ( Fletcher) ; 4 ex. 
Cerostoma^vomerata, n. sp. 
2 . 24 mm. Head with fuscous hairscales tipped ochreous- 
whitish. Palpi fuscous speckled whitish, tuft hardly as long as 
terminal joint. Thorax pale brownish sprinkled dark fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen 
faintly sinuate, oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked ; brownish, irregularly 
irrorated fuscous and dark fuscous, a few raised black scales; a 
broad irregular dorsal streak of whitish-ochreous. suffusion from 
base to near tornus, becoming obsolete posteriorly, edged above by 
a thick streak of blackish-grey suffusion from base 'to | of wing, 
its apex produced obliquely upwards into disc; a transverse mark 
of blackish-grey suffusion on end of cell; a spot of blackish-grey 
suffusion on costa in middle, and two or three oblique marks 
towards apex : cilia whitish-grey, some rows of dark fuscous points, 
at apex some brown suffusion. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled in 
disc ; cilia ochreouS-grey-whitish, towards base greyish-tinged. 
Ktjmaor, Muktesar, 7000 feet, September (. Fletcher ) ; 1 ex. 
PSYCKROMNESTRA, n. g. 
Head rough-haired above, more shortly on face ; ocelli posterior ; 
tongue developed. Antennas f, basal joint elongate, rather thickened, 
with pecten. Labial palpi moderate or rather short, subascending, 
slender, loosely scaled, terminal joint longer than second, pointed. 
Maxillary palpi short or very short, filiform, porrected. Posterior 
tibiae with appressed scales. Forewings 16 furcate, 2 from towards 
angle, 3 and 4 approximated from angle, 7 to termen, 11 from 
middle. Hindwings 1, oblong-ovate, cilia J-; 3 and 4 approximated 
from angle, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Type isonipTias. An interesting genus with affinities to Niplio- 
nijmphci , Eucercitia , and Cerostomci. 
Psychromnestra isoniphas, n. sp. 
2 . 20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white. Forewings elongate, 
dilated, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen hardly 
sinuate, oblique; snow-white: cilia wholly white. Hindwings 
grey, tornus somewhat suffused white ; cilia white. 
Kashmir, Gulmarg (below), 8000 feet, July (Fletcher) j 1 ex. 
