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EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOPTEEA. 
Platyptilia locharcha, n. sp. 
(5. 28 mm. Head pale oclireous mixed white and fuscous, 
forehead with rough projecting hairs. Palpi nearly 2, slender, 
ferruginous-ochreous, terminal joint white lined fuscous. Thorax 
pale brownish-ochreous tinged whitish, metathorax clear pale 
yellow. Abdomen pale oehreous suffusedly streaked dark brown, 
base pale yellow, apex oehreous-whitish. Forewings cleft from |, 
segments moderate, first acutely pointed, termen of second slightly 
sinuate, very oblique; reddish-brown, basal § sprinkled dark 
reddish-fuscous, with scattered somewhat raised whitish hairscales, 
costa suffused whitish from before middle to lower edge of both 
segments dark brown posteriorly : cilia grey, beneath apex of first 
segment whitish-grey beyond a dark fuscous median shade, on 
termen of second segment white with fine dark reddish-fuscous 
basal line, on dorsum whitish irregularly strewn dark fuscous 
scales, at tornus light red-brownish. Hindwings reddish-grey; 
cilia light grey, reddish-tinged on basal half, on dorsum mixed on 
basal half with numerous black-tipped scales from base to f. 
S. Rhodesia, Mazoe, January ; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Platyptilia isocrates, n. sp. 
S $ . 19-22 mm. Head, thorax white, in $ partially tinged 
oehreous. Palpi whitish, in $ tinged or sprinkled fuscous. 
Forewings cleft from J, segments broad, termen of first slightly 
sinuate, of second hardly convex; light brownish-ochreous suf¬ 
fusedly irrorated white, in <5 more or less wholly suffused white; 
a slender dark fuscous costal streak from base to |, in $ sometimes 
suffused brown beneath; a fuscous dqt in disc beneath this at f; 
sometimes a minute fuscous dot before lower angle of cleft: cilia 
white or ochreous-whitish, a strong dark brown subbasal line, on 
dorsum greyish sprinkled with black basal scales from J- to T. 
Hindwings pale grey, in tinged whitish; cilia pale grey or 
in <$ grey-whitish, on dorsum of third segment with small median 
patch of greyish black-tipped scales and scattered similar scales 
between this and base. 
Kashmir, Killanmarg, 10,000 feet, July, “ amongst bushes and 
alpine flowers on hillside just above a large patch of snow ” 
(Fletcher) ; 4 ex. 
Pterophorus sckolasticus, n. sp. 
. 23 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen white. Forewings 
segments moderate, equally broad, acute; white, very faintly 
yellowish-tinged ; costa pale greyish from base to beyond middle ; 
termen of second segment suffused pale greyish: cilia white. 
Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Palestine, Wadi Kelt, May ( Buxton ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
