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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
this and central fascia suffused violet-grey in disc ; central fascia 
dark brown, sometimes ferruginous-tinged, oblique, narrow towards 
costa, anterior edge near]}' straight and faintly whitish-edged, 
posterior on lower | dilated and suffused; costal patch forming a 
dark brown streak along costa from beyond middle to |, more or 
less expanded with brown suffusion beneath, a line of strigulae 
running from posterior end of this to near termen beneath middle : 
cilia pale brownish-ochreous tinged whitish towards torn us, on 
upper half of termen dark brown on outer half. Hindwings light 
grey, costal third ochreous-yellowish, towards apex expanded 
downwards; cilia ochreous-whitish, at apex tinged grey. 
2 . 25 mm. Forewings costa posteriorly rather more sinuate ; 
brownish-ochreous reticulated throughout with dark brown ; central 
fascia indicated by light violet-brownish suffusion towards costa 
and dorsum and edged by dark striae, nearly of even width but 
expanded near dorsum ; costal patch indicated by narrow brown 
suffusion. Hindwings light ochreons-yellowish, tinged grey near 
dorsum ; cilia ochreous-whitish, a thickened spot of greyish scales 
in costal cilia towards apex. 
Kashmir, Srinagar, 5200 feet. May, June ( Fletcher ) ; 9 ex. 
1 ^, 1 ?). 
Pseudatteria metacapna, n. sp. 
$ $ . 28-29 mm. Head black, face and orbits white. Palpi 
black, second joint internally white except towards apex. Thorax 
blue-black, patagia edged white. Abdomen black, segmontal 
margins white. Fore wings suboblong, eoHa anteriorly moderately 
arched, termen rounded, rather oblique; deep orange; a moderate 
blue-black band round costa and termen with narrow ochreous- 
whitish bars as follows, viz. 8 simple costal, one trifurcate before 
apex but middle fork usually broken, one trifurcate below apex 
but upper fork usually broken, one furcate below this but one or 
both forks sometimes broken, and one on tornus ; sometimes 3 or 
4 variable blackish dots beneath posterior half of costal portion, 
and 1 or 2 before lower part of terminal: cilia purple-grey, barred 
ochreous-white on markings. Hindwings <$ dull smoky-fulvous, 
dorsum suffused dark fuscous, a dark fuscous expanding streak 
beneath cell from near base to ^ of wing, followed by two round 
dark fuscous spots beneath posterior portion of cell, two small 
spot-s transversely placed between these, several small spots in cell 
obscured by smoky suffusion, 4 or 5 in upper part of wing poste¬ 
riorly, and a series of 8 nearly equal semicircular blackish marginal 
spots round apex and | of termen ; 5 deep orange, dorsum suffused 
grey, 2 or 3 small blackish-grey spots beneath cell anteriorly, and 
1 or 2 towards termen beneath apex, marginal spots as in ; cilia 
dark fuscous, ochreous-whitish bars between m rginal spots. 
Colombia, San Antonio, 8000 feet, a pair taken in cop. Quite 
peculiar in the smoky hindwings of <5 . I note that P. potcimites 
Wals. is not distinguishable from mimica Feld., and must fall as a 
svnonvm ; it occurs from Colombia through the Isthmus to Mexico. 
