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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDGPTERA. 
Lactura platyorma, n. sp. 
$. 19 mm. Head yellow. Palpi extremely short. Thorax 
crimson-purple, anterior third yellow. Abdomen light ochreous- 
orange. Forewings moderate, apex rounded, termen rather 
obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked; brownish-crimson; a yellow 
costal streak from base, triangularly expanded before middle, 
becoming very narrow in middle, then rapidly dilated and forming 
a broad fascia round apex and termen, its anterior edge with 
obtuse reentrant angle in middle : cilia yellow. Hindwings 4 and 5 
stalked; light ochreous-rosy, apical fourth suffused pale yellow; 
cilia light ochreous-rosy, round apical area pale yellow. 
Pritish Hew Guixea, Ivumasi P, (Meek) ; 1 ex. 
Lactura ophioglossa, n. sp. 
S • 33-35 mm. Head orange, face yellow suffused white 
centrally. Palpi extremely short, orange. Tongue very short 
and weak. Tnorax purplish-crimson,> shoulders whitish. Fore¬ 
wings moderate, posteriorly dilated, termen obliquely rounded; 
7 and 8 stalked; purplish-crimson ; costa narrowly orange from 
base to beyond middle, with a white spot at base beneath, and a 
white fusiform expansion beneath from near base’ to near -|; two 
small whitish spots towards dorsum before and beyond middle; 
apical t orange, edge of groundcolour running from middle of 
costa to dorsum near tornus and obtusely angulated below middle, 
jirojecting from above middle a strong furcate streak whose 
branches run to costa and termen near apex, and which has on 
each side at base a blotch of white suffusion : cilia orange. Hind- 
wings 4 and 5 connate or nearly approximated at base; orange; 
cilia orange. 
Hutch Xew Guixea, TTeyland Mts., 6000 feet, December, 
January (Pratt) ; 7 ex. 
Lactura coleoxantha, n. sp. 
<5 . 40-42 mm. Head bright yellow. Palpi short, yellow mixed 
crimson. Thorax crimson, shoulders yellow. Forewings elongate- 
triangular, apex rounded, termen rather strongly oblique; 7 sepa¬ 
rate ; crimson, tinged grey in disc, and suffused grey towards 
margins of markings; markings bright yellow; an irregular costal 
band from base to apex, almost or quite interrupted in middle, 
including a crimson spot near base and a dot beyond it, expanded 
towards apex and marked 3 crimson dots round apical margin ; 
a small spot on or near dorsum at -|; a semioval wavy-edged 
blotch occupying lower half of termen, its terminal edge marked 
3 crimson dots : cilia pale yellow. Hindwings 4 and 5 connate ; 
whitish-ochreous; an undefined streak of slight rosy suffusion 
above middle on posterior ; a patch of light rosy suffusion 
occupying dorsal area except near base; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Hutch Hew Guixea, bVeyland Mts., 6000 feet, December, 
January (Pratt); 5 ex. 
