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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
gnathos forming two slender strap-shaped obtuse processes, hairy 
beneath ; valves long, considerably exceeding these, narrow, 
gradually upcurved and attenuated, acute, shortly hairy beneath. 
Pore wings rather elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded- 
obtuse, tcrrnen obliquely rounded; purplish-bronzy-fuscous ; a 
suffused glossy pale greyish-ochreous terminal band : cilia light 
greyish-ochreous. Hindwings thinly clothed with dark grey hair- 
scales (prismatic-hyaline beneath these), margin round apex some¬ 
times tinged whitish-fuscous; cilia greyish. Forewings beneath 
with vein 12 clothed with rather long depressed hairscales from 
base to near extremity (without naked area beneath it); a fringe 
of short appressed hairs on submedian fold from base to |, beneath 
this fringe a whitish-ochreous pointed streak : discal area from 
near base to § wholly clothed with dense rather dark fuscous 
hairscales. 
Costa Eica, Orosi, 4000 feet ; 4 ex, 
Urodus niphatma, n. sp. 
c?. 36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax fuscous. Abdomen rather 
hairy ; uncus rather short, hardly curved, obtuse-pointed: valves 
long, narrow, becoming cylindrical and strongly upcurved poste¬ 
riorly, acute. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; purplish-bronzy-fuscous, 
markings suffused, whitish ; a fasciate transverse blotch beyond |, 
not reaching margins, formed of 4 confluent spots, median largest, 
submedian smallest and posterior to others ; a bisinuate transverse 
fasciate blotch at |, not reaching margins ; a transverse-oval spot 
before termen in middle : cilia fuscous. Plindwings grey-whitish, 
posterior t pale grey; cilia light fuscous. Forewings beneath with 
fringe of depressed long hairscales along vein 12 from base to near 
extremity, and rather narrow naked space beneath it. Hindwings 
with long expansible whitish hairpencil from base of costa lying 
beneath forewings. 
Colombia, Mt. Tolima, 10,000 feet; 1 ex. 
TJrodns hypsicrates, n. sp. 
<S . 32 mm. Head, palpi, thorax bluish-grey. Genitalia : uncus 
short, downturned, pointed ; valves very long, narrow, strongly 
recurved posteriorly and incurved at apex, acute, with long rough 
projecting scales above from base to curve. Forewings elongate, 
costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 
purplish-bronzy-grey, markings suffused, whitish; a cruciform 
blotch occupying disc at ; a strongly bisinuate fascia at |, 
expanded towards costa but leaving costal edge dark, connected 
slenderly on costa and strongly on dorsum with a terminal fascia 
broadest on upper half : cilia grey. Hindwings whitish, on apical 
third suffused pale grey ; cilia whitish, round apex and upper half 
of termen light grey. Forewings beneath with depressed fringe of 
