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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
subcostal line beneath strigulae: cilia dark crimson mixed blackish 
points. Hind wings 3 and 4 stalked; dark grey; cilia grey, a 
darker subbasal shade. 
S. India, Travancore, bred February from Carey a arbor ea (Lecy - 
thidacece ) ; 2 ex. 
Eucosnta dryocarpa, n. sp. 
c? 14 mm., $ 19 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark grey, some¬ 
what whitish-speckled. Forewings costa without fold, termen 
nearly straight, somewhat oblique; dark grey, minutely whitish- 
speckled ; costa dark fuscous with pairs of whitish strigulae ; an 
irregular-edged oblique white spot on middle of dorsum, cut by a 
short strigula; a very irregular zigzag black streak in disc from 
beyond middle to rather near apex ; a black dash on fold towards 
extremity ; ocellus laterally margined by slender purplish-leaden 
streaks, posterior preceded by some slight black marking: cilia 
grey speckled whitish, basal third darker. Hindwings 3 and 4 
stalked ; rather dark fuscous, <S blackish-tinged towards dorsum ; 
cilia light grey, a darker basal shade, on dorsum grey-whitish. 
Hindwings 3 beneath with suffused blackish irroration towards 
dorsum and anterior half of costa. 
India, U.P., Mussoorie, 6500 feet, Dehra Dun, bred March from 
acorns of Quercus dilatata (. Forest Zoologist ); 2 ex. 
Polychrosis eoplecta, n. sp. 
<5 . 15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light brownish-ochreous mixed 
rosy-brownish, thoracic crest large, mixed dark fuscous. Forewings 
termen almost straight, rather oblique ; light brownish-ochreous, 
suffusedly mixed and strigulated crimson-brownish, tips of some 
scales whitish-iridescent; basal patch somewhat mixed dark brown 
and dark reddish, edge irregular, rather angulated in middle; upper 
half of' central fascia rather narrow, oblique, dark brown mixed 
dark reddish, lower part represented by an indistinct brown and 
reddish transverse spot from dorsum beyond middle, and a more 
distinctly outlined irregular transverse spot before tornus; a small 
dark reddish spot on costa before ; an inwards-oblique dark 
reddish and dark brown irregular streak from apex, and some 
slight strigulation towards middle of termen : cilia rosy-ochreous, 
two rosy-brown shades. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey, a 
grey subbasal shade. 
S. Ehodesia, Selukwe, December; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Polychrosis rhipidoma, n. sp. 
d . 11mm. Head grey-whitish, face mixed dark fuscous. Palpi 
grey, tip whitish. Thorax greenish-grey sprinkled dark fuscous. 
Forewings termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; whitish, 
irregularly striated transversely leaden-metallic ; markings dark 
olive-brown irregularly sprinkled black ; a short expansible fan of 
ochreous-whitish hairscales from base of costa; three irregular- 
