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EXOTIC MICROLEPJDOPTEKA. 
Xylodryas cryeranthes, n. sp. 
<J. 31mm. Head ochreous-whitish sprinkled dark fuscous. 
Palpi whitish, second joint dark brown except apex, terminal joint 
with a few black scales. Thorax whitish partially tinged brownish, 
scattered dark fuscous scales. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, 
costa posteriorly moderately arched, termen hardly perceptibly 
sinuate, slightly oblique ; rather light brown, some scattered 
blackish scales, veins partially marked with black streaks ; costa 
slenderly blackish from base to beyond middle, with 4 irregular 
projections or thickenings, beneath this irregular whitish suffusion 
extended as a costal patch to | and thence beneath costa to near 
apex ; some black suffusion on bases of veins 10 and 11 ; three 
small blackish spots on costa towards apex : cilia brown, base spotted 
whitish suffusion, a median line slightly mixed blackish. Hindwings 
light fuscous ; cilia light brownish slightly mixed blackish, obscurely 
barred whitish. 
Dutch New Guinea, Oetakwa R., 3000 feet ( Meek ) ; 1 ex. 
Ptochoryctis inviolata, n. sp. 
$ . 20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white. Antennae dark grey, 
pectinations 5. Forewings moderate, dilated, termen slightly 
rounded, oblique ; 3 and 4 stalked ; glossy white ; costal edge 
blackish towards base ; 3 or 4 minute blackish specks before lower 
part of termen : cilia white. Hindwings whitish ; cilia white. 
Bombay, Ivarwar, June (Maxwell); 1 ex. 
CAPNOLCCHA, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli small, inferior ; tongue short. 
Antennae f, in ciliated, basal joint moderate, without pecten. 
Labial palpi moderate, recurved, slender, smooth-scaled, second 
joint hardly reaching base of antennae, terminal joint much shorter 
than second, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae 
rough-scaled above. Forewings 2 from somewhat beyond middle, 
3 from -t, 4 from angle, 5 approximated, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to 
termen, 8 to costa, 11 from beyond middle. Hindwings 1, ovate, 
cilia 4 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 equidistant, parallel, 6 and 7 short- 
stalked. 
Allied to Ptochorvctis. 
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Capnolocha praenivalis, n. sp. 
S $ . 25-26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark fuscous. Forewings 
moderate, costa gently arched, termen obliquely rounded; dark 
fuscous, in d broil zy- tinged; in $.a suffused white apical spot: 
cilia fuscous, on termen with median third white, in $ more 
distinctly. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Dutch New Guinea, Setekwa R., 3000 feet ( 5 ); British New 
Guinea, Rook I. ( 8 ); these sexes, though not taken together, 
appear undoubtedly nonspecific. 
