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EXOTIC MICROLEFIDOPTERA. 
a blotch of fuscous suffusion resting on dorsum before middle ; a pale 
fuscous shade from costa at | to dorsum at angulated in middle, 
darker on dorsum ; pale fuscous suffusion towards termen, especially 
towards middle, and a darker fuscous suffused streak along termen: 
cilia fuscous, on costa and tornus whitish. Hindwings whitish ; 
cilia whitish, a light fuscous subbasal shade round apex and upper 
part of termen. 
Dutch New Guinea, Setekwa K.., 3000 feet, August {Meek ) ; 
1 ex. 
Paralecta iocapna, n. sp. 
cT. 31 mm. Head white, sides of face red-brown. Palpi white, 
second joint light brown except towards apex. Antennal ciliations 
2. Thorax whitish-ochreous, posterior half suffused violet-fuscous. 
Pore wings somewhat elongate-triangular, termen straight, rather 
oblique; 8 and 9 out of 7 ; pale greyish-ochreous, some scattered 
dark fuscous scales ; costa slenderly fulvous, beneath this is a 
rather thick attenuated white streak from base to middle, limited 
by suffused dark greyish-violet streak from base of dorsum extended 
slenderly beneath costal edge to near apex, with projections on 
dorsum and transverse vein ; adjoining this is a brownish patch 
extending on dorsum to middle and in disc to |* edge between 
these deeply concave: cilia dark fuscous-purple, basal-third whitish 
on termen. Hindwings and cilia whitish, apex greyish. 
Dutch New Guinea, Wey lands Mts., 6000 feet, January 
(. Pratt ); 1 ex. 
Scieropepla byblinopa, n. sp. 
3 . 23-24 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint suffused 
light ochreous-grey. Thorax whitish, shoulders grey. Porewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen nearly straight, 
rather strongly oblique; ochreous-grey ; a fine white costal streak 
from near base to |; a broad white median streak from base to 
end of cell, continued as a group of fine suffused lines to termen, 
wing below this wholly suffused white : cilia white. Hindwings 
grey-white ; cilia white. 
Madagascar, Antananarivo; 2 ex. A typical member of this 
characteristic Australian genus. 
GEMOKODES, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli inferior; tongue developed. 
Antennae i, in <3 simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. 
Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with appressed 
scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary 
palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae 
rough-scaled above. Porewings 2 curved from angle, 3 and 4 
approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hind¬ 
wings over 1, trapezoidal-ovate, termen somewhat sinuate, cilia | ; 
3 and 4 connate, 5 absent, 6 and 7 long-stalked. 
Differs from Ejpiinactis by costal termination of vein 7 and simple 
antennEe ; affinity uncertain. 
