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EXOTIC MICROLEPIBOPTERA. 
Phyllocnistis symphanes, n. sp. 
<3 2 • 4 mm. Head, palpi, thorax silvery-white. Forewings 
white, with pale violet reflections ; a blue-grey line along fold from 
base to middle of wing, above this a patch of pale yellowish suffu¬ 
sion except at base, dorsal area below it suffused pale yellowish; a 
hardly curved slightly outwards-oblique dark grey line from middle 
of costa to end of plical line; a hardly curved somewhat inwards- 
oblique dark grey line from |- of costa to dorsum, preceded by 
slight yellowish suffusion, and apical area beyond it wholly suffused 
pale yellowish ; a rather pear-shaped apical black spot, anteriorly 
edged whitish preceded by a small grey direct strigula from costa: 
cilia white, within a curved dark grey line from beneath apex to 
tornus suffused pale yellowish, three oblique dark grey lines above 
costa and three short ones radiating from apex. Hindwings and 
cilia white. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred September ( Maxwell ); 4 ex. Larva 
mining in August an irregularly wandering gallery under upper 
cuticle of leaf of Aglaia litioralis (Meliacece), two in each leaf; 
excrement liquid, forming a thin black line in middle of gallery ; 
cocoon in end of gallery, puckering the leaf, white, oval (Maxwell). 
Phyllocnistis phrixopa, n. sp. 
c 3 2 • 4-5 mm. Head, palpi, thorax shining white. Forewings 
shining white; blue-grey supramedian and submedian lines from 
base to middle posteriorly enclosing a patch of pale brassy-yellow 
suffusion ; a slightly oblique dark grey strigula from costa beyond 
middle, pointing to lower end of a rather iilwards-oblique dark 
gre}^ line from | of costa to dorsum; apical area beyond this 
obscurely suffused pale yellowish; a triangular black apical spot, 
preceded by a white dot edged anteriorly dark grey: cilia white, 
within a curved dark grey line from beneath apex to tornus suffused 
pale yellowish, lower part of this line tending to be furcate, three 
oblique dark grey lines above costa, two short diverging from apex, 
one direct beneath it, and one short from dorsal end of transverse 
line. Hindwings and cilia white. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred August ( Maxwell ); 8 ex. Larva tapering 
strongly posteriorly, transparent greenish, head smaller than 2, 
brownish; mines a broad irregularly Avandering gallery under 
upper cuticle of young leaf of Cctsearia esculenta ( Flacourtiacece ), 
several in same leaf; excrement liquid, invisible ; cocoon in end 
of gallery, puckering leaf (Maxwell). 
Phyllocnistis exaeta, n. sp. 
5. 5 mm. Head, palpi, thorax silvery-white. Forewings snow- 
white ; a fuscous supramedian line from base to middle, beneath 
posterior half of this a pale yellow elongate patch edged beneath 
by a dark fuscous line not extended towards base ; a rather oblique 
dark fuscous strigula from costa beyond middle, directed to below 
middle of a slightly curved somewhat inwards-oblique dark fuscous 
