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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Dichomeris physocoma, n. sp. 
c? . 13 mm. Head violet-grey, sidetufts forming an expansible 
tuft in front. Palpi dark grey, second joint broadly triangularly 
expanded with dense projecting scales above and beneath, anterior 
edge whitish-grey, terminal joint whitish posteriorly. Thorax 
violet-grey. Forewings violet-grey ; a small whitish-ochreous spot 
on costa before | ; minute blackish marginal dots round apical part 
of costa and ter men : cilia violet-grey, small whitish basal dots on 
marginal dots. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Sierra Leone, Habang, at light, September (. Hargreaves ); 1 ex. 
(Brit. Hus.). 
Dichomeris syndyas, n. sp. 
$ $ . 20-21 mm. Head, thorax light grey irrorated white. 
Palpi second joint dark grey, tuft large, subtriangular, apical edge 
white, terminal joint white, anterior edge dark fuscous. Forewings 
termen obliquely rounded ; light grey partially or wholly suffused 
white and slightly sprinkled dark fuscous; costa more or less 
strongly and suffusedly mottled dark fuscous, and sometimes grey 
strigulation towards dorsum and termen ; an irregular dark fuscous 
spot on fold about | ; a dark grey transverse blotch in disc at ^ ; 
first discal stigma represented by two approximated obliquely 
placed dark fuscous dots, second by a transverse mark ; a marginal 
series of small dark fuscous dots round apex and termen : cilia 
light grey, irrorated white. Hindwings light grey, cilia paler. 
Asia Minor, Radde ; 2 ex. 
Gaesa semnias, n. sp. 
2 . 18 mm. Head, thorax slaty-fuscous. Palpi second joint 
dark fuscous, apical margin fuscous speckled whitish, terminal joint 
whitish irrorated dark fuscous. Forewings slightly dilated, termen 
slightly sinuate, rather oblique ; slaty-fuscous suffusedly irrorated 
darker ; anterior half of costa dark fuscous with about 8 ocbreous- 
whitish dots ; stigmata minute, grey-whitish, plical rather obliquely 
before first discal: cilia slaty-fuscous. Hindwings grey, veins 
darker; cilia grey. 
Bihar, Ranchi, 2000 feet, August ( Fletcher ); 1 ex. 
0RS0DYTXS, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts somewdiat raised; ocelli 
posterior; tongue developed. Antennae basal joint moderate, 
without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint 
thickened with^dense scales, roughly projecting above on apical 
half, terminal joint as long as second, with scales loosely projecting 
posteriorly on basal half, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, 
filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae rough-scaled above. 
Fore wings 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 
11 from beyond middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, termen slightly 
sinuate, cilia ; with cubital pecten ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 slightly 
approximated, 6 and 7 nearly approximated at base. 
Type marginata Wals., Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1891, 99. Allied 
to Cymotricha. An example from Hjala, Sierra Leone, April 
(Hcirgreci ves). 
