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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
patch suffused dark fuscous : cilia greyish. Hindwings and cilia 
light grey ; in <5* a few long hairs from beneath base of costa. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred August ( Maxwell) ; 2 ex. Larva bright 
green, on 5 to 11 or 12 a lateral row of dark purple spots so close 
as to form a nearly continuous band, ultimately expanding so as to 
leave only a dorsal green line, when full-fed the purple area much 
lighter; mines in July at first an irregular gallery often crossing 
itself, then a very regular and nearly round spiral, dotted with 
excrement and ending in a slightly wider blotch, in leaf of Hymeno- 
dictyon obovatum (Rubiacece ); one leaf seen with 11 blotches ; 
cocoon oval, fiattish, reddish-brown, on surface of leaf. Quite a 
peculiar species. 
Nepticula heteranthes, n. sp. 
$ . 3 mm. Head, thorax whitish-ochreous. Antennal eyecaps 
ochreous-yellow, beneath them externally a black mark. Pore- 
wings blackish; base whitish-ochreous ; a somewhat oblique irre¬ 
gular whitish fascia before middle ; a hardly oblique irregular 
silvery-white fascia at J : cilia white, an antemedian line of black 
specks. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Bombay, Karwar, August (Maxwell); 1 ex. Also very distinct. 
ELACHISTIDiE. 
Elachista endobela, n. sp. 
c?. 7 mm. Head grey on crown, face and forehead white. 
Palpi white, terminal joint with three grey rings. Thorax dark 
fuscous sprinkled whitish. Porewings 4 present, 8 absent, 9 
separate ; dark fuscous ; a blackish median streak from near base 
to J-, costal space above this forming a pale ochreous band 
irregularly sprinkled or mixed dark fuscous, its apex extended as 
an oblique projection to middle of disc ; plical stigma blackish, 
irregularly edged pale ochreous; a pale ochreous elongate blotch 
with convex waved edge extending along apical third of costa, 
enclosing an oblique dark fuscous strigula from costa towards apex: 
cilia grey, round apex whitish-ochreous with a subbasal line of 
black specks forming a minute black dot at apex. Hindwings dark 
grey ; cilia grey. 
Bombay, Karwar, bred September (Maxwell); 1 ex. Larva 
tapering posteriorly, green, head yellow ; mines in August a large 
irregular blotch under upper cuticle of leaf of bamboo (Bambusa) ; 
pupa exposed, attached by tail, lying prostrate on leaf, a dorsal 
ridge and subdorsal dentate keel on either side tapering off poste¬ 
riorly, yellowish-brown striated fuscous. Very distinct, but allied 
to nearcha. 
PTEROPHORID2E. 
Oxyptilus^maleficus, n. sp. 
<S . 12 mm. Head, thorax ochreous-fuscous speckled whitish- 
ochreous. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated fuscous, terminal 
