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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
grey strignlation on lower and posterior margin of first segment; 
second segment grey tinged blackish anteriorly, cut by a transverse 
whitish line of two crescents : cilia white barred grey, a blackish 
dorsal scaletooth at Hindwings and cilia grey, a white dot at 
apex of third segment, on dorsum some black scales near base and 
a black scale-projection in middle. 
Colombia, Ht. Socorro, 12,500 feet, July; 1 ex. 
Platyptilia thyellopa, n. sp. 
d 2. 25-28 mm. Head whitish. Palpi 3, brownish, tip and 
rough scales of upper surface white. Thorax whity-brownish. 
Pore wings segments broad, termen of first slightly concave, oblique, 
of second rather oblique; light brownish, irrorated whitish in 
disc ; costa suffused dark reddish-fuscous from base to posterior 
blotch, dorsum narrowly suffused dark reddish-fuscous towards 
base ;• a suffused dark reddish-fuscous spot in disc at a smaller 
one above dorsum obliquely before it, and larger one on dorsum 
beyond middle ; a triangular dark fuscous blotch on costa before 
cleft, its apex produced as an oblique suffused dark fuscous fascia 
to dorsum before tornus ; first segment ochreous-tinged, with more 
or less developed white suffusion towards costa on anterior half, a 
variably developed narrow suffused white fascia crossing both 
segments near termen, obsolete on margins of segments, terminal 
area beyond this more or less infuscated : cilia whitish tinged grey 
or brownish, on termen a blackish subbasal line, dark grey patches 
at angles of segments, dark grey bars on dorsum at and 4. 
Hindwings brownish-grey ; cilia light greyish, on termen a darker 
subbasal line, on dorsum of third segment a group of scattered 
blackish points towards base, and a strong triangular tooth of 
brownish black-tipped scales slightly before middle. 
Colombia, Mt. Tolima, 10,500-12,500 feet, October to December;. 
3 ex. Allied to carduidactylci. 
Platyptilia philorectis, n. sp. 
<S . 41 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi 2, porrected, with tolerably 
appressed scales, whitish, second joint suffused fuscous, terminal 
joint slender, obtuse. Thorax dark, fuscous, extreme tips of scales 
on tegulae minutely whitish, a white projecting tuft at apex of 
metathorax. Abdomen brownish streaked laterally dark fuscous, 
on each side of back at base a small ochreous-white tuft edged 
blackish externally. Porewings cleft to -i, apex subprominent; 
fuscous irrorated dark fuscous; an irregular-edged whitish patch 
(composed of two subconfluent longitudinal streaks) occupying 
costal | of first segment from base to near apex, a slender pro¬ 
jection from middle of its posterior edge running to apex: cilia 
dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia grey, on dorsum 
of third segment with a series of fuscous black-tipped scales densest 
at base and becoming gradually obsolete towards apex. 
Peru, Ancles, 12,000 feet; 1 ex. 1STot in good condition, but a 
singular species. 
