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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
MELXTONYMPHA, n. g. 
Head loosely rough-haired on crown, face smooth; ocelli inferior; 
tongue developed. Antennae |, scape elongate, with pecten. 
Labial palpi short, porrected, with appressed scales, terminal joint 
as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, slender, filiform, 
porrected. Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled. Porewings 16 furcate, 
2 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 9 and 10 from end of 
cell, secondary cell well-marked, 11 from before middle. Hind- 
wings slightly over 1 , elongate-ovate, almost pointed, cilia 
2-5 remote, parallel, 2 from | of cell, 3 from angle, 6 and 7 long- 
stalked. 
Between Cerostomci and Psychromnestra, and related to Euceratici. 
Melitonympha heteranla, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white. Porewings elongate, 
apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; glossy white ; a 
light ochreous-yellowish stripe beneath costa from base to costa 
at | ; a similar stripe along fold from base to tornus, continued 
as a slender streak along termen to apex : cilia white. Hind- 
wings ochreous-grey-whitish ; cilia white. 
Texas, Alpine, 6000 feet, May; 1 ex. 
Cerostoma leptaula, n. sp. 
2 • 29 mm. Head white. Palpi white, slightly sprinkled dark 
fuscous, tuft longer than terminal joint. Thorax white sprinkled 
dark fuscous. Forewings very elongate, apex obtuse-pointed, 
termen very obliquely rounded ; grey, dorsal and terminal areas 
irrorated white and sprinkled dark fuscous ; costal third blackish 
from base to about |, suffused posteriorly, beneath this a somewhat 
lighter grey streak with some white scales, whence rise white lines 
along veins 4-10, stronger ones on 7 and 8 : cilia white, rows of 
dark fuscous and black specks. Hindwings grey-whitish, apical 
area suffused grey ; cilia white. 
Texas, Alpine, 5000 feet, April; 1 ex. 
H Y PON O MEUTIDiE. 
0KINYMPHA, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. 
Antennae |, in S serrulate, minutely ciliated, scape moderate, with 
pecten. Labial palpi short, drooping, with appressed scales, filiform. 
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae with appressed scales. 
Porewings 1 h furcate, 2 from towards angle, 4 absent, 7 to termen, 
8-10 approximated from near angle of cell ; 11 from somewhat 
beyond middle, sinuate beneath stigmatium. Hindwings 1, elon¬ 
gate-ovate, cilia |; 4 absent, 2-7 parallel. 
Allied to Prays. 
