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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
greyish. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked ; light grey, 
faintly mottled darker ; cilia whitish, a light grey subbasal streak. 
Colombia, Mt. Tolima, 12,500 feet, December; 1 ex. Rear 
prceposita. 
Phtheochroa ophryodes, n. sp. 
$ . 19 mm. Head white, crown tinged pinkish, collar grey. 
Palpi whitish, second joint light pinkish-grey except towards apex. 
Thorax light- bluish-grey, anterior edge tinged whitish. Forewings 
slightly dilated, costa with strong projecting patches of rough scales 
about ^ and terrnen obliquely rounded ; 3 and 4 approximated 
towards base, 7 and 8 closely approximated at base, 7 to costa ; 
ochreous-whitish, with white reflections, faintly mottled pale grey; 
a fuscous patch occupying basal and dorsal area, its edge running 
from i of costa obliquely outwards, then irregularly above fold to 
near tornus ; a fuscous ring with short anterior projection on end 
of cell ; a semioval spot of grey mottling on middle of costa ; 
a streak of fuscous and grey mottling from costa to terrnen obliquely 
before apex : cilia white, on costa grey. Hindwings 3 and 4 
connate, 6 and 7 approximated to middle, then anastomosing at 
a point; grey ; cilia light grey becoming whitish outwardly. 
Costa Pica, La Trinidad, Vulkan Irazu, 4000 feet; 1 ex. 
TRACHYBYRSXS, n.g. 
‘Labial palpi very long, porrected, second joint clothed with 
dense rough scales above and beneath, terminal joint rather 
short, cylindrical. Tongue obsolete. Antennae <S shortly ciliated. 
Thorax with posterior crest. Forewings with tufts of scales; 
2 from towards angle, 7 to terrnen, 11 from middle. Hindwings 
3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 slightly approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 
An early form. 
Trachybyrsis euglypta, n. sp. 
S . 30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light yellow-brownish, tip of 
palpi whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, 
terrnen nearly straight, rather oblique; glistening pale grey, 
partially lilac-tinged, irregularly scattered suffused yellow-brownish 
strigulae ; an irregular yellow-brown antemedian fascia parallel to 
terrnen, marked in disc with a black dash, on costa expanded and 
mixed black and with a similar narrow arm to costa at | ; a narrow 
yellow-brown streak from beyond middle of costa to tornus, 
preceded by two tufts in disc, and separated by a pale partially 
rough streak from a yellow-brown fascia from f of costa to lower 
part of terrnen, its lower poTtion indefinite posteriorly, its costal 
edge marked dark grey; two small yellow-brown spots on costa 
towards apex,- dark grey on costa: cilia yellow-brownish. Hind¬ 
wings grey obscurely mottled darker, apex and apical part of 
costa mottled whitish, terminal edge whitish ; cilia light yellowish, 
a greyish basal shade. 
Belgiax Coxgo, Hiansa, Ruanda, August; 1 ex. (T. A. Barns). 
