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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
and some blackish scales margining it beneath and forming two 
indentations; a suffused white spot beneath costa at ^ ; two small 
blackish spots connected and partially surrounded with white above 
posterior streak towards tornus, and two small blackish spots 
towards costa posteriorly, between which an obtusely angulated 
white transverse streak crosses wing: cilia grey, round apex 
suffusedly dotted white at base, with dark grey subbasal shade. 
Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 
New Hebrides, Efate, Espiritu Santo, July, August ( Buxton ); 
2 ex. Type Brit. Mus. 
Pyroderces paroditis, n. sp. 
£. 9 mm. Head reddish-ochreous, face whitish. Palpi whitish, 
second joiut with three reddish-ochreous rings, terminal with 
reddish-ochreous submedian and dark grey subapical rings. 
Antennae white ringed dark fuscous. Thorax reddish-ochreous, 
a zigzag white median bar. Eorewings reddish-ochreous; a slender 
basal and four irregular rather oblique ochreous-white fasciae with 
some irregularly strewn black scales, last fascia divided into 
irregular costal and dorsal spots; from costal spot a sinuate line 
of black scales runs to costa before apex, extremitjr edged above by 
a white spot, a small white spot at tornus : cilia whitish-grey, 
basal half reddish-ochreous, above apex a short erect blackish bar, 
beneath it a downwards-directed fine blackish hook. Hindwings 
rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Eiji, Lautoka, September ( Greenwood ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Persicoptila rhipidaspis, n. sp. 
(3*. 14 mm. Head whitish, sidetufts suffused grey. Palpi 
white, tip of second joint dark grey. Thorax whitish, inner half 
of tegulas ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Posterior tibiae 
whitish, mostly occupied by very large expanded fan-shaped tuft of 
long pale ochreous hair-scales, whitish at tips, with two blackish 
lines beneath tips, apex of tibiae suffused pale ochreous, tarsi pale 
ochreous, tips of joints white. Eorewings narrow, slenderly atten¬ 
uated from near base to apex; pale ochreous irrorated brownish, 
fold infuscated; an oblique streak of pale suffusion from costa 
about middle; a fine angulated whitish line at |, sending a whitish 
terminal line to apex: cilia whitish-ochreous, slightly speckled 
brownish towards base. Hindwings and cilia whitish-yellowish. 
N. Coorg, Somwarpet, 3000 feet, April ( Newcome ); 1 ex. The 
specimen is preserved in what is probably its natural attitude, the 
two hindlegs projecting obliquely under the wings in front of the 
shoulders, and the apex of forewings strongly recurved beneath. 
* 
Persicoptila phronimopis, n. sp. 
S $. 12-13 mm. Head grey-whitish, face whiter. Palpi 
white, second joint with fine grey subapical ring. Thorax light 
grey, apex of tegulse whitish. Posterior legs white, tiDged grey 
