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above, tibiae above and beneath with strong white expanded post¬ 
median tuft of scales mixed and speckled dark fuscous, torewings 
narrow, attenuated from near base to apex ; pale greyish irrorated 
dark grey; in one example a suffused blackish-grey dash on fold 
towards base; stigmata represented by small white dots, plical and 
second discal edged anteriorly by dark fuscous dots, plical very 
obliquely before first discal; a fine angulated transverse whitish 
line towards apex : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, two or three lines 
of dark fuscous specks towards base. Hindwings grey; cilia 
whitish-ochreous. 
N. Coorg, Somwarpet, 3000 feet, April ( Newcome ); 2 ex. 
Persicoptila heroica, n. sp. 
cJ $ . 14-15 mm. Head, thorax whitish-ochreous, $ pale 
greyish-ochreous, face and palpi whitish, eyes crimson. Posterior 
tibiae whitish, above with triangular light rosy median and larger 
ante-apical tufts tipped black, latter with an apical brighter crimson- 
rose spot above a black bar, from base of tibia above in a large 
and very long expansible whitish-ochreous hairpencil reaching to 
middle of tarsus. Forewings whitish-ochreous suffused pale 
pink, 2 greyish-pink, costal edge whitish ; stigmata cloudy, dark 
fuscous, first discal somewhat before plical, less marked or obsolete ; 
a slightly inwards-oblique dark fuscous strigula from costa towards 
apex across wing, extended in cilia to apex, preceded by faint 
whitish tinge, apical area beyond this in 2 more rosy : cilia whitish- 
ochreous suffused pale pink. Hindwings ochreous-whifish-grey; 
cilia whitish-ochreous, with faint pinkish tinge. 
Hew Hebrides, Tanna, Ambrym, Efate, June to September 
{ Buxton ) ; 3 ex. Type Brit. Mus. Close to the Samoan cesthetica , 
but distinguished by bright rosy colouring of posterior tibiae. 
Microcolona leucosticta, n. sp. 
c?. 10 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi white, basal ^ and sub- 
apical ring of second joint, and base and subapical ring of terminal 
dark grey. Forewings light olive-fuscous, costal and apical areas 
suffused dark grey; a white elongate blotch on base of dorsum; a 
dark grey median streak from base to end of cell; stigmata raised, 
black, ringed white, plical obliquely beyond first discal, followed by 
a dark fuscous elongate mark on dorsum terminated by a white dot; 
an elongate dark fuscous mark on costa beyond middle, preceded by 
an indistinct whitish dot, and followed by a shorter white elongate 
mark; a white dot on termen towards apex, and one at apex : cilia 
light grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Madras, Coonoor, bred October from larva in fruits of Psidium 
( Myrtacece ) ( Bao ); 1 ex. The white basal blotch easily distin¬ 
guishes this from pycnitis and similar species. 
Microcolona technographa, n. sp. 
6 2 • 7-8 mm. Head white, crown tinged grey. Palpi white, 
second joint dark grey except apex, terminal joint with grey sub- 
