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EXOTIC M1CROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Glyphipteryx oxytricha, n. sp. 
c? . 12 mm. Head, thorax bronzy-grey, a fine white line above 
eyes, face suffused whitish-ochreous. Palpi with four whorls of 
black white-tipped scales, each produced beneath into a long acute 
fascicle of hairs, terminal joint above these white lined black. 
Forewings termen rather oblique, slightly sinuate; light brownish- 
ochreous, with numerous bright violet-leaden-metallic black-edged 
spots, viz., about 10 along costa, these dotted whitish-ochreous 
on costal edge, 3 series of 5 or 6 each on dorsal half of wing, 
partially suffused together with fuscous, several in median portion 
of disc, also partially suffused together, and about 8 irregularly 
arranged towards termen, these partially connected by two longi¬ 
tudinal blackish spots: cilia pale greyish, a suffused blackish 
antemedian shade. Hindwings trapezoidal, dark fuscous ; cilia as 
in forewings. 
Fatal, Weenen, January {Thomasset ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
TINEIDiE. 
TINISSA Walk. 
Head rough-haired ; ocelli posterior; tongue short. Antennae |, 
$ more or less strongly ciliated, scape moderate, stout, with pecten 
of dense scales. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint 
densely tufted with rough projecting hairscales beneath, terminal 
joint as long as second, moderate, sometimes thickened with rough 
scales anteriorly, pointed. Maxillary palpi rather short, porrected, 
loosely penicillate at apex. Posterior tibiae long, rough-scaled 
above, with dense tuft of scales towards apex. Forewings 2 from |, 
7 to costa, sometimes 7 and 8 or 8 and 9 stalked, 11 from towards 
base. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia f-; 2-7 separate, 5 and 6 
approximated at base. 
Proper eharacters not hitherto published. Allied to Scardia. 
Tinissa baliomicta, n. sp. 
9 . 26 mm. Head whity-brownish. Palpi second joint dark 
fuscous with central spot of whitish-ochreous suffusion, apex and 
tips of hairs white, terminal joint white with base and median ring 
blackish. Thorax pale fuscous spotted dark fuscous, posterior 
extremity and tips of tegulae whitish. Fore wings elongate, costa 
posteriorly gently arched, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 
stalked; fuscous, closely strewn small dark fuscous spots in regular 
transverse and longitudinal series, irregularly spotted white and 
ochreous-whitish between these; a straight rather oblique white 
stria from dorsum towards base to near costa; two or three more 
distinct small white spots about fold before middle of wing ; two 
white striae from costa about | reaching half across wing: cilia 
whitish.mixed fuscous, irregularly barred white suffusion. Hinrl- 
