TINEIDAE. 
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wings dark purple-grey ; cilia whitish, a faint greyish subbasal 
line. 
Philippines, Mt. Makiling, Luzon ( Baker ); 1 ex. The posterior 
legs of this specimen are broken. 
Tinissa heterograpta, n. sp. 
$ . 23-25 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, hairs on crown partially 
infuscated. Palpi whitish, second joint with lateral dark fuscous 
blotch enclosing a whitish spot, terminal joint with basal and 
supramedian dark fuscous bands. Thorax fuscous, in one example 
mottled whitish. Forewings elongate, termen slightly rounded, 
oblique; 7 and 8 stalked; fuscous, strewn coarse dark fuscous 
striguise and small spots, more or less strigulated and spotted 
whitish between these; costal edge suffused dark fuscous, with 
three whitish strigulse towards middle, a dot beyond these, and 
others at | and before the apex; white dots on dorsum at | and 
before and beyond tornus: cilia fuscous, slender whitish bars on 
these dots. Hind wings dark purplish-bronzy-fuscous ; cilia greyish. 
New Britain, Talesea, January, March ( Eichhorn ) ; 2 ex. 
Readily distinguished from eumetrota by the more oblique termen 
of forewings. 
Myrmecozela caustocoma, n. sp. 
c S $ . 17-20 mm. Head, thorax dark brown, hairs of face 
yellow-brownish. Palpi yellow-ochreous, second joint with dark 
brown lateral streak. Forewings elongate, costa rather strongly 
arched towards apex, termen rather oblique ; pale ochreous, small 
scattered dark brown strigulse; a dark brown band from base 
along costa to |, thence continued as a moderate oblique fascia to 
tornus, broader downwards and posteriorly suffused; a dark brown 
band occupying dorsal half at base, gradually narrowed to near 
tornus, where it almost coalesces with preceding ; a short dark 
brown streak on apical end of costa; some dark brown terminal 
dots : cilia pale ochreous, brownish bars and a subbasal line more 
or less expressed, especially above apex and on tornus. Hindwings 
grey, thinly scaled, subhyaline towards base; cilia whitish- 
ochreous, a brownish subbasal shade. 
New Britain, Talesea, March ( Eichhorn); 2 ex. 
Monopis prosaritkma, n. sp. 
5 . 16 mm. Head yellow-whitish, hairs of lower margin of 
face projecting in a tuft as long as palpi. Palpi second joint 
clothed with rough spatulate hairscales, dark grey, terminal joint 
yellow-whitish. Antennae ($) ochreous-whitish, moderately 
fasciculate-ciliated (1). Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous- 
yellowish, dorsally somewhat infuscated posteriorly. Forewings 
moderate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded ; 2 and 3 out of 4, 7 separate, 8 and 9 very long-stalked, 
11 apparently from cell just before impression ; dark grey-purplish 
