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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
approximated from end of cell, 11 almost from base; bright clear 
yellow; a dark purplish-bronzy-fuscous basal patch occupying 
nearly | of wing, edge straight or slightly concave, direct; a purple 
terminal fascia, 3 broadest on costa, $ more or less indented by 
groundcolour towards costa, anterior edge rather irregular, dark 
fuscous, with an oblique dark fuscous strigula to costa and often 
emitting 2 or 3 longitudinal dark fuscous strigulae on upper half, 
especially in $ , upper half of fascia mostly occupied by dark 
bronzy-brown oval blotch extending to apex, and with a suffused 
dark bronzy-brown spot on tornus : cilia greyish or grey-whitish, 
with about six lines of dark brown irroration. Hindwings dark 
coppery-grey; cilia grey. 
New Britain to Solomon Is., including New Ireland, New 
Hanover, St. Mathias I., Squally I., June to August ( Eichhorn , 
Meelc ); 17 ex. 
Thisizima bovina, n. sp. 
2 . 23-24 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, face ochreous- 
whitish. Palpi and antennae ochreous-whitish. Thorax dark 
violet-fuscous. Anal tuft of hairs very large, pale brownish. 
Fore wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen 
obliquely rounded; dark violet-fuscous: cilia grey. Hindwings 
dark grey, with bright purple reflections ; cilia grey. 
Andamans, Mt. Harriet, 1200 feet, May ( Ferrar ); 2 ex. 
Gerontha dracuncula, n. sp. 
3 . 25 mm. Head light ochreous, mixed dark fuscous on sides, 
face suffused fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax grey-whitish 
irrorated fuscous, anteriorly suffused dark fuscous. Forewings 
elongate, narrow, termen obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 out of 7 ; 
ochreous-whitish becoming grey-whitish posteriorly, coarsely 
strigulated with dark fuscous irroration ; a streak of dark fuscous 
suffusion along costa, towards apex becoming three distinct dark 
fuscous spots with irregular ochreous-whitish interspaces; a tuft 
above dorsum at and larger transverse tuft resting on dorsum 
beyond middle, these suffused brown posteriorly; a dark fuscous 
tuft on end of cell, whence an irregular thick dark fuscous streak 
extends to near termen below middle ; some dark fuscous dots or 
marks on termen: cilia ochreous-whitish barred dark fuscous. 
Hindwings pale iridescent grey, thinly scaled, veins dark grey ; a 
well-defined hyaline blotch between veins 16 and lc on basal third 
of wing, 16 curved up round this; cilia grey, on dorsum pale 
yellowish. 
S. Andamans, 1200 feet, May ( Ferrar ); 1 ex. Mr. T. B. 
Fletcher has a second quite similar specimen. The dark elongate 
blotch or streak in forewings posteriorly is a good distinguishing 
mark. 
Cyathaula inophora Meyr. 
The original 3 example (still unique) has a long expansible 
grey hairpencil lying along costa of hindwings beneath forewings, 
