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EXOTIC MICR0LEP1D0PTERA. 
beneath, terminal joint about 3 of second, somewhat depressed, 
smooth, obtuse, mostly concealed in scales of second. Maxillary 
palpi imperceptible. Thorax clothed with dense loosely appressed 
hairscales above, densely hairy beneath. Abdomen <3 extremely 
elongate, rather stout, smooth-scaled, basal segment clothed with 
dense appressed hairs dorsally, anal tuft separating into short 
median and lateral tufts. Legs long, rather slender, femora hairy 
beneath, posterior tibise shortly rough-sealed above, spurs normal, 
slender. Lore wings without retinaculum, cilia long ; 1 b short- 
furcate, 2 from towards angle, 3 from angle, 4 parallel, 5 and 6 
approximated at base, media- well-developed, lower branch running 
to between 4 and 5, upper to 6 , 7 and 8 stalked, 7 running to 
beneath apex (indefinite), this stalk rising from well-developed 
margin of accessory cell (chorda), transverse vein from 6 to 9 
distinct but weak and seeming adventitious, 9 and 10 connate from 
angle of cell, 11 from before middle of cell. Hind wing 1, oblong- 
ovate, cilia | ; without frenulum (a slight tuft of short hairs from 
base of costa); 2-7 nearly parallel, 3 from angle, posterior half of 
simple median well-marked, running to 4. 
A primitive type of great interest, one of the earliest forms of 
Tineiclce, yet with special characters ; if the absence of frenulum is 
primitive, as is probable, it is quite the earliest. Certain resem¬ 
blances to the Hepicdidce (with which there is realty no near 
relationship) are due to inheritance from a common origin. 
Aeonoxena palaeographa, n. sp. 
(3 . 47 mm. Head whitish, centrally tinged brownish. Palpi 5, 
whitish, second joint externally suffused brown. Antennal pecti¬ 
nations 4, brush of scape brownish. Thorax whitish slightly 
sprinkled brown. Abdomen whitish irrorated fuscous. Forewings 
elongate, gradually dilated, costa hardly arched, apex rounded- 
obtuse, termen obliquely rounded, nearly continuous in curve with 
dorsum ; whitish-ochreous, irregularly tinged and sprinkled 
brownish; some dark fuscous suffusion beneath costa on basal 
fourth; veins marked with very fine lines of scattered dark fuscous 
scales; an irregular longitudinal streak of dark fuscous suffusion 
in disc on median third, connected between 4 and 5 with an 
irregular-edged fascia of similar suffusion running from beneath 
basal | of vein 2 to termen beneath apex, moderately broad beneath 
and narrowing upwards ; a blotch of- dark irroration above dorsum 
before middle of wing, and some similar irroration along dorsum 
towards tornus ; four small spots of dark fuscous irroration on 
posterior half of costa : cilia ochreous-whitish, basal half more 
ochreous-tinged and slightly speckled fuscous, four bars of dark 
fuscous irroration on costal spots. Hindwings rather light fuscous; 
cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused pale fulvous-ochreous towards base. 
Tanganyika Territory, Handeni, August (N. 0. E. Miller ); 
1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). The specimen, from condition of cilia, was 
probably fresh from pupa and had never flown ; the genitalia are 
entirety retracted within the orifice of abdomen and imperceptible, 
