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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
cilia fuscous irregularly and variably barred whitish. Hindwings 3 
and 4 stalked ; rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Portuguese Guinea, Sao Thome I., February (T. A. Barnes) ; 
5 ex. Very variable. 
Eucosma deltozyga, n. sp. 
3. 17 mm. Head, palpi blackish, crown with a few white 
scales in centre. Thorax blackish, an irregular white antemedian 
bar, a strong posterior crest with posterior half white. Posterior 
tibise with long whitish hairscales above. Forewings elongate, 
rather dilated, ter men hardly rounded, somewhat oblique ; black¬ 
ish-fuscous, a very few scattered white scales; two pairs of very 
short direct white strigulse on costa before middle, one pair beyond 
middle, and two single strigulse posteriorly ; subtriangular white 
blotches on dorsum before and beyond middle, confluent on dorsum, 
not reaching half across wing, dorsal edge marked with 3 or 4 short 
direct blackish strigulse ; some brown suffusion and two minute 
white dots on tornus; two approximated white dots at apex, and 
two white marks on termen somewhat above middle : cilia grey, 
barred white suffusion on terminal marks and tornus. Hindwings 
3 and 4 short-stalked; grey; cilia pale grey, a darker subbasal 
shade. 
Transvaal. Mahuba’s Kloof, 3500 feet, January ; 1 ex. (Coll. 
Janse). 
Eucosma sparactis, n. sp. 
3 . 15-16 mm. Head white, crown tinged ochreous and mixed 
dark fuscous. Palpi white, base dark fuscous. Thorax dark grey, 
mixed white on tegulse and posteriorly. Forewings without costal 
fold, costa slightly arched, termen faintly sinuate, hardly oblique ; 
white ; basal patch grey marked dark fuscous and black, widest on 
costa, edge curved, irregular; between this and central fascia some 
scattered dark fuscous and grey transverse or oblique marks, and 
towards costa some grey suffusion ; costa from basal patch to apex 
dark fuscous with paired white strigulse; central fascia very 
irregular, grey, below middle nearly interrupted by very irregular 
white indentations, beneath this some black mixture ; two in¬ 
complete greyish striae in posterior area, between these an irregular 
series of black specks terminated above by a larger black subcostal 
dot; at apex a small deep ferruginous spot preceded by a small 
black spot, and along terminal sinuation a deep ferruginous streak 
with some black scales anteriorly: cilia grey with white basal line 
and somewhat speckled white, on tornal area white. Hindwings 3 
and 4 stalked ; grey ; cilia grey-whitish, a dark grey subbasal line. 
Uganda, Kampala, November (Hancock) ; 2 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Near ricinicita. 
Eucosma gomphacma, n. sp. 
<3 . 12 mm. Head dark fuscous, face white. Palpi dark 
fuscous, terminal joint and apex of second white. Thorax dark 
leaden-fuscous. Forewings without costal fold, termen faintly 
