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EXOTIC 3IICROLEPLDOPTEKA. 
part of termen ; a blue-metallic dash from subapical sinuation 
above these, a short oblique blue-metallic line from fourth post- 
median costal strigula, and a blue-metallic tip to following one : 
cilia bluish-leaden. Hind wings rather dark grey, darker and more 
fuscous towards apex : a small hyaline spot at base beneath ceil; 
cilia iridescent violet-grey. 
Hew Britain - , Talesea, March {Eichhorn) ; 1 ex. Allied to 
chelias. 
Laspeyresia detrita, n. sp. 
<$ $ . 11-13 mm. Crown dark grey speckled blue-whitish, 
forehead brownish, face ochreous-whitish. Palpi fuscous speckled 
whitish. Thorax dark fuscous, tegulm speckled whitish. Pore- 
wings rather dilated, apex obtuse, termen slightly oblique, rounded 
beneath ; whitish-ockreous, $ faintly brownish-tinged ; costal edge 
blackish-grey, marked throughout with groups of 2-4 very line 
oblique whitish strigulse, short oblique dark grey strigm at middle 
and |, and a fine oblique longer whitish silvery-tipped strigula 
before apex; apical fourth tinged grey and speckled whitish, a 
short fine blackish-grey dash towards costa at 4 ; ocellus indicated 
by slight transverse sinuate greyish marbling obscurely edged 
whitish ; a white mark on termen beneath apex, edged blackish 
irroration above and beneath, and another less marked below middle : 
cilia light grey speckled whitish. Hind wings grey, towards base 
thinly scaled and tinged whitish, especially in B , towards apex 
darker ; cilia grey-whitish, a grey subbasal line. 
Sudan - , Mad Medani, Hay, September {E. B. Johnston); 2 ex. 
Allied to jplanifrontana Keb., which has white hinawings. 
Laspeyresia anamnestis, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head, thorax dark fuscous speckled whitish. Palpi 
fuscous, apex of joints whitish, second joint suffused whitish on 
basal |. Foyewings rather elongate, dilated, costa gently arched, 
termen slightly bowed, somewhat oblique ; rather dark fuscous ; 
basal area irregularly irrorated and marbled grey-whitish, limited 
by a narrow curved suffused grey-whitish fascia formed of two 
confluent striae from 4 of costa to middle of dorsum ; beyond this 
a narrow fascia of groundcolour containing a grey-whitish dot on 
costa and a small suffused fulvous spot in middle, limited by a 
slightly curved grey-whitish stria; remainder of wing orange- 
fulvous, marked on costa with three white dots preceded by wedge- 
shaped dark fuscous spots, first with an oblique silvery-blue-leaden 
strigula and third with a direct one, these partly edged dark fuscous 
and connected at tips, ocellus irregularly margined dark fuscous 
and posteriorly by a silvery-leaden streak, and crossed by three 
dark fuscous lines, connected by two oblique streaks (upper silvery- 
leaden) with a small dark fuscous spot on end of cell, some dark 
fuscous strigulae on tornal edge, and an almost marginal streak 
along upper | of termen, apical edge silvery, and a small silvery 
dot towards termen beneath apex : cilia light silvery-grey, a dark 
