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EXOTIC MICROLEriDOPTERA. 
Nemotois sporodesma, n. sp. 
<J . 12 mm. Head pale bronzy-metallic, with purple iridescence, 
eyes small. Palpi short, hairy, whitish. Antennm dark fuscous, 
whitish beneath, towards base whitish ringed dark fuscous, naked, 
scape purple-bronzy-metallic. Thorax purplish-grey. Forewings 
moderate, posteriorly dilated, termen xery obliq-uely rounded; 
golden-metallic becoming greyish-purple in certain lights, Gostal 
area on basal halt' blackish sprinkled golden-metallic; markings 
grey closely irrorated whitish and margined black, viz. a narrow 
direct rather irregular median fascia, a rather oblique transverse 
spot from costa beyond this, a subquadrate blotch on apex and 
upper part of termen enclosing a small terminal spot of ground¬ 
colour, and a small transverse mark above tornus: cilia golden- 
metallic, outer half purplish. Hindwings dark purplish-grey 
becoming paler towards base ; cilia light grey. 
Kanara, Allandei, November ( Maxwell) ; 1 ex. A 2 in rather 
poor condition from Dibidi, 3000 feet, Coorg, February (JVeivcome), 
11 mm., antennae very slender, obscure, markings rather more 
irregular, is doubtless the same species. 
Nemotois iscknodesma, n. sp. 
2- 15 mm. Head, thorax grey-whitish. Palpi white. Antennae 
white, basal half thickened with dark violet-fuscous scales and 
terminating in a dark fuscous tuft. Fore wings rather short and 
broad, termen rather strongly oblique; shining light violet-grey 
overlaid white and sprinkled blackish; a small black spot on base 
of costa : a faintly curved slightly irregular blackish line from about 
middle of costa to | of dorsum; a short oblique black line from 
costa at |, and a small irregular black spot in disc beneath its 
extremity: cilia grey-whitish, on costa dark grey. Hindwings 
dark purple ; cilia whitish, a dark grey basal line. 
Assam, Gauhati, April ( Fletcher ); 1 ex. Nearest cyphozona. 
Nemotois cantharites, n. sp. 
2 . 21 mm. Head orange-fulvous. Palpi short, rough-scaled, 
orange-fulvous. Antennae grey-whitish ringed grey, basal J- 
thickened with appressed blue-purple scales, third (median) fifth 
clothed with rough black scales. Thorax shining indigo-green. 
Fore wings elongate-triangular, termen very obliquely rounded ; 
deep purple; basal area almost to transverse streak nearly wholly 
suffused shining indigo-green; two strong parallel direct transverse 
metallic blue-green streaks before middle; remainder of wing 
beyond this strewn shining brassy-green scales, a metallic blue- 
green spot on end of cell, a blotch of metallic brassy-blue-green 
suffusion resting on apical part of costa, and a spot on tornus : cilia 
deep purple. Hindwings deep purple ; cilia purple-grey. 
Philippines, Mindanao, Kolambugan, June {C. S. Banks); 1 ex. 
Nemotois heliochalca, n. sp. 
(5 . 21 mm. Head orange-fulvous, eyes large, almost touching- 
on crown. Palpi short, clothed rough light orange-fulvous scales. 
