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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
elongate-lanceolate ; rather light grey, somewhat sprinkled white, 
costa suffused darker grey towards base; stigmata blackish, first 
discal forming apex of a triangular dark grey blotch on costa 
beyond middle, preceded by some whitish costal suffusion, plical 
obliquely before first discal, second discal forming apex of an 
irregular transverse dark grey spot from tornus;.some irregular 
dark grey apical suffusion: cilia whitish-grey, basal half sprinkled 
blackish. Hindwings grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Peru, Lima, 500 feet, August ( Parish ) ; 1 ex. 
Borkhausenia commixta, n. sp. 
$ . 11 mm. Head, thorax whitish-grey. Palpi grey, apex of 
joints white. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; whitish, irrorated 
dark fuscous : stigmata small, black, plical very obliquely beyond 
first discal, an additional dot above and midway between first and 
second discal: cilia whitish, towards base thinly sprinkled dark 
fuscous. Hindwings light grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Peru, Lima, 500 feet, August ( Parish ); 1 ex. Allied to pre¬ 
ceding, but apparently distinct; it is however perhaps uncertain 
whether the homologies of the stigmatic dots are correctly stated. 
Borkhausenia aciculata, n. sp. 
$. 16 mm. Head, thorax whitish irrorated dark fuscous. 
Palpi white, second joint dark grey except apex, terminal joint |, 
sprinkled dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1. Fore wings elon¬ 
gate, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very 
obliquely rounded ; white irrorated dark grey; a fine black sub¬ 
costal line from base to near middle, and one somewhat interrupted 
along fold nearly throughout ; a slender black median streak from 
about to near termen, and a fine black line near above this 
beyond cell almost to apex : cilia whitish, sprinkled dark grey on 
basal half. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 
Texas, Fort Davis, 5000 feet, October; 1 ex. 
Borkhausenia exstimulata, n. sp. 
(S . 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark grey sprinkled white, 
palpi rather short. Antennal ciliations 1. Forewings elongate, 
rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very 
obliquely rounded; grey, irregularly irrorated whitish; a dark 
fuscous dot in disc at |, from which a white longitudinal line runs 
to a black dot surrounded by white on end of cell (second discal 
stigma), passing near a slight longitudinal blackish mark repre¬ 
senting first discal stigma, beneath which is a l6ss distinct similar 
mark in a white line on fold (plical stigma), and interrupted before 
extremity by an elongate spot of blackish-grey suffusion : cilia grey 
mixed whitish. Hindwings light grey; cilia pale greyish, a some¬ 
what darker subbasal shade. 
Mexico, Lower California, December ; 1 ex. 
