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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Antennal ciliations 3. Forewings moderately broad, rather dilated, 
costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique ; 
light brownish-oehreous, basal half sprinkled light fuscous; base 
narrowly and irregularly blackish; a round blackish blotch near 
apex : cilia pale ochreous. Hind wings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Brazil, Teffe, January ( Parish ); 1 ex. A striking form, perhaps 
allied to pagana. 
Atelosticha ochrospora, n. sp. 
c? . 11 mm. Head white. Palpi white tinged rosy, basal J of 
second joint grey. Antennal ciliations 3. Thorax rosy-white. 
Pore wings elongate, rather dilated, costa slightly arched, apex 
obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique; white, irregularly 
sprinkled ochreous, costa tinged rosy posteriorly, costal edge 
blackish towards base; a blackish transverse blotch from dorsum 
near base, reaching more than half across wing; plical and first 
discal stigmata rather large, black, plical rather posterior; a black 
transverse streak from beneath costa at | to tornus; a marginal 
series of partly confluent dots of black irroration round apical part 
of costa and termen: cilia rosy-whitish, a black basal line at 
apex. Hindwings whitish, becoming whitish-grey posteriorly ; cilia 
whitish. 
Brazil, Manaos, November (Parish ); 1 ex. Near rJiodoclista 
Meyr. 
SECITIS, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts somewhat raised; ocelli 
posterior ; tongue developed. Antennse 4, scape moderate, without 
pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, curved, aseending, slender, 
with appressed scales, second joint not reaching base of antennae, 
terminal joint somewhat shorter than second, acute. Maxillary 
palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae 
clothed with rough hairs above. Forewings 1 b furcate, 2 from 
towards angle, 4 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 11 from 
middle. Hindwings |, ovate-lanceolate, cilia |; 4 absent, 5 rather 
approximated to 3, 6 and 7 nearly parallel. 
Perhaps allied to Microlocha . 
Secitis grata, n. sp. 
$ . 10 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark purplish-grey. Fore¬ 
wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very 
obliquely rounded ; ochreous-yellow ; a wedgeshaped dark purplish- 
grey spot on basal fifth of costa, base just reaching dorsum ; a dark 
purplish-grey apical patch occupying nearly 3 of wing, edge hardly 
concave, running from costa at | to just before tornus : cilia dark 
grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Cochin-China, Cape St. Jacques; 1 ex. (Coll. Joannis.) 
