480 
EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
white, base tinged yellowish except towards tornus. Hindwings 
and cilia whitish. Posterior tibiae without tuft beneath. 
Brazil, Obidos, September ( Parish ); 1 ex. The different form 
of forewings is very distinctive. 
GRACILARIADJE. 
Marmara leptodesma, n. sp. 
S $ . 7 mm. Head white. Palpi white, tip of second joint 
and median ring of terminal dark fuscous. Thorax white, lateral 
edge mixed grey. Pore wings grey, closely irrorated dark grey ; 
dorsal edge irregularly white to a triangular white spot on middle 
of dorsum, edged dark fuscous scales ; a small white mark on costa 
at |; a slender rather oblique sometimes slightly curved or inter¬ 
rupted white fascia somewhat beyond middle, more or less trian¬ 
gularly expanded on costa, a similar straighter and usually more 
interrupted one at |, and a slender incurved fascia towards apex, all 
these blackish-edged : cilia pale grey, base spotted white on termen, 
at apex a white patch with black basal and two other bars, shortly 
extended beneath as darker grey cloudy shades. Hindwings dark 
grey ; cilia pale grey. 
Texas, Porestburg, July, August; Hew Mexico, Bent, 7000 feet, 
October ; 20 ex. I now recognise that the South American species 
ischnotoma, isortha, phaneropis, stemonodes, and affirmata, originally 
placed by me in Parectopa, should properly be transferred to 
Marmara. 
Gracilaria macranthes, n. sp. 
<3 $ . 10-11 mm. Head, thorax violet-fuscous, face shining 
snow-white. Palpi white, terminal joint with minute blackish 
ring just beneath tip. Porewings violet-fuscous irrorated darker; 
a sharply defined clear brassy-yellow elongate patch extending 
along costa from about ^ to its anterior half triangular with 
apex reaching fold, posterior half elongate and occupying nearly 
costal half of wing, posteriorly pointed : cilia pale greyish, round 
apex and termen sprinkled dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia 
light grey. 
Texas, Porestburg, June, July; 20 ex. Much like blandella 
Clem, (of which a single specimen was received from the same 
localitj*), but differs from this and similar species by absence of 
any yellow suffusion or blotch at base of forewings. 
GELECHIADiE. 
Apatetris caecivaga, n. sp. 
<5. 12 mm. Head, thorax grey-whitish speckled grey, face 
ochreous-grey-whitish. Palpi moderate, grey-whitish, second joint 
irrorated dark grey except apex. Forewings 7 and 8 out of 6 ; 
grey-whitish closely speckled fuscous : plical and second discal 
stigmata obscurely indicated by darker irroration : cilia grey- 
whitish, slightly speckled fuscous. Hindwings apex moderately 
produced ; grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
