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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Telphusa machinata, n. sp. 
S . 13 mm. Head whitish-grey sprinkled grey or dark fuscous, 
face more whitish. Palpi grey-whitish sprinkled grey, second and 
terminal joints each with two bands of dark grey or dark fuscous 
irroration. Thorax ochreous-greyish, anterior edge suffused dark 
fuscous. Porewings elongate-lanceolate, narrowed from before 
middle to apex; olive-brownish, some blackish suffusion on base of 
costa and on dorsum towards base; four small suffused blackish 
spots on costa from near base to |, costal area between these 
sprinkled whitish, beneath third of these a short pale ochreous 
longitudinal mark, and one sometimes less developed beneath 
second ; blackish marks in disc obliquely beyond first and seoond of 
these, a spot of white suffusion between them ; oblique oval whitish 
rings in disc before and beyond middle, converging upwards, some 
blackish suffusion within second; a large whitish-ochreous scale- 
tuft towards dorsum at and one beneath base of each discal ring ; 
an acutely angulated whitish transverse line at §, some blackish 
suffusion within its angle ; some marks of whitish irroration round 
posterior part of costa and termen, and some slight blackish 
irroration between these : cilia whity-brownish, some rows of 
blackish specks. Hindwings pale grey • cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Assam, Khasis ; 2 ex. The scaletufts of forewings in this species 
are unusually developed. 
Neodactylota snellenella Wals. 
Having obtained this interesting species (previously unknown to 
me) from P'ort Davis, Texas, I am now satisfied that it is truly 
ancestral to Nealyda, and that the two genera were wrongly 
associated by me (Gen. Insect, clxxxiv, 25) with the non-American 
group of Apcitetris (which has hindwings of the same peculiar 
form), their real alliance being with Gelechici , of which they form 
a specialised development, The curious modification of the hind¬ 
wings seems evidently to have resulted from the median hairpencil 
of <5* , afterwards becoming stabilised in the group. 
Gelechia chionomima, n. sp. 
2 . 11 mm. Head, thorax snow-white. Palpi white, second 
joint dark fuscous except apex. Porewings elongate, apex obtuse- 
pointed, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; snow-white ; a black 
costal streak from base to middle ; a hemispherical leaden-grey 
tornal spot, edged black anteriorly, continued by a narrow irregular 
brown terminal fascia including a leaden-grey mark to apex, its 
edge forming a short acute blackish projection in disc : cilia on costa 
white, opposite apex with short blackish-grey basal and median 
bars, on termen leaden-grey with blackish-grey basal line beneath 
apex. Hindwings 1, termen sinuate; grey-whitish ; cilia grey- 
whitish, towards base ochreous-whitish. 
Hatal, Weenen, January ( Thomasset ) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). Ap¬ 
parently allied to hutchinsonella, but suggesting mimicry of a 
Polyhymno , as cJiionarcha. 
