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EXOTfC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
apical thirds dark fuscous, tuft longest towards base, terminal 
joint with dark fuscous basal and apical bands. Thorax dark grey, 
shoulders white speckled dark grey, rest of tegulae pale greyish- 
ochreous. Abdomen 3 basal segments pale ochreous. Fore wings 
elongate, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 
grey sprinkled blackish, becoming darker blackish-grey anteriorly ; 
a broad whitish streak irrorated grey from base to about middle 
of costa, marked with a small black spot on base of costa and 
linear subcostal mark beyond it; stigmata represented by blackish- 
grey spots, sometimes slightly whitish-edged but often hardly 
distinguishable, discal connected by a dark streak, lying in edge of 
dark area, first elongate, second small, plical elongate, slightly 
before first discal, sometimes forming a longer streak; an irregu¬ 
larly excurved whitish transverse shade at | obscurely indicated, 
sometimes forming a distinct dot on costa : cilia ochreous-whitish, 
slightly speckled dark fuscous, base indistinctly spotted blackish 
irroration. Hindwings over 1, grey ; cilia light ochreous-grey. 
Texas, Fort Davis, 5000 feet, October, November ; 8 ex. 
Nothris melanchlora, n. sp. 
c? . 19 mm. Head white, crown sprinkled dark grey. Palpi 
white sprinkled grey, tuft of second joint triangular, widest at 
apex, basal half blackish-grey, terminal joint grey anteriorly, 
becoming blackish towards apex. Thorax white speckled grey, a 
black streak on inner side of each tegula. Fore wings elongate, 
apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light grey 
speckled blackish, veins more or less marked with blackish lines ; 
a broad white costal streak slightly speckled dark grey from base 
to about middle, marked with a small blackish spot on base of 
costa and a fine linear subcostal mark beyond this ; discal stigmata 
forming round spots of blackish suffusion ringed whitish, posterior § 
of cell mostly suffused blackish round these, plical stigma indicated 
by a blackish longitudinal mark beneath first discal; towards 
posterior half of costa and termen groundcolour somewhat streaked 
whitish suffusion between veins: cilia rosy-whitish sprinkled dark 
grey and blackish, whiter towards base on termen. Hindwings 
slightly over 1, whitish-grey, veins suffused grey; cilia pale 
greyish. 
Texas, Fort Davis, 5000 feet, October ; 1 ex. A 5,17 mm., 
from Bent, New Mexico, 7000 feet, July, is almost certainly the 
other sex of this ; the thorax is without the black streaks, the 
veins of forewings posteriorly more strongly streaked blackish, 
abdomen with 3 basal segments pale ochreous (this portion of 
abdomen in S injured, but probably similar). 
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Nothris tephrinopa, n. sp. 
<d 2 • 15-17 mm. Head grey-whitish, crown irrorated dark 
fuscous. Palpi dark gre} T , second joint with whitish median patch, 
tuft triangular, widest at apex, terminal joint with whitish median 
