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EXOTIC MICTtOLEPIDOPTERA. 
anteriorly, terminal joint much longer than second, rough-scaled 
anteriorly except towards acute apex. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 
Abdomen broad, Hat. Posterior tibiae rough-haired above and 
beneath. Forewings with tufts of rough scales on surface; 
2 from |, 3-5 approximated at base, 4 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 
7 to just above apex, 11 from beyond middle. Hind wings over 1, 
trapezoidal, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, cilia J-; without 
cubital pecten ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 
nearly approximated towards base. 
Allied to Platyedra , differing by palpi and rough tufts of fore¬ 
wings. 
Trachyedra xylomorpha, n. sp. 
$ . 20 mm. Head, thorax pale ochreous mixed brownish, a 
dark fuscous spot on shoulder. Palpi whitish-ochreous partly 
tinged brownish, basal half and a subapical bar of second joint and 
subbasal and supramedian bars of terminal joint suffusedly irro- 
rated dark fuscous. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen rather oblique, slightly rounded; light brownish 
with faint reddish tinge, some scattered fuscous scales; anterior 
half of costa irregularly strigulated with dark fuscous irroration ; 
minute black dots in disc near base, at |, and §; disc strewn with 
irregular rough scales; an irregular dark fuscous and blackish 
blotch including raised scales in disc before middle, a projection at 
lower angle indicating plical stigma; a suffused dark fuscous and 
blackish spot on costa about |; some dark fuscous scales on costa 
before apex : cilia light brownish. Hiudwings grey: cilia pale 
greyish-ochreous. 
Kanaka, Gersoppa, November {Maxwell); 1 ex. 
Hierangela doxanthes, n. sp. 
5 . 14 mm. Head pale yellow, face silvery-whitish. Palpi 
yellow-whitish. Thorax pale yellow, a dorsal dot behind collar 
and two small posterior spots crimson. Forewings narrow, costa 
straight, apex produced into a slender filament, termen sinuate 
beneath this, then obliquely rounded ; clear yellow ; an oblique 
wedgeshaped crimson spot on dorsum towards base ; an irregular 
crimson streak from base beneath costa through middle of disc to 
termen beneath apex, connected beneath by a blackish-grey mark 
before middle with an elongate-wedgeshaped crimson spot lying 
along middle of dorsum, slightly interrupted about middle and more 
strongly at | ; a blackish dot beneath costa at |, and a short fine 
longitudinal line at 4, connected by a crimson dash with median 
streak on termen ; an inwards-oblique crimson streak from tornus 
to beneath median streak at J-; a crimson terminal streak marked 
with a blackish dot beneath apex : cilia pale grey, on tornal area 
suffused rosy-pink on basal half, on termen with a pale golden- 
metallic basal line. Hiudwings pale rosy-pink, basal |- grey- 
whitish ; cilia whitish-grey, basal half pale rosy-pink round apical 
area. 
New Guinea, Astrolabe Range, 1800 feet ( Dodd ); 1 ex. 
