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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Chelaria antiastis, n. sp. 
d . 15-16 mm. Head whitish, crown sometimes sprinkled light 
grey. Palpi grey-whitish, second joint with two equal separate 
tufts, each with a blackish band, terminal joint much longer, with 
two confluent anterior thickenings of blackish scales occupying all 
except base and tip. Thorax whitish, slightly or generally mixed 
light grey. Porewings narrow, termen very obliquely rounded; 6 
separate; white, variably irrorated grey ; a suffused dark fuscous 
streak along median third of costa, cut by two indistinct whitish 
strigulae, median section longest; several slight white tufts irre¬ 
gularly placed in disc, preceded by slight dark fuscous irroration ; 
two small dark fuscous spots sometimes enveloped in brown 
suffusion on costa towards apex ; an erect mark of dark fuscous or 
blackish irroration from tornus, sometimes thickened and suffused 
brown at origin ; a slender terminal streak of dark fuscous irrora¬ 
tion hardly reaching this : cilia grey-whitish barred dark fuscous. 
Hindwings light grey, thinly scaled, veins suffused dark grey ; 
cilia grey. 
Andamans, Port Blair, June, October ( Ferrar ) ; 2 ex. Also 
allied to ericta. 
Chelaria cymoptila, n. sp. 
<5 . 10-13 mm. Head white, crown sometimes sprinkled grey. 
Palpi white, second joint dark grey with moderate triangular 
projecting tuft, apical edge white, terminal joint with three dark 
fuscous rings. Thorax grey speckled white, shoulders suffused 
darker. Porewings elongate, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded ; 6 separate ; grey speckled whitish, more or less tinged 
yellow-brownish posteriorly, some scattered black scales ; several 
raised tufts along costa, preceded by blackish scales ; some black 
partly raised dots, viz. one on fold before middle and one in disc 
at §, these representing stigmata and sometimes large, two on 
dorsum at -f and middle, one just above tornus, and one near termen 
beneath apex : cilia light brownish-grey. Hindwings subhyaline 
pale grey, veins and terminal edge suffused dark grey; cilia light 
grey. 
Cooro, Dibidi, 3500 feet, September (Neincome) ; Bombay, 
Karwar, September ( Maxwell) ; 2 ex. Allied to phacelota. 
Chelaria zesticopa, n. sp. 
c S $ . 14-15 mm. Head, thorax grey mixed darker. Palpi 
dark grey slightly speckled whitish, second joint thickened with 
dense scales, without tuft, terminal joint as long as second, thickened 
with dense rough scales posteriorly except extreme tip. Porewings 
6 separate; dark grey, tips of scales minutely whitish: small 
cloudy blackish-grey spots'on costa near base and at flatter some¬ 
times emitting a short very oblique black striga, an elongate spot 
on middle of costa, and four or five small spots on costa posteriorly; 
stigmata black, raised, somerimes accompanied by a few white 
ppecks, plical slightly before first discal, preceded by some whitish 
