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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
purple terminal fascia occupying ^ of wing, edge rather oblique, 
marked by a rather irregular line of dark fuscous scales with one 
or two slight projections, within this fascia a large rounded dark 
fuscous blotch occupying apex and most of termen : cilia fuscous 
with rows of darker points. Hindwings rather dark bronzy-grey ; 
cilia light greyish. 
New Guinea, Astrolabe Eange, 1800 feet ( Dodd ); 2 ex. Near 
nesocharis. 
CYNOMASTXX, n. g. 
Head shortly rough-scaled; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed, 
short. Antennae scape moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi 
moderately long, curved, ascending, second joint thickened with 
short rough projecting scales beneath, terminal joint shorter, flatly 
compressed and rather hollowed, obtuse-pointed. Maxillary palpi 
very long, slender, several-jointed, folded, set with very short fine 
erect hairs. Posterior tibiae rough-haired above. Fore wings 2 
from towards angle, 3 and 4 approximated from angle, 7 and 8 
stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, elongate- 
ovate, cilia ; 2 remote, 3 from angle, 5 and 6 somewhat 
approximated. 
Allied to Mastigostoma and Cycithaula. 
Cynomastix rhothodoxa, n. sp. 
5 . 15-17 mm. Head fuscous mixed dark fuscous and suf- 
fusedly irrorated whitish. Palpi white irregularly irrorated dark 
fuscous. Thorax fuscous mixed dark fuscous, posterior margin 
sprinkled white. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, 
apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; fuscous with 
bases of scales whitish, numerous small undefined dark fuscous 
spots or dots tending to form longitudinal series, costal edge some¬ 
times distinctly spotted dark fuscous and white; an irregular 
lighter band along posterior part of dorsum and termen more or less 
indicated, sometimes much suffused with white, especially towards 
disc, and limited there by dark fuscous suffusion, some irregular 
suffused dark fuscous markings in disc sometimes indicating stig¬ 
mata : cilia fuscous, more or less mixed whitish. Hindwings 
bronzy-grey ; cilia whitish-grey, a darker subbasal line. 
New Caledonia, Noumea, May ( T . D. A. Cockerell ); 4 ex. 
(type Brit. Mus.). 
Hypophrictis spiloglypta, n. sp. 
6 . 13 mm. Head, thorax pale greyish-ochreous, a dark fuscous 
spot on shoulder. Palpi fuscous, apex of joints ochreous-whitish. 
Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 
obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 connate, 9 absent; light greyish- 
ochreous sprinkled whitish, with scattered small spots or strigulse 
of fuscous irroration ; markings blackish-fuscous; a short thick 
streak on base of costa, with an inwards-oblique acute projection 
from, its apex beneath ; two small spots beyond this on costa, 
