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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
obliquely across wing to form a triangular blotch with truncate 
apex resting on fold beyond middle, whence a streak of suffusion 
undefined anteriorly but waved and with an excavation in disc 
posteriorly runs to costa just before apex ; on and between these 
markings in disc is a series of black streaks between veins, and 
two or three others on dorsal half preceding them; a subcostal row 
of irregular black dots on anterior half; some irregular dark 
strigulation before termen, sometimes with a series of short black 
interneural dashes : cilia whitish-grey barred dark grey, with a 
dark grey subbasal line. Hindwings grey-whitish, more or less 
finely irrorated grey except towards base, veins finely grey ; cilia 
grey-whitish, a fine greyish subbasal line. 
$ . 44-50 mm. Fore wings more elongate, termen more oblique, 
pale greyish irregularly irrorated dark grey ; markings similar but 
less distinct, black streaks reduced to dark grey or obsolete, cilia 
greyer; hindwings light grey. 
Bomhay, Dharwar, May (Maxwell) ; 7 ex. (3 d , 4 £ ). 
Melasma spanioctenis, n. sp. 
d . 21 mm. Head ochreous-yellow, back and sides of crown 
mixed fuscous. Palpi 2|, ochreous-yellowish externally suffused 
fuscous. Antennae whitish obliquely ringed fuscous, pectinations 
remote (6). Thorax fuscous anteriorly suffused dark fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 
obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; fuscous with irregular 
suffusion of dark fuscous irroration, without defined markings 
except 3 or 4 dark blotches on posterior half of costa: cilia 
fuscous suffusedly irrorated darker. Hindwings blackish-grey; 
cilia dark grey, a blackisli-grey subbasal shade. 
Uganda, Kampala, April ( Hancock ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). Perhaps 
allied to secundella Wals. from W. Africa. 
Acrolophus empedocles, n. sp. 
d . 18 mm. Head light greyish. Palpi long, erectly ascending, 
loosely scaled, light fuscous sprinkled dark fuscous. Antennae 
bipectinated (4). Thorax light greyish sprinkled dark fuscous. 
Genitalia: uncus double, separate, moderately long, directed down¬ 
wards, slender, obtuse ; valva moderately long, straight, tolerably 
broad, apex slightly swollen, rather obtuse-pointed. Forewings 
moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 
obliquely rounded; all veins separate ; grey, indistinctly strigulated 
blacldsh irroration ; costa with series of small blackish-grey spots 
on posterior |; a small blackish-grey spot on end of cell: cilia pale 
grey, obscurely barred blackish-grey. Hindwings grey; cilia 
whitish-grey, an interrupted subbasal grey shade. 
Brazil, Hova Friburgo, Organ Mountain, April; lex. (Coll. 
Joann is). 
Tinea allntella Beb. 
I am indebted to Mr. H. Stringer of the British Museum for 
calling, my attention to the apparent identity of this species, 
