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EXOTIC JIICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Antennae white, lined and dotted black. Abdomen dark chestnut- 
brown, rather stout, apex rapidly tapered, two basally connivent 
white marks on first segment, edge of segment 2 slenderly whitish, 
some slight whitish dots on 4 and 6, some white marks on side, 
ventral surface white except last segment. Fore wings dark chest- 
nut-brown ; some suffused blackish irroration on basal third, and a 
triangular costal blotch above base of cleft; some blackish suffusion 
about middle of first lobe, preceded by a slight oblique streak of 
whitish suffusion : cilia pale ochreous, black teeth at apex of each 
lobe, preceded by one or two whitish scales and then by greyish 
patches, some white scales within clefts about middle of lobes. 
Hindwings dark grey, third lobe reddish-fuscous ; cilia grey tinged 
reddish, on third lobe with a small dorsal tooth of two or three 
black scales before middle, a large triangular black tooth beneath 
apex preceded by two or three white scales, and a narrow wedge- 
shaped black tooth above apex. 
Uganda, Kampala, July (H . Hargreaves ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Nearest viticola Meyr. from Ceylon. 
Platyptilia niphadarcha, n. sp. 
. 15 mm. Head black, two minute white dots above eye. 
Palpi very long and slender, recurved, acute. Thorax black, with 
a transverse series of metallic blue dots or marks. Abdomen black, 
posterior margin of segments 3 and 5 blue-leaden or silvery-blue, 
3-8 with white lateral marks on margin. Forewings cleft from ; 
black; a blue speck at base of costa; a blue-white dot near 
dorsum about one in disc before middle, two on costa about 
middle and |, and two placed transversely on each lobe towards 
termen : cilia grey, basal third black, white dots at both angles of 
upper lobe and near middle of termen of second. Hindwings with 
termen of second lobe very obliquely excavated, its lower angle 
triangularly prominent, third lobe short, linear ; black ; cilia grey, 
some white suffusion towards base before and beyond triangular 
prominence of second lobe, a small blackish scaletooth on dorsal 
edge of third lobe at |. 
Uganda, Kambadzidza, January ( Hancock ); 3 ex. (type Brit. 
Mus.). Allied to albisignatula Strand, which it resembles in the 
exaggerated peculiarities of structure, which are however only an 
extreme case, connected with typical forms of the genus by a series 
of gradations. 
Platyptilia saeva, n. sp. 
$ . 19-20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen whitish-gre} T 
suffusedly irrorated dark grey. Forewings lobes moderate, pos¬ 
teriorly dilated, first with apex falcate, second with termen rather 
oblique, somewhat bent in middle ; whitish-grey suffusedly irrorated 
dark grey; a triangular blackish costal blotch before cleft, apex 
extending to lower end of cleft, costal edge shortly white beyond it, 
followed by blackish suffusion along costa ; first lobe tinged ferru¬ 
ginous-brown anteriorly, a fine line of white scales covering both 
