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lobes posteriorly, some whitish sprinkling beyond this: cilia 
whitish, on termen a blackish snbbasal line with some white bars, 
on costa and within cleft mostly grey, on dorsum with two blackish 
scale-projections. Hindwings grey; cilia greyish-ochreous, on 
dorsum of third lobe with some scattered black-tipped hairscales 
anteriorly and a triangular projection of similar scales about J-. 
Peru, Agualani, 9000 feet, June (Ocfcenden) ; 2 ex. (Coll. 
Paravicini). 
Platyptilia macrornis, n. sp. 
5 . r 32 mm. Head, thorax whitish-ochreous, face with lon& 
conical scale-projection fuscous beneath. Palpi 3, slender, fuscous? 
tip white. Forewings apex falcate, termen second lobe faintly 
sinuate, oblique; ochreous-whitish, suffusedly irrorated pale 
brownish-ochreous ; some slight reddish-fuscous irroration along 
anterior half of costa ; a dark reddish-fuscous dot in disc at j ; a 
broad-triangular costal blotch beyond middle reaching to below 
cleft, upper part reddish-fuscous, lower dark brown, posterior edge 
with two darker dots above and below cleft and some whitish 
suffusion between these ; costal edge shortly white beyond this ; 
lower half of first lobe mostly reddish-fuscous, some whitish 
suffusion above this ; some reddish-fuscous suffusion towards termen 
of second lobe: cilia on costa white with a fuscous patch before 
middle of lobe, elsewhere whitish, on termen with a reddish-fuscous 
antemedian shade, within cleft posteriorly pale ochreous. Hind- 
wings brownish-gre}’’; cilia grey-whitish, on dorsum of third lobe 
with a patch of blackish-tipped scales extending from middle to if. 
Turkestan, Fort Narine, Prov. Semirechgensee; 1 ex. (Coll. 
Paravicini). 
Alncita endophaea, n. sp. 
5 . 22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen yellowish-white. 
Forewings lobes linear; yellowish-white ; minute black dots at 
extremities of veins : cilia whitish. Hindwings rather dark grey 
towards base, first lobe light grey, second and third whitish ; minute 
black dots at apex of lobes ; cilia whitish. 
Portuguese E. Africa, Lourengo Marques; 1 ex.(Coll. Paravicini). 
Allied to canclidalis, but distinguished by the grey hindwings. 
Alncita dryogramma, n. sp. 
<$ $ . 19-24 mm. Head yellowish, sometimes suffused fuscous, 
a white frontal bar. Palpi whitish-yellowish externally suffused 
fuscous, internally whitish. Thorax pale yellow, tegulrn tinged 
brownish. Abdomen yellow-whitish, yellower on sides, indistinctly 
lined fuscous. Forewings cleft to before middle, segments linear ; 
whitish; a slender light ochreous-brown subcostal streak from 
base, at middle becoming costal and continued to near apex; a 
light ochreous-brown streak along fold from base to near cleft; 
some light ochreous-brown suffusion in disc from about % to cleft, 
whence slender streaks run along inner edge of both lobes to their 
middle or nearly : cilia light brownish, on costa white towards 
