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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 
New Ireland, December ( Eichliorn ) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). 
Very similar to preceding, but distinct by different position of 
eyes, and black streak from postmedian blotch to dorsum. 
Nemotois Mppophylax, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head bronzy-yellowish, face bright shiny brassy- 
metallic. Palpi yellowish. Antennae dark fuscous, basal thick¬ 
ened with dense purple scales, scape yellowish. Thorax shining 
brassy-metallic, teguke coppery-purple except base. Abdomen 
orange-jullow. Pore wings rather short-triangular, termen obliquely 
rounded; deep shining coppery-purple; an orange basal patch 
occupying | of wing, including bright bluish-brassy subcostal and 
median lines from base to |, and separated by a moderate straight 
direct black-edged fascia of groundcolour from an orange post¬ 
median fascia moderately broad on | and suddenly narrowed on 
remainder, posteriorly edged black towards costa: cilia coppery- 
purplish. Hindwings dark fuscous ; a yellow basal patch with 
oblique edge occupying about ^ of wing; cilia pale orange, on 
costa grey. 
British New Guinea, Kumusi R. (Meek) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Para- 
Yicini). Allied to profusella. 
Adela arabarcha, n. sp. 
B . 12-13 mm. Head with very long rough whitish hairs, mixed 
blackish on crown and forehead; eyes greatly enlarged, nearly 
approximated above. Palpi with very long rough whitish and a 
few blackish hairs. Antennse white, grey above near base. Thorax, 
abdomen blackish. Porewings elongate, costa faintly sinuate, apex 
obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; brassy-brownish; a whitish 
transverse blotch on costa at |, suffusedly expanded on costa towards 
base, and a small spot on dorsum opposite ; a moderately broad 
white postmedian fascia, projecting angularly inwards in middle 
and angularly outwards below middle; an inwardly oblique white 
fasciate blotch from costa towards apex reaching half across wing, 
and a small spot on termen above tornus: cilia white, a bronzy- 
grey patch on tornus and bar above apex. Hindwings 5 and 6 
stalked; white, tip grey; cilia white. 
Tunis ; 5 ex. (Coll. 0. Leonhard, Berl. Ent. Mus.). This 
remarkable and very distinct species has a Trichopterous facies, but 
is structurally a true Adela. 
Ceromitia aphroneura, n. sp. 
B . 15 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous. Antennas whitish. 
Palpi very short, whitish. Thorax whitish. Porewings elongate, 
somewhat dilated, termen very obliquety rounded; light grey 
irregularly sprinkled darker,^suffusedly irrorated whitish, posteriorly 
forming indistinct irregular whitish lines on veins : cilia ochreous- 
whitish. Hindwings pale bronzy-grey; cilia whitish. 
Portuguese E. Africa, Hakulane, September; 1 ex. (Coll. 
Paravicini). 
