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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
suffused fuscous, especially towards sides of back. Forewings 
rather elongate, somewhat dilated, costa moderately arched, apex 
obtuse, termen almost straight, little oblique ; 2 and 3 stalked; 
light rosy-fleshcolour, slightly sprinkled fuscous; costal edge 
blackish towards base; a rather broadly suffused rather dark 
fuscous upcurved longitudinal streak from middle of base to termen 
above tornus; an oblique-triangular blotch of rather dark fuscous 
suffusion on anterior part of dorsum, and a flattened-triangular 
blotch extending on dorsum from before middle to near tornus, some 
slight whitish-ochreous suffusion on margins of this; some slight 
fuscous marking on apical edge: cilia whitish-rosy-fleshcolour, 
with fuscous bar above tornus, beneath this more tinged ochreous- 
whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale greyish, a darker subbasal 
shade, round apex tinged rosy-whitish. 
Sierra Leoxe, Rjala (Hargreaves) 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Cryptolecilia percnocoma, n. sp. 
$ . 15 mm. Head blackish-grey, face pale grey. Palpi grey- 
whitish, irregularly sprinkled blackish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, 
anterior third blackish-grey. Forewings rather elongate, posteriorly 
dilated, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 
termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; whitish-ochreous, an undefined 
cloud of light grey suffusion extending over median third on costal 
half and continued much narrower to dorsum before middle, a 
similar cloud forming a marginal band round apex and termen; plic-al 
and first discal stigmata small, blackish, plical rather posterior; an 
irregular angulated series of small blackish dots forming anterior 
limit of terminal band ; five marginal interneural dots between 
veins 3-8, slightly separated with whitish : cilia ochreous-whitish 
(imperfect). Hindwings pale grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Brazil, Hova Friburgo, Organ Mountain, March; 1 ex. (Coll. 
Joannis). Related to the group of dubitatella . 
Cryptolechia sciodeta, n. sp. 
$ . 16 mm. Head, thorax yellow-whitish. Palpi whitish, 
second joint fuscous except apex, terminal joint with fuscous sub- 
basal band. Forewings moderate, somewhat dilated, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; yellow- 
whitish, becoming pale ochreous-yellow towards termen; costa 
narrowly grey to near apex ; stigmata grey, plical obliquely beyond 
first diseal; a small spot of greyish suffusion on dorsum at 1 ; an 
irregular streak of fuscous suffusion along termen, and two dots on 
costa before apex: cilia light grey, a dark grey subbasal shade, 
on costa light yellow. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Brazil, Rova Friburgo, Organ Mountain, April; 1 ex. (Coll. 
Joannis). 
Cryptolechia orthrarcha, n. sp. 
5 . 24 mm. Head, thorax pinkish-white. Palpi whitish, second 
joint tinged pinkish-ochreous except apex. Abdomen whitish- 
