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EXOTIC MICBOLEPID0PTEBA . 
Gracilaria platycosma Meyr. 
Bred July from larvae rolling leaves of Litseci glutinosa ( Lauvacece ) 
(J. C. Hutson ). 
Gracilaria palsarcha, n. sp. 
2 . 10 mm. Head brownish-purple, face pale -brassy-yellow. 
Palpi whitish, apex dark fuscous. Thorax purple-whitish, anterior 
edge suffused purple. Fore wings broader than usual, obtuse- 
pointed ; purple, tinged brown in certain lights ; an oblique pale 
brassj^-yellow spot touching base in middle ; a pale brassy-yellow 
sharply defined triangular blotch extending on costa from -1 to 
its apex touching dorsum in middle, sides edged with a few blackish 
specks, posterior slightly serrate ; immediately adjoining this a pale 
brassy-yellow wedge-shaped spot along costa to near apex, suffused 
fulvous beneath ; posterior part of dorsal and terminal edge slightly 
strigulated dark fuscous: cilia dark fulvous-brown, with rows of 
darker points, a basal dot of yellowish suffusion at tornus. Hind- 
wings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Fiji, Lautoka, bred March from larvae feeding on leaves of 
an Euphorbiaceous shrub ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.), A fine and interest¬ 
ing species. 
Gracilaria citrochrysa, n. sp. 
3 . 7-9 mm. Head silvery-whitish, crown tinged grey, collar 
and thorax pale yellow. Palpi whitish, a black subapical ring. 
Antennae grey, whitish towards base above, scape black. Forewings 
narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; clear brassy-yellow; a very small 
blackish spot on middle of costa, about ten minute black specks 
between this and base, and one or two posteriorly; a slender 
streak of greyish suffusion and dark bluish-fuscous strigulation 
from apex along upper part of termen : cilia grey. Hindwings and 
cilia grey. 
BraAE, Pusa, bred August, September from white silken cocoons 
on surface of leaves of Putranjiva Koxburghii (Euphorbiacece ) 
(Fletcher); 3 ex. Allied to recitata and thymophanes. 
Lithocolletis fasciformis, n. sp. 
<32-5 mm. Head and thorax light rufous-brownish, face and 
forehead white, a very fine blackish pencil at base of antennae. 
Palpi white, a very fine blackish line on terminal joint. Forewings 
rufous-brownish; small marks of black irroration on costa at and 
near base ; a curved streak of black irroration from dorsum near 
base to middle of first fascia, with a projection upwards to near 
costa ; two narrow white fasciae at ^ and beyond middle, slightly 
inwards-oblique from costa, each including a fine streak or line of 
black irroration slightly angulated towards costa, between these 
a thicker irregular streak of black irroration from dorsum reaching 
| across wing; a narrow irregular slightly incurved fascia of black 
irroration from dorsum at | to costa at -i, edged white above 
in middle and towards costa ; a third more or less expressed white 
fascia including a slender streak of black irroration from tornus to 
