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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDORTERA. 
a whitish anterior spot, tegulse coppery-violet, apical half silvery- 
white. Abdomen lilac-grey, anal tuft white. Forewings elongate, 
slightly dilated,-costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather 
obliquely rounded; bright shining crimson-coppery; a moderate 
light greyish-purple dorsal streak from near base to tornus, edge 
somewhat sinuate in middle and rather triangular-prominent 
towards each extremity : cilia grey. Hindwings glossy grey- 
whitish ; apical third suffused greyish-bronze ; cilia whitish-grey. 
New Guinea, Mt. Goliath, 6000 feet, January ( Meek ) ; 1 ex. 
(Coll. Paravicini). Allied to heteroleuca. 
CARPOSINIDiE. 
Meridarchis niphoptila, n. sp. 
S . 22 mm. Head white, face and sides of crown slightly tinged 
reddish. Palpi ferruginous, apical margin white. Antennal cilia- 
tions 2. Thorax ferruginous, slightly mixed whitish. Fore wings 
elongate, hardly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, 
termen faintly sinuate, oblique; 3 and 4 connate; ferruginous, 
dorsal half somewhat lighter except posteriorly; about seven small 
white tufts scattered in disc from near base to end of cell; an 
inwards-oblique white blotch from costa at | reaching half across 
wing, some dark fuscous irroration beyond it near costa ; six partly 
elongate white dots on costa beyond this; a subterminal fascia of 
dark fuscous suffusion edged with about six irregular white dots 
on each side: cilia pale greyish-ochreous, basal half darker and 
slightly speckled ferruginous, white basal dots above and below 
apex. Hindwings grey-whitish; a whitish-ochreous hairpencil 
from base lying on an ochreous bare streak in cell, below this a 
subdorsal spot of sparse black short hairscales; cilia ochreous- 
whitish, a faint greyish median line. 
New Guinea, Mt. Goliath, 6000 feet (Meek ); 1 ex. (Coll. Para¬ 
vicini). Allied to aggerata from Java. 
Meridarchis picroscopa, n. sp. 
rf . 18 mm. Head white. Palpi fuscous, very short terminal 
joint and apical scales of second white. Antennal ciliations 2|. 
Thorax white partially tinged pale brownish, shoulders dark 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather dilated, costa slightly arched, 
apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique ; 3 and 4 stalked; 
white ; more or less undefined infuscation along dorsum, and on a 
postmedian patch extending from dorsum | across wing; a small 
fuscous basal patch, darkest and widest on costa ; a small semioval 
dark fuscous costal spot just beyond this, and two others beyond 
middle ; an elongate dark fuscous antemedian costal spot, with a 
blackish dot resting on middle of lower edge, beneath this in disc 
