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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
a long spreading pencil of whitish hairs rising from, upper surface 
of hindwings beneath costa near base directed dorsally. 
Limnoecia pentachrysis, n. sp. 
$.11 mm. Head white. Palpi fuscous. Thorax white, 
tegulae fuscous. Forewings fuscous ; a white dorsal streak from 
base to |; posterior half of wing whitish-yellowish, limited by 
a curved oblique white line from costa to near dorsum, with 
a short branch in disc, and including on dorsum towards tornus 
a series of five approximated golden-metallic transverse dots separ¬ 
ated by black : cilia white. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish. 
Java {Dr. W. Roeplce) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Hus.). Allied to chrysidota. 
Limnoecia tetramitra, n. sp. 
S . 9 mm. Head, palpi white. Antennae pale greyish-ochreous, 
scape white. Thorax brownish, tegulae white except shoulder. 
Forewings widest near base, thence narrowed to pointed apex ; 
brownish ; three direct .enow-white fascia, first near base, narrow, 
slightly curved, second before middle, broad, narrowed on costa, 
third at |, broad, widest in middle, where it is cut by a fine streak 
of groundcolour except on anterior edge; a subfriangular white 
apical blotch, partly in cilia : cilia pale brownish becoming greyish 
towards tornus ; a black hook limiting white apical blotch. Hind¬ 
wings and cilia grey. 
Burma, Mandalay, March (T . B. Fletcher') ; 1 ex. 
Ascalenia sclerodes Meyr. 
Sudan, Gendetta and Zeidab, bred from larvae feeding on spun 
flowers of Acacia nilotica and A. arabica. 
Ascalenia centropselia, n. sp. 
B . 9 mm. Head fuscous with whitish reflections. Palpi dark 
fuscous, terminal joint somewhat speckled whitish anteriorly. 
Thorax fuscous speckled darker. Forewings dark fuscous, bases of 
scales pale, forming a fine transverse striolation ; base narrowly 
blackish i plical stigma black, placed in a slender somewhat oblique 
fascia of dark fuscous suffusion ; a transverse whitish line at |, 
including in a ring small black second discal stigma : cilia light 
grey. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
India, Nagpur, February ( T . B. Fletcher) ; 3 ex. 
Ascalenia gastrocosma, n. sp. 
B $ • 6-7 mm. Head, thorax grey or dark grey, extreme 
margins of scales whitish. Palpi dark fuscous speckled whitish. 
Abdomen B iridescent blue-whitish, apex and sides towards apex 
black, valvse whitish ; $ 4 basal segments blue-black, remainder 
dark grey, all segmental margins white, some reddish tinge towards 
base. Forewings dark grey speckled whitish: plical and second 
