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EXOTIC MICROLEPLDOPTERA. 
dark grey anteriorly. Thorax light grey. Forewings lanceolate, 
acute ; grey, bases of scales whitish, forming a fine regular trans¬ 
verse sfcriolation, costal third tinged light brownish-ochreous, 
extreme costal edge whitish; in one example a short oblique dark 
grey mark from costa at ^ ; stigmata represented by obscure light 
brownish-ochreous oval spots, plical obliquely before first discal, 
followed by a dark fuscous dot: cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings 
whitish-grey ; cilia over 2 , grey-whitish. 
Tibet, Gyantse, 13,000 feet; June, July ( Colonel F. M. Bailey ); 
2 ex. 
Phthorimaea inter] uncta, n. sp. 
<3 $ . 11-12 mm. Head white sprinkled fuscous. Palpi white 
sprinkled fuscous, second and terminal joints each with two dark 
fuscous bands. Thorax white irrorated fuscous. Forewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen obliquely 
rounded; white, irregularly and suffusedly irrorated fuscous, with 
scattered dark fuscous scales ; black subcostal and subdorsal dashes 
from base; a black streak along fold from base to near extremity, 
and one from middle of digc to apex, in one specimen these united 
into a single sinuate streak; discal stigmata sometimes forming 
linear marks separate from this: cilia white sprinkled fuscous and 
dark fuscous. Hindwings grey-whitish, sometimes speckled light 
grey ; cilia whitish. 
Brazil, Santa Rita, Joazeiro, March, May ( Penther ); 3 ex. (type 
Vienna Mus.). 
MEROCRATES, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed. 
Antennae |, <3 shortly ciliated, scape elongate, without pecten. 
Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint thickened with 
appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute. 
Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 
tibiae rough-scaled above. Forewings 1 b furcate, 2 and 3 long- 
stalked from angle, 4 and 5 almost from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 
7 to costa, 9 absent, 10 and 11 approximated from near middle. 
Hindwings 1|, trapezoidal-ovate, termen hardly sinuate, cilia 5 ; 
3 and 4 connate, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 rather approxi¬ 
mated at base. 
Belongs to Protolechia group. 
Merocrates themelias, n. sp. 
,3 . 16 mm. Head whitish-yellow. Palpi dark fuscous, tip of 
second joint and base and anterior edge of terminal joint whitish- 
yellow. Thorax dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, slightly 
dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, 
almost vertical; dark fuscous ; a broad antemedian pale yellow 
band not quite reaching costa, extending beneath costa from ^ to 
middle, dilated downwards and extending on dorsum from ^ to 
near first discal stigma forming a dark fuscous dot in this; bases 
of scales on posterior half of wing whitish-hyaline; a cloudy 
