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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
from beneath costa near base. Fore wings beneath with an expan¬ 
sible hairpencil of long whitish-grey hairs reaching from base to 
beyond middle resting on a black streak beneath cell. 
Cameroons, Lolodorf, Febrary ( Conradt ); 1 ex. (Coll. Paravieini). 
Chelaria sorograpta, n. sp. 
3 .11 mm. Head whitish-grey-ochreous. Palpi whitish, second 
joint with short triangular tuft beneath, dark fuscous except apical 
edge, terminal joint with four dark fuscous bands. Thorax grey 
irrorated darker. Forewings elongate, widest towards base and 
narrowed posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
very obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 out of 6 ; grey irrorated whitish ; 
black costal, median, and dorsal marks near base, and one on costa 
at %; a semioval black spot on middle of costa; an irregular patch 
of black mottling extending on dorsum from -L to § and reaching 
about half across wing, within this two small pale yellowish tufts 
placed transversely in disc beneath median costal spot; a small 
blackish spot on costa at |, and discal dot beneath this ; some 
suffused dark fuscous spots and mottling occupying apical fourth : 
cilia grey, some minute whitish speckling. Hindwings thinly 
scaled, greyish, veins and marginal edges suffused dark grey ; cilia 
grey. 
Sudest I., Mt. Riu, 2000 feet, April ( Eichhorn ); 1 ex. (Coll. 
Paravieini). Allied to meliptila , but without the pale yellow 
posterior discal tuft of that species, which, moreover, has vein 6 
separate. 
Chelaria tephroptila, n. sp. 
3 . 15 mm. Head, thorax whitish-grey. Palpi grey-whitish, 
second joint with two grey projecting tufts beneath", second barred 
darker, terminal joint longer than second, with dark grey median 
band of thickened scales forming a short double projection posteriorly. 
Forewings elongate, narrowed from before middle, termen extremely 
oblique ; 6 separate; whitish irrorated light fuscous ; a short fine 
black line from base beneath costa ; a dark fuscous triangular patch 
extending on costa from F to its apex almost reaching dorsum 
in middle, with two large discal tufts within its anterior edge, two 
others beyond these, and two at f, of which the lower falls outside 
the patch, these tufts tipped leaden-grey : cilia fuscous-whitish, 
three bars of grey suffusion. Hindwings light grey, thinly scaled 
and purplish-subhyaline in disc, veins grey ; cilia light grey. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, December (R. M. Maxwell ); 1 ex. 
Chelaria stasimodes, n. sp. 
3 .21 mm. Head brownish. Palpi whitish, second joint with 
large rounded anterior tuft occupying whole length, irregularly 
suffused brownish, terminal joint longer than second, thickened 
with projecting scales posteriorly except base and apex, with five 
oblique dark fuscous rings. Thorax white irregularly mixed or 
speckled grey. Forewings rather narrow, costa slightly arched, 
