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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
riorly black irroration; a praeapical spot of fuscous and black 
speckling, extended into apical projection : cilia white, a brownish 
apical spot speckled black. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish. 
Bombay, Surat, January, February {Maxwell) ; 3 ex. 
Opogona isotalanta, n. sp. 
S . 10 mm. Head, thorax bronzy-fuscous, fillet, face, palpi, 
antennae whitish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate, acute ; shining 
brassy-yellow ; a bronzy-fuscous basal patch occupying about of 
wing, edge direct, rather irregular, apical fourth bronzy-fuscous, 
edge similar: cilia pale greyish. Hindwings grey; cilia light 
grey. 
Madras, Palnis, Kodaikanal, 7000 feet, September (. Fletcher ); 
1 ex. Nearest lamprophanes from Ceylon. 
Opogona trichoceros, n. sp. 
rj . 13 mm. Head, thorax dark purplish-fuscous, crown smooth, 
face and palpi whitish-ochreous. Antennae grey, strongly ciliated 
(3). Abdomen orange-yellow. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, 
apex rather produced; dark purplish-fuscous; an orange-yellow 
elongate mark on costa about |; an orange-yellow subquadrate 
blotch on dorsum towards base, its upper posterior angle produced 
into a long pointed projection : cilia dark grey. Hindwings dark 
fuscous, basal half orange-yellow, division suffused ; cilia grey, on 
basal half of wing yellow. 
British New Guinea, Hydrographer Mts., 2500 feet ( Eichhorn ) ; 
1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). Allied to pyrangela , but the antennal 
ciliation not so long, though exceptionally developed. 
Machimostola habryntis, n. sp. 
$ $ . 9-10 mm. Head white, frontal hairs dark fuscous. Palpi 
white, a blackish lateral line. Thorax white, humeral edge 
blackish. Fore wings narrow, apex caudate ; white ; a black streak 
along basal fourth of costa ; oblique rhomboidal black spots on 
costa at middle and |, separated by an equal white spot, reaching 
^ across wing and continued beneath by similar suffused fuscous 
spots ; a very oblique black wedgeshaped streak from dorsum ante¬ 
riorly to disc at |, some fuscous suffusion between apex of this 
and costal streak; beyond this some irregular blackish strigulatioiij 
followed by a black streak along edge of tornal area ; three or four 
subconfluent fuscous strigse crossing apical area, and a round black 
apical dot: cilia giey-whitish, with a median black line, at apex 
a projecting blackish hook, and on termen dark fuscous basal and 
subbasal shades separated by yellowish. Hindwings light grey ; 
cilia pale grey. 
Madras, Palnis, Kodaikanal, 7000 feet, September, “sitting on 
rotten tree-stumps, where it is very inconspicuous ; larva probably 
feeding in rotten wood ’ Matcher) ; 3 ex. Nearest protelesta ; 
the suggestion as to larva habits is probably correct. 
