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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
on costa : cilia white. Hindwings pale ochreous-yellowish, tinged 
whitish towards base ; cilia white, base tinged pale yellowish. 
Forewings and hindwings beneath pale ochreous-yellowish. 
Brazil ( Schott ); 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
Macliaeropteris euthysana, n. sp. 
<5. 14 mm. Head, palpi ochreous-grey-whitish, hairs of palpi 
sprinkled dark grey. Thorax light grey irrorated dark fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly rounded, oblique ; 7 and 8 connate, 7 to apex ; pale grey, 
partially suffused leaden in disc, elosely irrorated dark fuscous : 
cilia pale greyish, sprinkled dark fuscous (imperfect). Hindwings 
rather darx purplish-grey; cilia grey. Anal tuft of very fine 
spreading greyish hairs. Posterior tibiae above with fringe of very 
long fine spreading greyish hairs. 
Sierra Leone, Njala, April, at light (E. Hargreaves ) ; 1 ex. 
(Brit. Mus.). 
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Hapsifera petaloxantha, n. sp. 
cJ 2 • 13-18 mm. Head, thorax- grey sprinkled dark fuscous. 
Palpi grey, terminal joint whitish. Fore wings elongate, costa 
posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 
rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked, 9 connate ; grey or whitish, irregularly 
irrorated black ; several irregularly placed tufts of long erectile 
whitish hairs in disc ; an orange blotch occupying apical fourth, 
crossed before its middle by a sometimes interrupted transverse bar 
of black irroration, and extreme apex irrorated black: cilia pale 
greyish-ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia grey-whitish. 
Cameroons, Lolodorf ( Conradt ) ; 3 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). In 
imperfect condition, but very easily recognised ; allied to erinacea , 
but distinguished by the clear orange apical blotch. 
Hapsifera arsiptiia, n. sp. 
S $ . 16-21 mm. Head, thorax light greyish-ochreous (dis¬ 
coloured). Palpi pale greyish-ochreous, second joint sprinkled 
dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, very oblique; 7 and 8 stalked; 
whitish, irrorated blackish and brownish-ochreous scales tending to 
form irregular transverse series or streaks ; costa with about 7 or 8 
brownish spots, first two continued as fascise to fold ; about 
10 irregularly placed erectile tufts of long pale ochreous hairscales: 
cilia whitish, somewhat sprinkled ochreous and blackish. Hind- 
wings rather dark grey, veins darker; cilia grey. 
Cameroons, Lolodorf, February ( Conradt ) ; 2 ex. (Coll. Para¬ 
vicini). Also allied to erinacea . 
Mythoplastis chalcochra, n. sp. 
S . 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light ochreous, tegulae brown. 
Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, 
