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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Machimia diagrapha, n. sp. 
<$. 15 mm. Head, thorax pale ochreous-yellowish. Palpi 
whitish-ochreous, apex of second joint and subapical ring of 
terminal blackish-grey. Forewings moderate, costa gently arched, 
apex rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; light yellow ; 
an elongate blackish-grey mark beneath base of costa, from 
beneath which a slender crimson streak runs to costa at | but 
sometimes not reaching it, and a branch of this from 5 towards 
termen beneath apex, at tip suffused or branched and not reaching 
it; from middle two narrow blackish-grey streaks diverging to 
dorsum at \ and tornus, interrupted by the crimson streaks, second 
with a fine imperfect branch from middle of inner edge to fold, 
where it is connected by a crimson line along fold with first; a 
crimson dorsal line, thickened near base, continued round termen 
to costa at f, round apex and upper part of termen more or less 
edged anteriorly blackish-grey : cilia yellow, on tornus a grey bar. 
Hindwings whitisli-grey-yellowish ; cilia whitish-yellowish. 
Paraguay, Asuncion (Ft JSchcicle) ; 3 ex. (type Vienna Mus.). 
Arctoscelis epinyctia Meyr. 
Varies considerably, groundcolour sometimes whitish anteriorly, 
towards median area and on apical third suffused blackish, or often 
wholly blackish, usually a subbasal fascia of whitish or yellowish 
suffusion, and an angulated whitish postmedian line. 
Bengal, Buxa Division, bred April, May from Amoora Wallichii 
(Forest liesearch Institute); 8 ex. 
Depressaria niphosyrphas, n. sp. 
5 . 23 mm. Head grey speckled white, face whitish. Palpi 
stout, whitish mixed greyish-ochreous, second joint blaclush- 
fuscous except apical fourth, terminal joint with two dark grey 
bands. Thorax white, shoulders and anterior margin of dorsum 
grey. Forwings moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 
termen obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 remote; grey sprinkled 
darker; an irregular suffused grey-whitish streak, slightly sprinkled 
blackish, along costa from base to |-, extended at base to dorsum, 
from this to g margined black beneath, some darker grey suffusion 
on basal fourth extending to dorsum ; first discal stigma blackish, 
transverse, beyond this a lobe of whitish suffusion projecting from 
costal streak ; two or three short blackish dashes towards costa 
beyond middle; second discal stigma obscure, whitish; an indistinct 
acutely angulated shade of whitish irroration from end of costal 
streak to tornus ; a marginal series of cloudy subconfluent dots of 
whitish irroration round apical part of costa and termen: cilia 
grey, basal fourth dark grey obscurely barred whitish, between 
tips of bars grey-whitish. Hindwings 5 somewhat curved basally 
but remote from 4; light grey; cilia grey-whitish, faint grey 
subbasal and subapical shades. 
E. Siberia, S. Ussuri, Narva, July (V. KardaJcoff); 1 ex. 
