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DOUGLASLATEE. 
PROT0CRYPIX8, n. g. 
Head smooth; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. Antennae |, 
c? simple, scape moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderate, 
obliquely ascending, filiform, terminal joint somewhat shorter than 
second, pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. (Posterior tibiae 
missing.) Forewings 2 very short, from angle, 3 absent, 5 absent, 
cell open between 4 and 6, 6 and 8 stalked from angle, 7 absent, 
11 from middle. Hindwings |, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4; 3 and 4 
absent, cell open between 2 and 5, 6 and 7 stalked. 
An obscure insect, but it cannot be referred elsewhere. 
Protocryptis obducta, n. sp. 
<3 . 10 mm. Head, palpi, thorax bronzy-fuscous. Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, apex caudate ; rather dark fuscous : cilia grey. 
Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
Japan, 8apporo, June (S. Issi/ci) ; 1 ex. 
EPERMENIAIEE. 
Epermenia anthracoptila, n. sp. 
3 . 17 mm. Head, palpi, thorax grey speckled whitish. Fore¬ 
wings elongate-lanceolate ; whitish-grey irregularly sprinkled grey ; 
some grey clouding near base, several dark fuscous strigulae on 
anterior third of costa, and two small blackish dots in disc before 
and after |; an inwards-oblique dark grey fascia mixed dark 
fuscous from costa before middle, narrow on dorsum; some 
scattered dark fuscous dots beyond this ; second discal stigma black, 
distinct, obscurely pale-ringed; an irregular anteapieal tuscous 
blotch, angularly projecting anteriorly nearly to reach second discal 
stigma: cilia whitish-grey, four diminishing black scaleteeth on 
dorsum from fascia to torn us, a small ochreous-wliitish spot above 
apex, a short blackish basal line at and beneath apex, some slight 
blackish markings at tips opposite apex. Hindwings light grey; 
cilia whitish-grey. 
Japan, Sapporo, May (S. Issiki) ; 1 ex. Allied to daucella and 
macescens. 
Epimarptis isoloxa, n. sp. 
3 5 . 15-16 mm. Head, thorax light ochreous-yellowish. 
Palpi light ochreous-yellowish, suffused fuscous except towards 
base and tip. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate, widest 
near base, long-pointed; neuration as in philocomci ; light orange- 
yellowish, deeper towards apex ; a dark grey streak along basal 
third of costa ; two thick irregular oblique streaks of dark grey 
irroration from dorsum, first median, reaching | across wing, 
vol. iv.— November , 1931. 
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