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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPIERA. 
joint suffused dark fuscous anteriorly. Antennae dark fuscous, apical 
half ochreous-white. Forewings rather narrow, costa hardly arched 
except towards obtuse apex, termen nearly straight, somewhat 
oblique ; deep fuscous-purple : cilia dark purplish-grey. Hindwings 
blackish ; a subhyaline grey-whitish or } r ellow band extending 
through disc from base to near apex, cut by blackish veins ; cilia 
dark grey, basal third blackish. 
Uganda, Kampala, April, December (G . H. E. Hopkins ) ; 3 ex. 
(type Brit. Mus.). 
Brachmia macroscopa n. sp. 
<$ $ . 18 mm. Head, thorax fuscous. Palpi fuscous, terminal 
joint darker. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly 
somewhat dilated, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, 
apex obtuse, termen rather oblique ; 9 separate; fuscous, cell and 
dorsum suffused darker, veins marked with obscure darker lines ; 
discal stigmata indicated by small oval brownish spots enclosed in 
a suffused dark fuscous longitudinal mark and laterally edged 
grey-whitish, plical slightly indicated similarly, beneath first discal; 
a faint brownish transverse shade at f, obtuse-angled in middle ; 
a marginal series of distinct blackish dots round apical par tof costa 
and termen : cilia fuscous. Hindwings grey-whitish, veins suffused 
grey ; cilia grey-whitish, two faint greyish shades. 
Kashmir, Srinagar, 5200 feet, October (2 T . B. Fletcher ) ; Japan, 
Kii, Hasimoto, September ($. lssiki) ; 2 ex. Between convolvuli 
and xerastis. 
Brachmia planicola, n. sp. 
S . 13 mm. Head light ochreous-yellow. Palpi ochreous- 
whitish, second joint fuscous except apex. Antennae stout. Thorax 
brownish. Forewings rather elongate, somewhat dilated, costa 
gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded; 
9 separate ; light brownish, slightly darker-sprinkled; stigmata 
obscure, dark brown, plical slightly beyond first discal; cilia pale 
brownish. Hindwings gre} 7 ; cilia light greyish. 
Madras, Waltair, May {Mrs. Fletcher ); 2 ex. 
Autosticha demias Meyr. 
In the ‘ Genera Insectorum ’ I sank this (of which the original 
unique example is not in my possession) as a supposed synonym of 
the familiar Stoeberhinus testacea $ , but having now seen two 
further examples of it from Lautoka, Fiji {H. Phillips ), I find it to 
be undoubtedly a good species of Autosticha, as correctly described 
in the first instance. 
TINEIDJE. 
CRYPHIOTECHNA, n. g. 
Head rough-haired ; ocelli posterior ; tongue absent. Antennae 
|, scape moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, 
rather slender, second joint with short apical bristles, terminal 
