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EXOTIC MICROLEPIPOriERA. 
rings. Antennae white ringed dark fuscous. Fore wings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 6 
separate ; pale bluish-grey with tips of scales white, forming a very 
fine transverse striolation, some scattered blackish scales ; costal 
edge white from near base to |, with small dark grey marks at | 
and -f, a small oblique wedgeshaped dark grey spot in middle, and 
four or five small spots on posterior half; stigmata indicated by 
undefined groups of blackish irroration, plical rather obliquely 
beyond first discal; apical fourth suffused grey, with darker grey 
irroration towards termen : cilia grey slightly speckled whitish, a 
dark grey subbasal line 4 Hindwings pale bluish-grey; cilia light 
grey. 
Japan, Osaka, July {Prof. S. Issiki ); 1 ex. 
Eporgastis asaphocosma, n. sp. 
(5 . 9 mm. Head whitish, in one example tinged ferruginous. 
Palpi whitish, second joint externally or mostly fuscous, terminal 
joint sometimes suffused blackish. Thorax fuscous. Forewings 
elongate, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded ; fuscous ; an oblique fasciate whitish blotch in disc before 
middle, more or less nearly approaching both margins but not 
reaching them, enclosing a ferruginous-brown area sometimes 
filling whole blotch except edge or reduced to a spot in lower end ; 
a small ferruginous-fuscous spot ringed whitish representing second 
discal stigma ; a small whitish spot on costa at -4, whence some¬ 
times an obscure white sinuate line runs to tornus : cilia fuscous 
mixed darker, a whitish basal line. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled 
in disc ; cilia light grey. 
Madagascar ; 7 ex. (type Vienna Mus.). Apparently very 
variable ; nearly resembles the African Brachmia pantherojpa Meyr., 
but the palpi are quite different. 
Trichotaphe atricordis, n. sp. 
$ . 14 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark iron-grey. Forewings 
iron-grey; a large cordate black blotch in disc before middle, not 
reaching margins ; a black mark on middle of costa ; second discal 
stigma forming a black dot, in one wing slightly ringed brownish ; 
an obtusely angulated brown line from a whitish mark on costa at | 
to tornus, edged blackish posteriorly, terminal area beyond this dark 
grey, with a marginal series of black dots : cilia dark grey. Hind¬ 
wings dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 
Sierra Leone, Njala, January (E . Hargreaves ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Ptilothyris crossoceros, n. sp. 
rf . 19-20 mm. Head, thorax dark purple. Antennae joints 
elongate, with apical whorls of sparse coarse scales and two series of 
fascicles of long cilia rising from tip of single scales ; ochreous- 
yellowish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched towards 
