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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
PHYSOPTILIim 
Physoptila pinguivora, n. sp. 
J 5 • 14-18 mm. Head, thorax white or whitish partially 
tinged crimson, thorax sometimes with email posterior spot of 
blackish speckling. Palpi white, second joint partially tinged or 
speckled crimson, terminal joint with two blackish-grey bands. 
Forewings elongate, apex acutely produced, subfaleate ; white, 
more or less irregularly suffused pinkish-grey and speckled grey 
except towards costa anteriorly, costal edge blackish on basal fourth, 
an appressed fringe of white scales beneath costa anteriorly ; a small 
dark grey spot on middle of costa, and blackish dot in-disc beneath 
this; a black dot in disc about and some variable scattered raised 
black scales posteriorly : cilia whitish speckled grey. Hind wings 
grey darker towards apex; cilia whitish more or less suffused grey. 
Java, Telawa, bred October from larvae boring in shoots of 
PlancJionici valida (Dr. L. G. E. Kalshoven ). Pupa irregularly 
strewn dorsally with small conical spines, with median series of 
similar spines on abdominal segments, abdomen elongate-cylindrical. 
This, the second species of the genus and family (the first bred 
20 years ago by R. M. “Maxwell and not to my knowledge taken 
since), is very similar to the first yet quite distinct ; it confirms my 
expressed opinion of the very isolated nature of the genus, which 
I now perceive to have no relation to the Xyloryctidoe as I formerly 
suggested. The peculiar neuration indicates probable relationship 
with the Metachandidce , with which it might possibly be associated 
as an extreme form, though there is no general resemblance. 
METACHANDIDCE. 
Ancylometis isophaula, n. sp. 
<3. 10 mm. Head, thorax pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi pale 
brownish-ochreous, terminal joint whitish with dark fuscous 
supramedian ring. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated, costa 
gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous 
irregularly sprinkled brownish ; a cloudy dark brown dot beneath 
costa near base ; stigmata dark brown, plical hardly beyond first 
diseal, a dark brown dash between discal more or less expressed ; 
some brown suffusion between second discal and costa, and apical 
and terminal area irregularly suffused brown : cilia whity-brownish 
(damaged). Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish. 
Madagascar ; 1 ex. (Yienna Mus.). Ts early allied to scaeosema 
Meyr. from Reunion. 
HELIOZELIDCE. 
Keliozela subpurpurea, n. sp. 
£ . 7 mm. Head shining bronzy-fuscous. Thorax rather dark 
bronzy-fuscous. Forewings rather dark purplish-bronzy-fuscous ; 
