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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
centre ; larva bright blue-green,- wandered actively to pupate, 
burrowed in fine earth put in the bottom of the bottle, and spun 
its cocoon amongst this; two moths bred but one escaped” 
(Mrs. M. L. Maxwell ). 
Nepticula auxozona, n. sp. 
$. 3 mm. Head orange-yellow, eyecaps ochreous-whitish. 
Thorax dark fuscous. Forewings dark fuscous ; a broad slightly 
oblique whitish fascia somewhat beyond middle, occupying about \ 
of wing, slightly narrowed towards costa, posterior area more 
blackish: cilia dark fuscous, a darker subbasal line round apex. 
Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Java, bred March from larva mining leaf of unidentified plant 
(Dr. L. E. G. KalsJioven) ; 1 ex. Easily known by the unusually 
broad fascia. 
Nepticula melanospila, n. sp. 
c?. 3 mm. Head fuscous, eyecaps light greyish-ochreous. 
Eorewings pale grey, thinly sprinkled coarse black scales; an 
oblique blackish spot from^costa reaching half across wing; an oval 
blackish spot above tornus : cilia pale greyish, irrorated black on 
basal half. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
Bombay, Matheran, 2500 feet, bred May from larvae “ mining a 
minute wandering gallery earlier in the month in leaf of Randia 
dumetoram (Rubiacece ) ; larva wanders and burrows in earth ; 
much parasitised ” (Mrs. M. L. Maxwell ); 1 ex. Allied to 
sporadopa Meyr. 
Neptieula clinomochla, n. sp. 
S . 3 mm. Head and eyecaps pale ochreous. Forewings 
whitish-ochreous, thinly sprinkled blackish-gre} r , more closely 
in middle of disc on anterior half; an oblique blackish fascia from 
middle of costa to tornus, there meeting at a right angle a terminal 
fascia of blackish-grey irroration : cilia grey, round apex ochreous- 
whitish with basal half sprinkled blackish. Hindwings and cilia 
whitish-grey. 
Bombay, Matheran, 2500 feet, bred June from larva “ mining in 
May a wandering gallery in leaf of Bridelia retusa (Euphorbiacece), 
pupated in fine earth and debris; this was actually bred from the 
leaves on which the new Aristotelia was feeding, but the fine 
gallery was not noticed until the moth emerged ” (Mrs. M. L. 
Maxwell) ; 1 ex. 
Nepticula oligosperma, n. sp. 
£ . 4 mm. Head pale oehreous-yellowish, centre of crown 
suffused dark grey, eyecaps whitish. Forewings yellow-whitish, 
thinly sprinkled coarse dark fuscous, at apex forming a small 
accumulation: cilia whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Bombay, Bombay City, January (R. M. Maxwell ) ; 1 ex. 
