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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPXERA. 
by orange suffusion: cilia yellow, becoming grey beneath tornus. 
Hindwings light greyish, apex suffused pale yellow; cilia pale 
greyish, round apex pale yellowish. 
Assam, Shillong, 5000 feet, May, June (T . B. Fletcher ); 2 ex. 
Lecithocera pauperella Reb. 
3 . 9 mm. Head light grey. Antennae white. Eorewings 
termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 long- 
stalked, 7 to apex ; grey irrorated dark grey ; second discal stigma 
suffused, dark grey : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Redescribed from original type from Sudan, Kadugli, kindly lent 
by Vienna Museum. 
Lecithocera semnodora Meyr. 
<3 . 19-21 mm. Head orange. Palpi orange, basal half of second 
joint dark fuscous. Antennae light yellowish (broken). Thorax 
dark purplish-bronze. Eorewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly 
arched, termen faintly sinuate, somewhat oblique ; 2 and 3 stalked, 
7 to just below apex, 8 and 9 out of 7; dark purplish-bronzy- 
fuscous ; a small triangular ochreous-orange spot on costa at |, and 
an opposite dot before tornus ; cilia fuscous. Hindwings 3 and 4 
stalked ; rather dark fuscous-grey ; cilia grey. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, May, November (0. Seydel) ; 3 ex. 
with varietal characters. 
Deltoplastis gypsopeda, n. sp. 
3 . 14 mm. Head, thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulder dark 
fuscous. Antennae whitish ringed rather dark fuscous. Palpi 
second joint whitish-ochreous, posterior surface and fine subapieal 
ring dark fuscous, terminal whitish, anterior and posterior edges 
dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen faintly sinuate, oblique; 
ochreous-whitish; markings fuscous suffusedly mixed blackish; 
a short streak on base of costa ; a large irregular-pentagonal blotch 
extending on dorsum from ^ to middle and reaching across wing; 
a small wedge-shaped mark on costa before middle; a transverse 
bar, enlarged above, on end of cell; a straight fascia at i, narrow 
at extremities but triangularly expanded anteriorly in disc so as 
nearly to approach the preceding bar; some fuscous irroration 
beyond this; terminal edge blackish: cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Hindwings grey; cilia ochreous-whitish, a grey subbasal shade. 
W. China, Mt. Omei, 4000 feet, August ( Franck) ; 1 ex. 
Nearest scopulosa Meyr. 
Ptilothyris crossoceros Meyr. 
I have now seen a female, taken along with the male at Tshibinda, 
Kivu, Belgian Congo (L. Bury eon) (Belg. Cong. Mus.); this sex 
differs in having the hindwings wholly blackish. 
