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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
anteriorly with blaokish scales, and followed by a blackish costal 
spot; a blotch of blackish irroration on dorsum towards tornus, 
including two or three white dots anteriorly ; white spots edged 
irregular black irroration at apex and middle of termen : cilia 
orange. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
W. China, Mt. Omei, 4200 feet, July ; 2 ex. Allied to spin- 
theritis and epistacta. 
LEPIDECHIDNA, n. g. 
Head with coarse dense erect scales ; ocelli posterior; tongue 
developed. Antennae J-, scape elongate, expanded above with dense 
rough scales. Labial palpi very long, recurved, expanded anteriorly 
throughout almost to apex with long dense rough spatulate scales, 
terminal joint as long as second, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 
Thorax with broad loosely raised scales. Abdomen broad, flattened. 
Hind tibiae rough-scaled above and beneath. Porewings with 
scales loosely raised, on basal half with groups of long erect spatulate 
scales ; 2 from 4, 3-5 approximated from angle, 6 to apex (indefinite), 
7 and 8 stalked, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal-ovate, 
cilia \ ; 2 from J, 3 and 4 short- 6 talked from angle, 5 curved 
connate, 6 and 7 parallel. 
Lepidechidna acharnias, n. sp. 
5. 25-26 mm. Head blackish-fuscous, face fuscous. Palpi 
pale ochreous sprinkled dark fuscous, more or less suffused blackish 
anteriorly, tips of scales whitish. Thorax blackish-fuscous, apex of 
tegulse ochreous-whitish. Porewings elongate, costa moderately 
arched, apex rounded, termen rather obliquely rounded ; greyish- 
ochreous or dull brownish, a few scattered blackish scales ; undefined 
blotches of dark fuscous or blackish suffusion towards base of dorsum, 
and in disc about 3 , and |, last extended to costa as a rather 
oblique semifascia ; some blackish irroration on costa and anteriorly, 
and indicating slight submarginal dots round apex and termen : 
cilia greyish-ochreous. Hindwings pale greyish-ochreous, slightly 
speckled fuscous ; cilia pale grejdsh-oehreous. 
Morocco, Casablanca, 3 ex. ; “ larva 15-18 mm. long, 4 mm. 
broad ; head brown ; body almost glabrous, greenish-white or very 
pale brown ; living in galleries excavated in the interior of the 
flowerhead of Cynara scolymus, in the flower-stalks, or in the main 
vein of the leaf; in the last case the gallery is open on the upper 
surface, but generally extends into a closed gallery in the stem 
running up or down ; emergence of imago from middle of May to 
July ’’ (R. Bouhelier). This is the insect which I recorded (supr. 
p. 475) erroneously as a freshly emerged example of Depresscirici 
cynarivora, a similar and nearly related species feeding on the same 
plant; from the receipt of further specimens and information I now 
perceive it must be distinct; it remains an extremely curious 
case. 
