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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPXERA. 
series of small blackish spots, outer third fuscous. Hindwings 
colour, irroration, second line, terminal spots, and cilia as in fore- 
wings, anterior markings absent, discal spot reduced to a bar 
continuous with lower segment of second line. 
Fiji, Vunidawa, March, September ( H . Phillips)', 3 ex. (type 
Brit. Mus.). 
Prototyla haemoxantha, n. sp. 
S . 28 mm. Head, palpi, thorax orange-yellow suffusedly mixed 
deep orange, apex of tegulse ferruginous. Antennae orange, with 
median sinuation and scaletuft, some ferruginous suffusion on this 
sinuation, and also at base and | of stalk. Forewings elongate- 
triangular, costa arched towards apex, termen bowed, rather 
oblique ; orange, mottled ferruginous ; markings dark ferruginous ; 
an irregular spot on base of costa, and one on dorsum near base; 
first line at j, very fine, irregular, rather oblique, forming a spot 
beneath costa; orbicular represented by a transverse bar extended 
to vein 16, discal also by a transverse bar, some slight ferruginous 
sprinkling in disc; second line represented hy a rather thick line 
preceded by a band of irroration from of costa to tornus, and a 
separate inner slightly bent segment from before middle of vein 2 
to dorsum at |: cilia dark ferruginous spotted yellowish. Hind- 
wings pale violet-yellowish; second line forming a faint violet 
shade on upper half of wing, terminal area beyond this faintly 
speckled ferruginous; cilia whitish-yellowish spotted grey suffusion. 
Fiji, Vunidawa, April {II. Phillips)’, 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
PHYCITID^E. 
Anerastia stricticostella Bag. 
I agree with the conclusions expressed by Dr. A. J. Turner 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xlviii, 451, 1923) that Hypsotropa 
and several other genera are not rightly separable from Anerastia , 
which name I use in the established sense which Hampson has 
unadvisedly attempted to vary. Further, I have now seen sufficient 
material of both sexes of Mesodiphlebia stricticostella Bag. and 
Hypsotropa infumatellci Hamps., all taken together at Elisabeth- 
ville by Mons. C. Seydel, viz. 12 of the former form and 9 of the 
latter, to satisfy me that these two supposed species, attributed by 
their authors to separate genera on structural differences correctly 
ascertained, are in fact one and the same. The sole difference is in 
the veins of the hindwings; in the latter form 3 and 4 are long- 
stalked, in the former they are coincident (merely an extreme case 
of the other); in all other respects, structural and superficial, I can 
see no difference. This breaks down the only distinction claimed 
between the two genera; but as this is the only African insect 
