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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
spots at apex and tornus and midway between these : cilia ochreous- 
whitish with a series of minute fuscous specks. Hindwings rather 
dark grey; cilia light greyish-ochreous or greyish. 
Japan, Tokyo, July {Prof. S . Issilci ); 3 ex. Allied and very 
similar to the Indian orsicoma Meyr., but that species has not the 
black thoracic bar or basal spot of dorsum. 
Telphusa comprobata, n. sp. 
5 . 15 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second and terminal 
joints each with blackish subbasal band, in one example also a 
supramedian band on terminal joint. Thorax white, two blackish 
dots on posterior margin. Eorewings 7 and 8 out of 6; white; 
markings blackish ; a basal patch, edge running from costa at ^ to 
dorsum at f ; a broad oblique posterior band, on costa extending 
from ■§ to f, suddenly narrowed near dorsum to tornus, its posterior 
angle confluent in disc with a blotch on costa just before apex : 
cilia white, on costal area faintly tinged grey. Hindwings and 
cilia light grey. 
Japan (Honsyu), Yumot'o, August {Prof. S. Issiki ); 2 ex. The 
neuration of forewings is abnormal, but the species is allied in all 
respects otherwise to the Chinese group of euryzeucta Meyr., and 
the identical abnormality occurs rarely in Phthorimaea, and I have 
tolerated it there for the same reasons ; in Chelaria it occurs as 
frequently as the normal form, but is always constant specifically. 
Telphusa platyphracta, n. sp. 
S $ • 12 mm. Head whitish irrorated grey. Palpi whitish, 
basal half and subapical ring of second joint, and two rings or 
bands of terminal joint black. Thorax grey-whitish ( $ ) or light 
grey ( $ ), shoulders and anterior edge marked black. Forewings 
ochreous-grey-whitish ; a small blackish spot on base of costa, 
dorsal edge in £ blackish-grey towards base ; a rather broad 
oblique black fascia about | ; a variable small blackish spot on 
middle of costa; an irregular oblong blackish blotch on costa 
about §, two small black spots near or forming lower angles of this, 
and two others beneath this on fold, second sometimes absorbed in 
a black tornal spot; some grey suffusion and indications of blackish 
dots round apical margin : cilia greyish. Hindwings grey, thinly 
scaled, towards base tinged whitish ; cilia grey. 
Bombay, Shelarvadi, bred February from larvae feeding on leaves 
of Oclina wodier { Anacardiacece ); “a minute larva in September 
mines internally and ejects a little heap of excrement at an open 
end of the mine ; then it emerges and feeds externally under a 
little shelter formed of a partially cut circle of leaf and excrement; 
eventually it wanders to the long pointed tip of the leaf which it 
sews up with about five strong strands of silk, and it lives in the 
tunnel thus formed under a stout web and emerges from this to 
feed on the cuticle; a lot of parasites were bred, but at the end of 
October a larva was found to be lying over, having changed to a 
