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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
spot on base of costa; the markings should have been described as 
silvery-metallic; hindwings blackish. 
Lithocolletis tritorrhecta, n. sp. 
cT • 5-6 mm. Head, thorax bronzy-ochreous, face silvery-whitish. 
Forewings yellow-ochreous; a short slender white unmargined 
basal streak on fold; three narrow rather irregular somewhat 
inwards-oblique white fasciae, angulated just above middle, edged 
anteriorly with irregular black irroration, third interrupted with 
black on angle and not margined above it, its angle connected by 
a white bar with an irregular apical spot of black irroration, in one 
example also connected with angle of second fascia : cilia ochreous- 
whitish, a few black specks near base. Hindwings grey; cilia pale 
grey. 
Japan, Tokyo, July, August {Prof. &. Issiki) ; 3 ex. Allied to 
triarchci Meyr. 
Phrixosceles pteridograpta, n. sp. 
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<5 2 • 6-7 mm. Head, thorax silvery-white. Palpi white, black 
dots at tips of joints, and a greyish median ring on terminal joint. 
Fore wings white; a supramedian series of minute irregular brownish- 
grey marks; a dorsal series of larger oblique brownish-grey strigulse, 
these coalescing to form two irregular longitudinal patches before and 
beyond middle of wing: cilia grey-whitish, very fine greyish sub- 
basal lines above apex and on termen. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale 
greyish. 
Bombay, Salsette I., bred February from larvae on an unidentified 
creeper; “ larva mines a wandering gallery under upper cuticle of 
leaf, wandering to pupate in an external oval white cocoon with 
a row of white bubbles down the centre and four bubbles at the 
margin; larva green, clearly visible in the transparent cocoon, as 
is the pupa, which rolls round vigorously a few days before the 
moth emerges ,J [Mrs. M. L. Maxwell). 
Epicephala venenata, n. sp. 
S . 12 mm. Head whitish, hairs of crown forming a strong 
tuft, grey beneath, projecting over forehead. Palpi smooth, grey. 
Thorax grey. Fore wings very narrow, dark grey, speckled paler 
or whitish on posterior half; a narrow irregularly notched white 
pointed streak along dorsum from base to tornus; a white costal 
dot at 5 , and seven or eight on posterior half; two very oblique 
streaks from beyond tornus reaching half across wing, beyond these 
a straight transverse leaden line, followed by a white streak on 
apical part of termen: cilia pale grey, round apex white with dark 
fuscous basal line and oblique apical hook. Hindwings grey, apical 
third black ; a discal patch of black irroration (doubtless sexual) 
from near base to J-; cilia light grey. 
