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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
triangular yellow spot on costa at its apex just touching termen : 
cilia grey, round apex yellowish. Hindwings pale grey, base 
whitish, apex darker grey; cilia dark grey. 
Solomons, Guadalcanal, September, u on Citrus ” ( H . T. Pagden ); 
1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Persicoptila heliatma, n. sp. 
3 . 10 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white; eyes crimson. An¬ 
tennae yellow-whitish. Fore wings blackish-grey irregularly mixed 
white, an 8-shaped white fascia filled blackish crossing wing at J-; 
a suffused ochreous-yellow apical patch occupying | of wing, 
crossed medially by a suffused white bar: cilia ochreous-yellow. 
Hindwings grey; cilia grey becoming whitish; from beneath base 
of wing a long pale ochreous expansible hairpencil directed along 
abdomen. Hind legs white, tibiae with a large light oehreous- 
yellowish tuft on basal half, and tuft of whitish hairs tipped 
blackish on apical half. 
Solomons, Tulagi, December, “ from Hibiscus flower ” (R . A. 
Lever) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.).* 
Pyroderces diplecta, n. sp. 
3 $ . 9 mm. Head, thorax pinkish, somewhat mixed blackish 
and white. Palpi rosy-whitish, a narrow blackish subapical band. 
Abdomen dark grey, with fine white segmental rings, three basal 
segments ochreous-yellow. Forewings rosy-pink; broad subcostal 
and dorsal streaks of blackish suffusion, costa with some irregular 
white markings from beyond middle to near apex; a fine white 
transverse line edged with some black scales at ^; a slender white 
median transverse fascia containing a central series of black scales; 
a few white scales transversely disposed at j: cilia pale greyish, 
round apex light pink with two or three blackish lines. Hind¬ 
wings grey; cilia pale yellowish, on costa light grey. 
Ceylon, Jaffna, Pallai, bred May from flowers of Palmyrah palm 
(Borassus) (Indian Forest Service) ; 8 ex. 
AMB0N0ST0LA, n. g. 
Head smooth, glossy; tongue developed. Antennae J, somewhat 
stout, filiform, scape elongate, rather swollen at apex, smooth. 
Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, slender, smooth, terminal 
joint shorter than second, pointed. Maxillary palpi absent. Hind 
tibiae smooth, with apical projection of bristly hairs. Forewings 
with tufts of scales; 2-6 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 
from middle. Hindwings j, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 5; 2-4 parallel, 
5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate. 
Ambonostola phosphoropis, n. sp. 
3 2 • 6-7 mm. Head, thorax bright metallic bronze, face with 
whitish reflection, body and legs shining white beneath. Palpi 
bronzy-whitish. Antennae dark bronzy-fuscous, apical fifth whitish. 
