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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
reddish-grey mixed dark fuscous. Forewiugs elongate, costa gently 
arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 2 remote 
from angle ; rather dark fuscous, streaked black on veins; two 
very small white dots longitudinally placed representing first discal 
stigma, a larger white dot representing second : cilia brownish. 
Hindwings and cilia light grey; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 connate with 
stalk. 
Morocco, Taddert, June [Commandant D. Lucas ); 1 ex. 
GELECHIADiE. 
Epithectis sphecophila, n. sp. 
<3 $ . 10 mm. Head, thorax whitish, slightly speckled grey. 
Palpi white, second joint suffused dark fuscous except apex, terminal 
joint with two dark fuscous rings. Fore wings grey-whitish ; 
a dark fuscous basal patch, extending on costa to J, edge inwards- 
oblique from costa, mixed light brownish towards base ; a small 
elongate dark fuscous spot, on costa about ^ ; a dark fuscous post¬ 
median costal blotch, broadest on costa, rounded beneath and 
reaching half across wing, second discal stigma forming a black 
dot beneath this ; some fuscous irroration or suffusion on apical 
area, and some irregular dark fuscous praemarginal or marginal 
dots round it: cilia fuscous, becoming paler and whitish-tinged on 
tornal area. Hindwings slaty-grey ; cilia pale brownish-grey. 
Trinidad, bred December from bottom of cells of the Hymeno- 
pteron Polistes canadensis (Dr. V. Fitzgerald) ; 3 ex. (type Brit. 
Mus.). The pupae were enclosed in stout cocoons covered with 
refuse, accumulated together; probably the larvae feed on the 
substance of the nest. Two other species of Epithectis are known 
to feed on dry vegetable substances. 
Stomopteryx diplodoxa, n. sp. 
S . 13 mm. Head yellow. Palpi yellowish-white, base blackish. 
Thorax blackish, posterior extremity and apical edge of tegulae 
yellow-whitish. Forewings 6 separate ; blackish ; a sinuous 
irregular white streak from costa towards base very obliquely to 
near dorsum beyond middle ; a narrow irregular-edged straight 
transverse white fascia at J ; cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia 
grey. 
Tunisia, Nefta, May (Commandant D. Lucas) : 1 ex. 
SPERMANTHRAX, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior; tongue long. 
Antennae f (?), <3 moderately and evenly ciliated, scape rather 
short, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, second joint very 
long, porrect, much thickened with dense appressed scales beneath 
shortly projecting at apex, above with long rough projecting scales 
