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EXOTIC HICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
thinly scaled, pale grey, veins and terminal edge dark grey ; cilia 
grey-whitish, a grey subbasal shade. 
Fiji, Lautoka, August {H. Phillips ) ; 2 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Two <S examples of Salebria from Labasa, bred December from 
pods of Dalbergici rnonosperma ( W. Greenwood ) may not improbably 
be the other sex of this species, but are in such unsatisfactory 
condition that they cannot be identified with it. 
Nephopteryx porphyrocapna, n. sp. 
6 $ . 20-21 mm. Head dark crimson, face grey, with projecting 
scales. Palpi g rather dark fuscous, apex suffused pale ochreous, 
2 grey speckled whitish. Thorax dark grey, 2 tinged crimson 
posteriorly. Forewings elongate, dilated, costa posteriorly gently 
arched, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; purplish-ashy-fuscous, 
pale-speckled, 2 costal edge tinged crimson ; no markings : cilia 
concolorous, two faint darker shades. Hindwings g dark grey, 
a basal patch of blackish suffusion, 2 light grey ; cilia light grey, 
a darker subbasal line. 
Fiji, Lautoka, November, December; 2 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
PHALOBATHRA, n. g. 
Tongue developed. Antennae g slightly sinuate at base, minutely 
ciliated, scape with strong thick scale-projection above* Labial 
palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, second joint with appressed 
scales, terminal joint as long as second, thickened with rather loose 
scales, obtuse. Maxillary palpi moderate, apex in g with long- 
expanded scales. Middle and posterior tibiae g with expansible 
pencils of hairs. Forewings 2 and 3 from near angle, 4 and 5 
closely approximated towards base, 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings 
cell 2 from near angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 3 closely approximated 
to stalk towards base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 
to near middle. 
Phalobathra escigera, n. sp. 
g 5 • 14-17 mm. Head crimson-whitish mixed grey. Palpi 
blackish-grey somewhat mixed white. Thorax crimson-grey mixed 
blackish, apex of tegulae pale. Middle-legs g blackish-grey, 
beneath with dense rosy-whitish scales and expansible hairpencil 
from base, posterior tibiae g with expansible rosy-whitish hair- 
pencil from base above. Fore wings elongate, gradually dilated, 
costa slightly arched, termen rather obliquely rounded; dark 
purple-grey somewhat sprinkled blackish and whitish ; first line, 
about thick, rather oblique, rosy-grey becoming whitish towards 
costa, lower half occupied by a large excrescence of raised scales; 
second line obscure, slender, irregular, slightly excurved in disc, 
indented near costa and dorsum, faintly whitish, only becoming 
white and distinct near dorsum : cilia purplish-grey. Hindwings 
light grey : terminal edge dark grey; cilia light grey, a dark grey 
subbasal line. 
Fiji, Lautoka, February, March, October (H. Phillips) ; 5 ex. 
(type Brit. Mus.). 
