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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Pyralis compsobathra, n. sp. 
J . 14 mm. Head, thorax light grey mixed darker, face tinged 
whitish. Palpi grey or dark grey, apex of joints sometimes white. 
Antennae flat-subdentate, ciliations nearly 2. Forewings elongate- 
triangular, costa gently arched, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 
light grey sprinkled dark grey, sometimes suffusedly mixed white ; 
a dark grey basal patch occupying nearly ^ of wing, edge obtusely 
angulated in middle, limited by indistinct white first line, thickened 
and distinct on costa; costal edge between first and second lines 
blackish-grey, with only 3 or 4 small white dots ; a small dark grey 
discal spot, short streaks of whitish suffusion before and beyond it; 
second line rising from a triangular white spot on costa at f, fine, 
white, gently excurved between costal spot and fold, slightly and 
irregularly waved ; two small dark grey spots just before termen 
beneath apex, and some small marks before rest of termen: cilia 
pale grey, an interrupted dark grey subbasal line. Hindwings 
light grey sprinkled dark grey; lines waved, whitish, first straight, 
second excurved, preceded by dark grey suffusion ; some irregular 
dark grey suffusion along termen ; cilia as in forewings. 
Fiji, Lautoka, August, September (H. Phillips)', 2 ex. Inter¬ 
mediate in character between pictalis and manihotalis. 
MACRO PI RATIDzE. 
MACROPIRATIS, n. g. 
Face oblique or vertical, scales projecting roughly at lower edge ; 
ocelli posterior, distinct; tongue absent. Antennae under 3 
flat-dentate, ciliated, scape short. Labial palpi straight, porrected, 
with appressed scales, differing specifically. Maxillary palpi 
imperceptible. Posterior tibiae very long, slender, smooth, outer 
middle spurs | of inner. Abdomen very long and slender. Fore¬ 
wings 2 from |-|, 3 from near angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 6 from near 
9, 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 apparently absent, 11 nearly approximated 
to 9. Hindwings 1|, cubital pecten strong and well-developed; 
2 from |, 3 and 4 short-stalked from angle, 5 obsolete, apparently 
represented by imperfect median fold, 6 and 7 stalked from angle, 
8 apparently absent, absorbed throughout in 7. 
Type Jicilieutica Meyr. This singular genus presents an excep¬ 
tional combination of characters which excludes it from all established 
families of Pyralidina , and I am therefore obliged to form a new 
family for it, of which the characters are at present those of the 
genus. The insects have the aspect of an entire-winged Pterophorid, 
but do not possesss the cubital series of spinules on the lower surface 
of hindwings invariably characteristic of that family, and are other¬ 
wise anomalous; the apparent absence of maxillary palpi is however 
a point of resemblance, and there is probably real relationship. 
