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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
grey, on dorsum with scattered black scales. Hindwings grey ; 
cilia light pinkish-grey, on dorsum of third lobe with some scattered 
black specks or indications of a line and just beyond middle a short 
bar-shaped patch of black-tipped scales. 
Java, teak-forest, July ( Dr . L. O. E. Kalshoven); 1 ex. 
Platyptilia teleacma, n. sp. 
<3 9 • 11 mrtl * Head, palpi, thorax brownish sprinkled dark 
fuscous. Fore wings cleft to |, lobes moderately broad, first with 
apex pointed, termen rather oblique, concave, second with termen 
bisinuate, oblique; brown irrorated dark fuscous; costa and dorsum 
irrorated blackish and minutely dotted white; a triangular blackish- 
fuscous blotch from costa just before cleft, apex reaching lower 
angle of its base, followed on costa by a white mark ; a moderate 
blackish-fuscous fascia crossing middle of both lobes, finely edged 
white on both sides : cilia grey, on termen tinged white basally and 
with a black subbasal interrupted line. Hindwings dark grey, 
third lobe short; cilia grey, on third lobe a series of small scattered 
black basal scales on dorsum and a broad large triangular blackish 
scaletooth beneath apex, exactly reaching it. 
Java, teak-forest, bred June (Dr. L . G. E. Kalshoven) ; 3 ex. 
Eesembling picta, yet much smaller, and peculiar by the apical 
scaletooth of hindwings. 
Platyptilia gravior, n. sp. 
$ . 28 mm. Head grey, with moderate frontal tuft. Palpi 
under 2, crimson-grey, tip whitish. Thorax grey, tegulae suffused 
whitish towards apex. Eorewings cleft to |, lobes broad, termen 
somewhat oblique, of first lobe somewhat sinuate, of second some¬ 
what rounded ; grey sprinkled whitish; costal edge dark gre)% 
towards middle four small white dots beneath it; a triangular 
blackish-grey blotch on costa before cleft, its apex almost touching 
a blackish-grey dot near before lower angle of cleft, beyond this a 
white mark on costal edge and a spot of ochreous-white suffusion 
beneath it; some darker grey suffusion towards costa posteriorly : 
cilia whitish, on costa dark grejq on termen base greyish within 
a dark grey median line, on dorsum a blackish-grey scaletooth 
before costal blotch. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey, third 
lobe on middle of dorsum with an obtuse wedge-shaped blackish- 
tipped scale-projection, its basal angle rather produced outwards, 
some scattered blackish-tipped scales between this and base. 
Costa Eica, Irazu, 8000 feet, May (Reimoser); 1 ex. (Vienna 
Mus.). Allied to carcluidactylus , which has also been recorded as 
far south as Costa Eica, but distinct by greyer colouring and less 
prominent apex of forewings. 
