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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEEA. 
Bombay, Mahableshwar, bred May from larvae mining an elongate 
blotch under upper cuticle of leaf of JRandia dumetorum ( Rubiacece ); 
excrement gathered at one end of blotch, and larva feeds in a clear 
space ; larva turns red and wanders to pupate ; its habit in nature 
was not discovered, but in captivity it cut a small longitudinal flap 
with semicircular ends at edge of a paper slip, bent it over and 
spun up underneath; very subject to ichneumons; 2 ex, (Mrs. M. L. 
Maxwell). An example of the cocoon sent shows very neat 
workmanship. 
Epermenia trifilata, n. sp. 
d $. 10-11 mm. Head, palpi, thorax grey with whitish 
reflections, palpi externally blackish. Porewings widest near base, 
thence narrowed to obtuse-pointed apex ; rather dark ashy-grey, 
anteriorly with more or less strong whitish reflections; sometimes a 
small black dot in disc before middle; a small semioval blackish 
tornal spot edged by a fine white line, beyond this two short 
diverging white strigulae from termen, apex of second somewhat 
curved outwards and reaching to or near costa ; apex sometimes 
suffused blackish beyond this : cilia grey, on costa dark grey with a 
white spot cut by a black median line, at apex a blackish projecting 
hook, on termen with blaokish median and subapical lines more or 
less developed, on dorsum a large tuft of black-tipped apparently 
erectile scales beyond middle, and an undefined smaller group 
towards tornus. Hindwings grey becoming blackish posteriorly ; 
cilia grey. Posterior tibiae and tarsi with coarse rougfdy projecting 
grey and whitish bristles. 
Java, Seneng, bred October (Dr. L. G. E. Kalshoven) ; 7 ex. 
HELIODINIDiE. 
Stathmopoda nucivora, n. sp. 
d $ . 11-12 mm. Head bronzy-grey, face golden-whitish. 
Palpi shining whitish. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Porewings 
widest near base, thence narrowed to acute apex; orange-yellow ; 
narrow basal and median fasciae, and apical fourth of wing dark 
golden-bronzy-brown, median fascia in one example obsolete on 
dorsal half : cilia grey, tinged yellowish basally. Hindwings and 
cilia grey. 
Solomon Is., Guadalcanal’, bred October from larvae feeding 
inside very young coco-nuts (JR. J. A. W. Lever); 5 ex. (type 
Brit. Mus.). 
Heliodines loriculuta, n. sp. 
2 . 12 mm. Head, thorax greyish-bronze. Palpi grey. Pore- 
wings elongate-lanceolate; dark fuscous, tips of scales whitish, 
forming a fine regular transverse striation, apical third tinged 
orange; markings bluish-leaden-metallic; spots on costa at 1, 
middle, and |, dorsal spots rather beyond first and before third of 
these, a streak from costa towards apex parallel to termen, and one 
