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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
fasciculate-ciliated (nearly 2); scape with short posterior scaled pro¬ 
cess. Thorax fuscous, on each side of back a suffused blackish stripe 
obsolete posteriorly, in 3 less marked, some slight whitish mixture 
between these. Abdomen grejq sometimes reddish towards base, 
two subdorsal blackish stripes, less marked in <5 . Forewings 4 and 5 
closely approximated on basal J, 3 with slight postmedian costal 
thickening; brown or fuscous more or less irrorated blackish; 
basal area slightly tinged reddish or greenish; first line at 
rather oblique, black, obsolete towards costa ; two approximated 
blackish dots transversely placed on end of cell ; second line 
blackish, from a transverse costal mark at § oblique and rather 
excurved to middle, then nearly right-angled, indistinctly waved 
and rather incurved to dorsum at | ; area beyond this mostly 
suffused dark fuscous with a lighter space in middle ; a terminal 
series of small dark fuscous spots : cilia brownish, base spotted 
darker. Hindwings 4 and 5 stalked, 3 approximated to their stalk 
near base : pale greyish-ochreous, dorsum faintly reddish-tinged ; 
veins dark grey, apical area suffused grey, termen suffused dark 
grey ; cilia whitish-grey, a thick brownish-grey subbasal shade. 
India, U.P., Dehra Dun, bred September, October, from larvae 
defoliating Terminalia tomentosa (Combretacece) ; 3 ex., also 1 
from Ceylon, Matara, June (Dr. J. C. Hutson). Type Brit. Mus. 
* 
Balanotis rhodoptila, n. sp. 
3. 22 mm. Head dull olive-green, slightly marked dark grey, 
face white. Labial palpi white, basal joint black except tip, second 
joint long, tufted at apex posteriorly, a subbasal dot and upper half 
externally blackish, terminal joint | of second, pointed, tufted 
posteriorly, extreme tip white. Maxillary palpi concealed, perhaps 
penicillate. Antennal ciliations 1|. Thorax white, apex of tegulae 
olive-greenish. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, dorsally suffused 
olive-greenish, segments 1-5 with white dorsal spots, 3-8 with 
blackish subdorsal spots, anal tuft tinged pink. Forewings 4 and 5 
closely approximated on basal third; basal area dark olive-green 
somewhat mixed brown-reddish, edge rather irregular and oblique, 
marked blackish on lower half, extreme base white; median area 
white with a few olive-greenish specks, enclosing a dark olive-green 
irregular-trapezoidal costal blotch projecting on transverse vein, 
limited by a broad olive-greenish terminal fascia, second line rising 
from a small dark olive-green costal spot between blotch and 
fascia, and forming an excurved series of blackish neural dashes 
on median third of fascia and some blackish irroration on dorsal 
third of its anterior edge ; a double whitish spot on middle of termen, 
small semioval terminal spots dark grey above this and red-brownish 
beneath it, preceded by small faint whitish spots : cilia pale greyish, 
base tinged brownish and spotted dark brown. Hindwings 4 and 5 
short-stalked ; whitish, posterior half suffused light greyish-ochreous, 
terminal edge grey, vein 2 marked by a pale pinkish streak 
terminated by a small subterminal spot of blackish-grey suffusion 
