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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
rough scales beneath, terminal joint as long as second, cylindrical, 
slender, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi short, porrected, filiform. 
Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Porewings 1 b furcate, 
2 from j-, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 7 to apex, 11 from 3 . 
Hindwings 1 , elongate-ovate, cilia | ; 2 from £, 3 from angle, 3-7 
parallel. 
Perilicmetis diplaca, n. sp. 
c? . 19-20 mm. Head brown. Palpi grey, tip whitish. Thorax 
ochreous-whitish, anterior third purplish-fuscous. Porewings 
elongate, costa gently arched towards base and apex, otherwise 
straight, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; ochreous- 
grey-whitish or whitish-grey-ochreous, thinly sprinkled dark fuscous 
except towards dorsum, scattered dark fuscous dots or small spots 
along costa ; a subquadrate dark fuscous blotch on dorsum about | 
reaching half across wing, and another equally large in disc towards 
apex, these touching or connected in disc, some fuscous strigulation 
round them; a marginal series of dark fuscous marks round 
posterior part of costa and termen: cilia ochreous-whitish, a dark 
fuscous subbasal line, and traces of fuscous bars. Hindwings 
thinly scaled, light grey, veins suffused grey ; cilia pale grey, two 
grey shades. 
Brazil, Jaragua and Neu-Bremen, Pebruary, June, August, 
September ( Hoffmann ); 4 ex. (type Vienna Mus.). 
Clepticodes hexaleuca, n. sp. 
c 3 . 6 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi dark grey, tip 
whitish. Thorax ochreous-whitish. Porewings lanceolate ; 5 con¬ 
nate with 7 ; greyish or fuscous irrorated dark fuscous ; a white 
dorsal streak from base to tornus, almost divided by projections of 
groundcolour from disc into three blotches ; three white spots on 
posterior third of costa, third largest, prseapical, almost touching 
termen : cilia grey-whitish, slightly speckled dark fuscous. Hind¬ 
wings and cilia grey-whitish. 
Virgin Is., St. Thomas, March, April ( Gudmann) ; 2 ex. (type 
Vienna Mus.). 
POLYCOMPSISTIS, n. g. 
Head very densely rough-haired ; ocelli posterior ; tongue 
developed. Antennae £ (?), <$ filiform, simple, scape short. Labial 
palpi moderate, porrected, second joint broadly expanded with 
dense rough scales, brush-like, terminal concealed. Maxillary 
palpi short, porrected, loosely rough-scaled. Hind tibiae clothed 
very long fine spreading hairs above and beneath. Porewings 
with tufts of scales; 2 from near angle, 7 to costa, 11 from 
towards base. Hindwings 1, ovate-lanceolate, cilia 1| ; 2-4 
parallel, 5-7 rather approximated towards base. 
Allied to Tinea . 
