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EXOTIC MICROBEPIDOPTERA. 
submetallic pale bronzy-greyish scales, some slight scattered dark 
fuscous mottling principally towards costa; basal third forming 
a somewhat darker patch edged by a straight slender direct dark 
streak from costa to fold, beneath this bent inwards and subbasal 
enclosing a metallic-green spot on base of dorsum and another 
beneath costa at patch followed on costa by a small spot of 
whitish suffusion, and on fold by a rather elongate metallic-green 
tuft; some metallic-green scales towards costa beyond middle; 
minute deep ferruginous tufts beneath middle of disc and on fold 
at | ; an angulated series of minute grey-whitish dots from | of 
costa to tornus: cilia dark grey. Hindwings 5 intermediate, 
parallel ; bronzy-greyish, paler anteriorly; cilia light gre}\ 
Costa Rica, Orosi, 5000 feet; 1 ex. Allied to trochilodes. 
CRAMBIDiE. 
Crambus lupatus, n. sp. 
B . 25-26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light fuscous mixed dark 
fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, 
termen bowed, little oblique; light fuscous or brownish-ochreous, 
sprinkled fuscous ; an indistinct dark fuscous discal dot on end of 
cell ; second line forming a hardly perceptible shade from of costa 
to 4 of dorsum, obtusely angulated in middle ; a conspicuous terminal 
series of seven strong triangular black dots, two uppermost elongate 
into short marks : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, tips more whitish. 
Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
Punjab, Lyallpur, bred August, September from pupae in stems 
of Typha latifolia ; 2 ex. (type Brit. Atus.). 
Crambus typhivorus, n. sp. 
<5 . 20-22 mm. Head, thorax whitish. Palpi wdiite, larger 
longitudinal half externally suffused brownish. Fore wings elongate- 
triangular, costa almost straight, termen straight or faintly sinuate 
beneath apex, then slightly convex, little oblique ; whity-brownish, 
slightly fuscous-speckled, extreme costal edge white; a small dark 
fuscous dot on end of cell; second line fine, indistinct, fuscous, 
from | of costa to | of dorsum, irregularly angulated above middle ; 
an indistinct fuscous terminal line or faint dots : cilia pale greyish- 
ochreous sprinkled fuscous, a fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings 
white, a dark grey marginal line round apex and upper half of 
termen ; cilia white. 
Punjab, Lyallpur, bred September, October from pupae in stems 
of TypJia latifolia ; 4 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Hoploscopa astrapias Heyr. 
An example of this species from Yunidawa, Fiji (LT. Phillips ) was 
recently submitted to me ; the species has not been seen by me 
since its description 46 vears ago I find that it has a loose but 
