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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Telphusa hemicycla, n. sp. 
5 . 14 mm. Head, thorax grey-whitish sprinkled dark grey. 
Palpi blackish-grey, tip of second joint whitish. Forewings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 
purplish-grey irrorated dark grey, dorsal ferruginous-brownish; 
a dark grey subdorsal tuft at |, above this a blackish dot; a suffused 
dark fuscous oblique streak from costa at | to fold, preceded on 
costa by whitish spot and at lower end by whitish tuft beneath 
fold ; a semiannular black line forming an erect arch in disc slightly 
beyond middle, a white dot just above this, posterior edge of arch 
extended by a short fuscous line towards tornus ; a blackish 
longitudinal streak in disc posteriorly touching arch but not 
reaching termen: cilia whitish-ochreous with two lines of blackish 
speckling, above apex grey. Hindwings grey, lighter anteriorly ; 
cilia whitish-grey-ochreous. 
Paraguay, S. Bernardino, February ; 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
Allied to ochrotoma and argilojpis ; easily recognised by the curious 
semicircular black discal arch. 
Telphusa xyloptera, n. sp. 
5 . 16 mm. Head glossy pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi 
brownish-whitish, second joint with three, terminal joint with two 
bands of blackish irroration* Thorax pale brownish-ochreous, spotted 
dark fuscous suffusion. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, 
apex acute, termen very obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous irregularly 
suffused reddish-brown and sprinkled dark grey ; markings suffused 
dark fuscous, sprinkled blackish ; a small spot on base of costa, and 
very oblique pointed fasciate streak from costa near base to fold; 
an ill-defined subtriangular costal patch extending from about | to 
| and reaching half across wing ; an irregular streak from dorsum 
before tornus along termen to apex, widest at apex : cilia dark grey. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Uganda, Kampala, bred March from larva feeding in pod of 
“ kanyurnusenke ” ( H . Hargreaves ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Gelechia leptospora, n. sp. 
cJ. 11 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, palpi 
slightly whitish-sprinkled. Forwings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 
smooth dark bronzy-fuscous ; groups of three or four grey-whitish 
scales indicating stigmata, plical obliquety before first discal, a few 
similar scales scattered on fold ; a slightly oblique transverse mark 
of grey-whitish scales from costa about J, and two or three scales 
near tornus opposite: cilia dark grey. Hindwings apex pointed, 
termen sinuate ; dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Costa Bica, Orosi, 5000 feet; 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
Gelechia diacmota, n. sp. 
<d . 15 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi white, base blaokish, 
a subapical ring of second joint and subbasal and subapical bands 
