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to form with these a longitudinal streak from base to apex ; termen 
slightly marked fuscous between veins: cilia ochreous-whitish, 
outer half slightly tinged brownish, at apex a fuscous spot. Hind- 
wings and cilia pale whitish-grey-ochreous. 
British New Guinea, Hydrographer Mts., 2500 feet, January, 
February ( Eichhorn ); 2 ex. (type Prof. Forbes’ Coll.). 
Idiopteryx neuroplaca, n. sp. 
$ . 18 mm. Head ochreous-yellow, back of crown blackish. 
Palpi, antennae ochreous-yellow. Thorax ochreous-yellow, a curved 
blackish antemedian bar. Forewings elongate, nearly parallel¬ 
sided, termen rather oblique; ochreous-yellow ; markings blackish ; 
an irregular ill-defined more or less interrupted narrow subbasal 
fascia ; a very broad transverse band from before middle to § defined 
by more or less expressed blackish interneural streaks, leaving 
strong ochreous-yellow lines on veins; a subterminal streak of 
suffusion towards tornus only: cilia ochreous-yellow, outer half 
paler. Hindwings blackish-grey, a whitish-ochreous anteapieal 
mark; cilia grey, round apex and upper part of termen ochreous- 
yellow. 
N. Rhodesia, Congo-Zambesi watershed (Dr. H. S. Evans) ; 1 ex. 
(Brit. Mus.). Allied to obliquella. 
Brachmia conturbata, n. sp. 
2 . 10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, crown mixed fuscous 
towards middle. Palpi ochreous-whitish, irregularly sprinkled dark 
fuscous. Thorax ochreous-whitish, three dark fuscous lines. Fore¬ 
wings rather narrow, slightly dilated, termen oblique; whitish- 
ochreous, veins marked dark fuscous lines but partially confused by 
some irregular dark brown suffusion between veins, especially in 
cell and a narrow irregular terminal fascia: cilia dark ashy-grey, 
base obscurely dotted whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Sierra Leone, Njala, January (E. Hargreaves ); 1 ex. Allied to 
Hscinata. 
Oecia oecophila Staud. 
Bred February from oranges, British Guiana (F. A. Squire ), 
Symmoca anthracosema, n. sp. 
S . 14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint blackish 
except apex, terminal joint with incomplete black supramedian ring 
and one or two specks below middle. Thorax whitish, slightly 
tinged grey and sprinkled blackish. Forewings elongate, somewhat 
dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 
rounded ; grey-whitish, scattered black specks; a triangular black 
spot on base of costa; a short black mark on dorsum near base ; 
stigmata large, black, plical obliquely beyond first discal; an 
irregular blackish-grey spot on costa beyond second discal, reaching 
^ across wing, and a transverse blackish bar followed by a suffused 
grey spot from dorsum beneath second discal almost reaching it; 
