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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Hindwings grey; a small suffused hyaline spot beneath cell at base ; 
cilia pale grey. 
Sierra Leone, ISTjala, June ( E . Hargreaves) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Comocritis heliconia, n. sp. 
cT $ • 14-21 mm. Head, palpi white. Antennae S shortly 
unipectinated, pectinations moderately ciliated. Thorax white, a 
light grey blotch on posterior half not reaching margin. Forewings 
oblong, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 
rounded ; 9 and 10 stalked ; white ; a large trapezoidal brownish- 
ochreous patch occupying disc from | to resting on dorsum and 
extending | across wing, upper and lower margins broadly suffused 
grey, anterior margin with a quadrate grey discal lobe reaching to 
near base, a spot of grey suffusion above this towards costa, 
posterior margin biconvex ; some irregular grey marking on or 
beneath costa about |, a pale ashy-grey fasciate streak irrorated 
dark grey from beneath costa at to lower part of termen, and 
a pale greyish transverse shade between this and upper part of 
discal patch, costal edge more or less ochreous on posterior third : 
cilia white, on apical area with a yellowish subbasal line and two 
more or less indicated greyish lines towards tips. Hindwings grey, 
becoming paler or whitishstinged anteriorly ; cilia whitish, a grey 
subbasal line. 
Java, bred December from larvae feeding on bark of a jungle tree 
{Dr. L. G. E. Kalshoven) ; 4 ex. Very similar in markings to 
olympia, but much smaller, and structure of B antennae different. 
SCAEOSOPHIDiE. 
Scaeosopha chionoscia, n. sp. 
<J. 14-17 mm. Head whitish, crown partly suffused light 
violet-grey. Palpi violet-grey, tips of joints white. Thorax 
whitish, streaked alternately light violet-grev and pale yellowish. 
Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
very obliquely rounded ; lilac-whitish, markings dark violet-grey ; 
a slender costal streak from base to about J ; short diverging streaks 
from base above and below middle, and near dorsum ; four oblique 
transverse angulated series of irregular longitudinal streaks or 
marks, second interrupted by a large oval blackish-tinged spot 
ringed white, representing first discal stigma, plical and second 
discal stigmata represented by similar but less conspicuous spots, 
plical equidistant from discal, a praeapical spot in fourth series: 
cilia grey-whitish, blackish-grey subbasal and grey subapical lines. 
Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia light grey. 
Java, Seneng, bred July, October from larvae feeding in young 
fruits of Nauclea orientals {Kvhiacece) {Dr. L. G. E. Kalslioven ); 
2 ex. 
