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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
with downwards-directed fringe of hairscales on basal third ; pale 
ochreous; a black dot within hrst lobe beyond its middle, and a 
min ate one on costa towards apex, some grey suffusion along lower 
edge of first lobe ; a black dot, sometimes elongate, at base of cleft; 
four slightly projecting black dots on dorsal edge of second lobe : 
cilia grey-whitish. Hind wings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Belgian Coxgo, K.E. Kivu, La Mutura, March (C. Seydel ); 2 ex. 
(type Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Exelastis ebalensis Beb. 
Having now seen the type of this species (described as an 
Alucita ), kindly sent me from the Vienna Museum for study, I find 
it to be identical with phlyctaenias Meyr., which it supersedes. 
Agdistis insidiatrix, n. sp. 
<y . 17 mm. (Head missing.) Thorax ashy-whitish, a few dark 
fuscous scales. Forewings grey (without iridescence) ; costal and 
dorsal areas ashy-whitish thinly sprinkled fuscous and dark fuscous ; 
moderate dark fuscous dots at base of triangular grey area, and § of 
its lower margin, and one more elongate and less defined midway 
between these ; three dark fuscous dots (third minute) on costa 
posteriorly : cilia whitish, on termen a grey median line terminating 
in a dark fuscous apical dot on outer half. Hindwings grey (hardly 
lighter than forewings), veins rather darker ; a triangular spot of 
dark fuscous irroration from termen towards tornus ; cilia grey- 
whitish, a very faint darker median line, on dorsum some grey 
sprinkling towards base. Hindwings beneath with grey scale-flap 
from basal third of costa, dorsal area narrowly irrorated blackish. 
Sokotra, Has Shoab, January {Prof. 0. Simony); 1 ex. (Vienna 
Mus.). This cannot be minima Wals. 
COSMOPTERYGIDiE. 
Cosmopteryx brachyclina, n. sp. 
<4 . 10 mm. Head, thorax dark fuscous-bronze. Palpi white 
lined blackish. Antennae 4 apical joints white, then 5 black, 1 white, 
1 black, 2 white. Abdomen greyish-fulvous, apex silvery, anal 
tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings blackish-grey ; a very fine short 
blue-whitish line from costa towards base, and very short median 
and subdorsal lines placed in an oblique series beneath its posterior 
part; a broad orange postmedian band, much narrower posteriorly 
on dorsal half, limited anteriorly by a narrow direct golden- 
metallic fascia not quite reaching costa, and posteriorly by a 
golden-metallic dorsal spot, and a white costal spot beyond it 
becoming golden-metallic in disc: cilia dark grey, a white bar at 
apex. Hindwings dark grej T ; cilia grey. 
