COSMOPTERYGID 2E. 
427 
Formosa, Taihoku, April {Prof. S. Issilri ) ; 1 ex. Approaches 
xuthogastra Meyr., in which however the subdorsal line near base 
is directly beneath the median, not obliquely. 
Labdia irimetalla, n. sp. 
<$. 8 mm. Head bright shining bluish-bronze. Palpi dark 
fuscous, internally whitish. Antennae dark grey, a white subapical 
band. Thorax iridescent coppery-bronze. . Forewings blackish ; a 
basal patch occupying T 0 f wing, costal half bright purple-coppery, 
dorsal half metallic bluish-green, just beyond this a short white 
transverse mark from dorsum ; a similar white mark from tornus, 
nearly preceded by an oblong metallic blue-green dorsal blotch, 
separated by coppery suffusion from a white transverse dot on costa 
above it; a suffused bright purple-coppery apical blotch : cilia dark 
grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Belgian Congo, Stanleyville, April, August (A. Collart ): 2 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Labdia tricliaeola, n. sp. 
c?. 9 mm. Head, antennae, thorax ochreous, face tinged 
whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish. Forewings narrowly elongate- 
lanceolate, apex produced, acute; ochreous, slightly speckled fuscous, 
especially posteriorly; plical and second discal stigmata very small, 
blackish ; three or four minute blackish dots on margins towards 
apex : cilia ochreous, towards tornus whitish. Hindwings grey ; 
cilia light grey, from tornus an erect expansible pencil of very long 
fine cilia. 
Java, bred from larva feeding in dry pod of Cassia siamea 
( Dr. L. G. E. Kalshoven) ; 1 ex. 
Pyroderces sesamivora, n. sp. 
S $ . 9-10 mm. Head, thorax white, partially tinged or 
suffused fleshcolour. Palpi white, second joint with two, terminal 
joint with three more or less developed fleshcoloured rings 
speckled blackish. Forewings greyish-pink; extreme base irregu¬ 
larly whitish ; a slender white transverse fascia at jjr, finely edged 
black irroration anteriorly, costal edge extended both ways by short 
white streaks ; a slender white transverse median fascia, enclosing 
two spots of black irroration ; a white striga very oblique inwards 
from costa at |, an upcurved white striga enclosing tornus, and a 
short white mark from costa before apex, each of these accompanied 
by a variably developed streak of black irroration : cilia pale greyish, 
faintly pinkish-tinged, round apex more pinkish, with blackish 
apical projection, a grey bar above this and two diverging below it. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 
