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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Stathmopoda placida Meyr. 
Java, bred June from larvae feeding on crust of Coccid Tachardia 
laccci (Dr. L. G. E. Kcdshoven). 
HEMICALYPTKIS, n. g. 
Head smooth, forehead forming a strong rounded fillet, face very 
retreating ; tongue absent. Antennae ( $ ) filiform. Labial palpi 
rather short, porrect, with appressed scales, terminal joint somewhat 
shorter than second, obtuse-pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. 
Hind tibiae loosely scaled above, tarsi with whorls of short bristly 
scales at apex of joints. Pore wings cell pointed, 2 from 4-, 4 absent, 
5 from near angle, 6 absent (?), 8 and 9 out of 7, 10 from near 
angle, 11 from 4, long. Hindwings under 1, ovate-lanceolate, 
cilia 2 ; 2-7 separate. 
Allied to Heliodines. 
Hemicalyptris isemera, n. sp. 
2 .12 mm. Head, thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, face pale shining 
bronzy. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate ; anterior half deep orange, 
base narrowly dark bronzy-fuscous, posterior half deep purple, apex 
suffused coppery: cilia trronzy-grey. Hindwings dark bronzy- 
fuscous ; cilia violet-grey. 
Belgian Congo, Eala, October (22. Mciyne ) ; 1 ex. (Belg. Cong. 
Mus.). 
XYLORYCTIDiE. 
Scieropepla nephelocentra, n. sp. 
<5 . 18-22 mm. Head grey mixed white. Palpi white sprinkled 
grey. Thorax white suffusedly mixed grey. Porewings elongate, 
costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; grey 
suffusedly irrorated white; discal stigmata dark grey, second 
transversely double, a suffused white streak connecting these, some 
additional dark grey scales scattered above and below this: cilia 
white mixed grey. Hindwings light grey, tinged whitish towards 
base ; cilia whitish, a grey suffused subbasal shade. 
Madagascar ; 2 ex. (type Yienna Mus.). The second Madagascar 
species of the genus, only known otherwise from Australia and 
Hew Guinea; smaller and broader-winged than byblinopa, with 
distinct stigmata. 
CATANOMISTIS, n. g. 
Head with long rough hairs on crown, face smooth ; ocelli 
posterior; tongue developed. Antennae | (?). (Labial palpi 
missing, assumed as in Odites .) Hind tibiae clothed long rough 
hairs above. Porewings 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 4 approximated, 
