NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM BRITISH GUIANA 89 



Dichomeris varronia, new species. 



Second joint of labial palpi with medium, blunt, compressed tuft, black- 

 ish, dusted with gray near the tip on the outer side, dusky brown on the 

 inner side ; terminal joint reddish with black apex. Face and head 

 blackish fuscous, with brown side tufts. Thorax blackish with brown 

 patagia. Forewing dark blackish fuscous with a light ochreous brown 

 costal area from base to apical fifth, broadest near bzise, where it occupies 

 fully half of the width of the wing and attenuated toward apex. This 

 light area is edged on its basal half by a deep blackish brown area, which 

 is gradually suffused into the ground color dorsally, but which toward the 

 costal light area is sharply drawn as an undulating edge ; around the 

 apical and terminal edge is a submarginal series of small ochreous dashes. 

 Cilia blackish fuscous. Hindwing dark brownish fuscous, lighter toward 

 the base. Abdomen dark fuscous above, underside ochreous brown. 

 Legs ochreous brown with dusky tarsi. The males have a curious long 

 tuft of light ochreous hair on each side of the thorax just below the 

 patagia. Alar expanse : 1 9 mm. 



Habitat: Kitty, British Guiana. 



Food plant : Varronia curissavaca, black sage. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. type No. 16012. 



This species occurs also in Panama, where the writer has collected it 

 at Corozal and La Chorrera. 



Nearest to D. arotrosema Wlsm., described from Vera Cruz, Mexico ; 

 with nearly the same pattern but smaller and lighter and more brownish 

 in color. 



Cryptolechia flava Zeller. 



Two specimens of this species were bred by Mr. Moore at Mocha, 

 British Guiana, from coffee. 



Blastobasis lecaniella, new species. 



Labial palpi white, mottled with dcirk brown, especially on terminal 

 joint. Antennae ochreous white with heavy white pecten on basal joint. 

 Face white. Head and thorax white, mottled with light ochreous brown. 

 Forewing white, irregulcirly mottled with ashy brown, especially toward 

 the tip ; an indistinct brown discal spot on the middle of the cell and two 

 small brown dots at the end of the cell. Cilia dusky. Hindwings light 



