14 EXOTIC MIOROLKPinOPTKRA. 



somewhat clarker-sprinkled in disc : cilia greyish. Hiiidwings f, 4 

 and 5 separate ; grey ; cilia grey. 



PiiKU, Huancayo, 10,GoO feet, in July (Parish); one specimen. 



J 



Scythris mixaula, n. sp. 



J . 19-22 mm. Head and thorax ochi'eoas-whitish or Avhitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi whitish, more or less mixed with pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Antennal ciliations 2. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings lanceolate ; light brownish-ochreoua, veins more or less 

 suff'usedly lined with white, sometimes so confusedly as to obscure 

 most of the groundcolour ; an oblique whitish bar joining vein 1 b 

 and lower margin of cell before middle of wing: cilia light greyish- 

 ochreous suffused with whitish, with a greyish-ochreous apical 

 bar. Hindwings with 4 and 5 separate ; pale grey ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous. 



CoLoiuDO, 5000 feet ; three specimens. 



V Scythris oxyplecta, n. sp. 



c? $ . 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish speckled with 

 blackish, terminal joint of palpi rather short, thickened with loose 

 scales. Abdomen, whitish-ochreous. Forewings narrow-lanceolate; 

 pale grey speckled with black, and more or less irregularly mixed 

 or suffused with white ; an irregular oblique white streak pre- 

 ceded and followed by denser dark speckling from beneath costa 

 at 5 reaching | across wing, its upper extremity extended as a 

 narrow wedgeshaped streak beneath costa to near base ; second 

 discal stigma obscurely indicated : cilia light greyish-ochreous, at 

 base sprinkled with blackish, on costa suffused with whitish. 

 Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked ; grey ; cilia light greyish- 

 ochreous. 



Florida ; two specimens. 



Scythris pelinaula, n. sp. 



5 . 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light ochreous. Abdomen 

 fuscous, towards apex yellow-ochreous, ventral surface Avhitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; pale ochreous, tinged 

 Avith grey on a broad supramedian undefined streak from base to 

 apex; submediau fold sufi'used with whitish-ochreous: cilia whitish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked; grey; cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous. 



ISenegambia, Kaolakh ; two specimens. Allied to roseola and 

 subehurnea. 



Scythris parachalca, n. sp. 



J 2 . 17-19 mm. Head, palpi, antennje, and thorax bronze. 

 Abdomen bronzy-grey, beneath in c? suffused with whitish, pos- 

 teriorly in 5 with three pra^anal segments and part of the fourth 

 lifj-ht ochreous-yellowish, anal tuft in c? compressed, simple. Fore- 

 v,in"'S elongate-lanceolate; uniform slightly greenish bronze, towards 



