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Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sliglitly rounded, little 

 oblique ; bright brassy -yellow ; costa dotted with black ; posterior 

 half of wing dark purplish-leadcn-grcy, obscurely strigulated with 

 dark fuscous, dividing-line fiuely blackish, direct, irregular, costal 

 edge blackish with three or four minute white dots : cilia dark 

 leaden-fuscous. llindwings with 3 and 4 connate; blackish- 

 fuscous ; cilia dark grey, with blackish subbasal line, 



PuiLirriNES, Mindanao, Daron, in September {Moimseij) ; one 

 specimen. 



Laspeyresia pyrozona, n. sp. 

 c7. 12 mm. Head, palja, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, ai)ex obtuse, 

 termen bowed, rather obliijue ; dark violet-fuscous ; a broad deep 

 orange transverse band occupying median third of wing, strongly 

 angulatod above middle, its posterior portion strigulated with dark 

 fuscous on lower | and also longitudinally striated with black in 

 disc ; two oblique leaden-blue striga? from costa on this band, first 

 long, second short, and a third on its posterior margin, with black 

 costal dots between these ; four shorter leaden-blue strigaj from 

 costa posteriorly, marked with white on costa, fourth running to 

 termen beneath apex ; a dark leaden transverse mark in disc 

 beyond middle, and one towards dorsum beyond middle ; a black 

 dot at apex, and four along termen, surrounded with a faint fulvous 

 tinge : cilia blue-leaden. Hindwings with 6 and 7 little approxi- 

 mated towards base ; orange ; a broad dark fuscous marginal band 

 round apex, termen, and dorsum ; cilia grey, becoming darker 

 towards base. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in February {ParisJi) ; one specimen. 



\l Laspeyresia elevata, n. sp, 



2 . 11 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, face and 

 palpi whitish. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous ; 

 costa with six paii's of oblique Avhitish strigulie, fine and faint 

 anteriorly, and then two stronger single strigulse, whence arise 

 several oblique dark blue-leaden strigaj, two from before middle 

 connecting with apex of an erect fasciate ochreous-white blotch 

 from middle of dorsum reaching | across wing, its dorsal end 

 bisected by a fine dark fuscous strigula : cilia blue-leaden. Hind- 

 wings with 6 and 7 somewhat approximated towards base ; dark 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, basal third grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June (Parish) ; one specimen. 



s Hemimene penetralis, n. sp. 



(5 5 . 9-10 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous fiuely speckled 

 with ochreous- whitish. Palpi 3, dark grey, Avith ochreous-yellow 

 median spot, beyond this sufl'uscd with dark indigo-blue, internally 



