66 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTBEA. 



sometimes almost confluent with the costal spots preceding them ; 

 streaks along hoth margins from rather beyond tliese to apex, con- 

 fluent posteriorly : cilia glossy grey. Hindwings dark grey, lighter 

 anteriorly ; cilia grey. 



Peru, Lima (500 feet), Chosica (2800 feet), and Matucaua 

 (7780 feet), in July and August (Parish) ; five specimens. 



/ EPERMENIAD^. 



y ACANTHEDRA, n. g. 



Head rounded, with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior ; tongue 

 developed. Antennne |, in cT pubescent-ciliated, basal joint mode- 

 rate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, curved, 

 ascending, second joint thickened with loose scales, rough towards 

 apex beneath, terminal joint much shorter than second, thickened 

 with scales roughly projecting beyond apex, appearing obtuse. 

 Maxillary palpi short, filiform, porrected. Posterior tibise with 

 numerous scattered spiny bristles, basal joint of tarsi with some 

 similar shorter bristles. Forewings with 1 b short-furcate, 2 from 

 near angle, 3 and 4 approximated at base, 7 absent, 8 to costa, 

 11 from before middle. Hindwings |, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 2| ; 

 veins all separate, 5-7 somewhat approximated towards base. 



Acanthedra stolidota, n. sp. 



c? . 22 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face and sides of crown 

 partially suffused with fuscous. Palpi oohreous-whitish sufFusedly 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae dark grey. Thorax 

 whitish-ochreous partially tinged with brownish, shoulders with a 

 blotch of dark fuscous suffusion. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; whitish-ochreous, between 

 the veins more ochreous and irrorated with light grey and a few 

 blackish scales ; stigmata small, bhxck, plical elongate, very obliquely 

 beyond first discal : cilia whitish-ochreous, marked at base with 

 small groups of fuscous and blackish scales, beneath apex with a 

 patch of dark fuscous suffusion. Hindwings light grey; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 



CoLOKADO, at 5000 feet, in August; one specimen, 



Epermenia macescens, n. sp. 



(S . 10 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish. 

 Forewings very narrow, long-pointed, acute ; 7 and 8 stalked ; pale 

 brownish-grey, irregularly irrorated with dark grey ; discal stig- 

 mata small, black, widely remote, some longitudinal ochreous- 

 brownish suffusion between these : cilia pale greyish, round apex 

 irrorated with blackish, with a rather broad projection of black- 

 sprinkled scales before middle of dorsum, and some black specks in 



