82 EXOTIC MTCROLBPIDOPTEEA. 



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Choropleca zygoterma, n. sp. 



cJ 5 . 8 mm. Head white mixed with grey. Pal])i white, base 

 of joints bhickish. Antenna! white ringed with dark fascous, with 

 four dark fuscous bands on ajncal half and one above base. Thorax 

 grey mixed with white. Abdomen groy. Eorewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; 

 ochreous-whitish irregularly sprinkled with dark grey ; a blackish 

 streak along costa throughout, cut by a W'hitish mark near base, a 

 pair of oblique white strigulae at 1, and larger pairs before middle 

 and at |, between second and third pairs enlarged by blackish-grey 

 suffusion into an oblique irregiilar blotch reaching half across wing, 

 apical segment of black streak enclosing a white dot above apex; 

 some dark fuscous marking on tornus : cilia ochreous-whitish 

 sprinkled with grey, on costa with a blackish basal shade, beneath 

 apex with a white dot. Hind wings and cilia grey. 



Colombia, La Crumbre, 0600 feet, in May ; Ecuador, Huigra, 

 4500 feet, in June (ParisJi); eight specimens. 



y Choropleca rhombifera, n. sp. 



c? . 9 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, face white. Palpi white, 

 second joint dark fuscous except apical edge. Antennae grey with 

 a white line. Abdomen dark grey. Forewdngs elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat 

 oblique; pole fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous; fine very 

 oblicjue white strigte from costa at ^ and middle, costa before and 

 between these suffused with d irk fuscous, second limiting anteriorly 

 a rhomboidal dark fuscous costal blotch extending to a short fine 

 white striga along costa from |, its lower anterior angle confiuent 

 with an elongal e suffused dark fuscous spot in disc ; beyond this an 

 ochreous-white roundish apical blotch extending to middle of 

 termen, including a wedgeshaped longitudinal mark of dark fuscous 

 suffusion witli its base resting on apex and including a white apical 

 dot, and a fine dash of dark fuscous irroration above this ; a fine 

 dark fuscous marginal line round apex and termen : cilia oclireous- 

 whitish, with a fuscous median shade (imperfect). Hindwings and 

 cilia dark grey. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in November (Parish) ; one specimen. 



Callicerastis photophanes, n. sp. 

 J. 10 mm. Head and thorax dark puiplish-fuscous, face 

 partially suffused with whitish. Palpi ochreous-wbitisli, second 

 joint mixed with dark grey, terminal joint dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous. Eorewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; daik bronzy- 

 fuscous, dorsal area sprinkled with light yellowish hairscales ; 

 a fine pale violet-metallic oblique striga from middle of costa, 

 white on costal edge, reaching nearly half across wing; a 

 similar striga from middle of dorsum, reaching nearly half across 



