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edge white; three irregular oblique dark fuscous marks from costa 

 between base and middle ; triangular dark fuscous spots on costa 

 at middle and 4, becoming brownish beneath ; a large irregular- 

 edged pinkish-brown patch extending on dorsum from base to 

 beyond middle and reaching more than half across wing, with a 

 broad quadrate lobe almost reaching median costal spot, a small 

 round whitish spot in middle of dorsal edge of this ; second discal 

 stigma dai k fuscous ; an irregular curved light pinkish-brown hne 

 from median costal spot to dorsum at |, enlarged in disc into an 

 irregular blotch; a curved line of cloudy light brown dots from 

 posterior costal spot to dorsum before tornus ; a terminal series of 

 ten blackish dots : cilia brownish-grey, dark grey on apex, grey- 

 whitish on tornus. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate ; rather dark grey ; 

 cilia pale grey, a darker subbasal shade. 

 French Gdiana, E. Maroni ; one specimen. 



y Stenoma sequestra, n. sp. 



c^ § . 22 mm. Head pale grey, face whitish except sides. Palpi 

 white, second joint irrorated fuscous, terminal joint with dark 

 fuscous anterior and external lines. Antennal ciliations 2|. Tliorax 

 light grey suffusedly irrorated dark brownish. Abdomen whitish, 

 obscurely irrorated' grey, Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly 

 gently arched, then straight, apex rounded-obtuse, termen nearly 

 straight, vertical, rounded beneath; whitish-grey, very faintly 

 violet-tinged; costal edge white; a large basal patch of dark 

 brownish irroration, edge running from beyond ^ of costa to -i of 

 dorsum, somewhat convex; an oblique dark fuscous mark on costa 

 at i; second discal stigma forming a dark fuscous transverse 

 mark; a blackish elongate mark on costa beyond middle, whence 

 an oblique irregular brownisli line runs to a brownish ring beyond 

 second discal stigma ; a flattened-triangular blackish s])ot on costa 

 at 4, whence a rattier strongly curved brown-grey line runs to 

 dorsum before tornus; a terminal series of black dots or marks: 

 cilia light grey, base whitish. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate; 

 ochreous-grey-whitish ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



French Guiana, Godebert, R. Maroni; two specimens. 



J Stenoma plebicola, n. sp. 



J 5 . 2G-28 mm. Head whitish-grey-ochreous, face more 

 whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint dark grey except tctwards 

 apex, terminal joint anteriorly greyish-tinged. Antennal ciliations 

 J 2. Thorax light greyish-ochreous. Abdomen light grey, anal 

 tuft J whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, rather 

 dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen 

 rounded, hardly oblicjue; light greyish-ochreous, very faintly pinkish- 

 tinged ; plical and second discal stigmata small, blackish-grey ; a 

 line of indistinct cloudy grey dots from costa at | to dorsum at 4, 

 curved outwards from | to | of its length; a marginal series of 

 blackish dots round apex and termen : cilia whitish-ochreous. 



