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joint fuscous except apex, terminal joint with basal and supra- 

 median fuscous bands. Thorax fuscous sprinkled and spotted dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewiugs elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, terinen obliquely rounded; 

 pale greyish-ochreous irregularly sprinkled fuscous and dark fuscous ; 

 dark fuscous spots on costa at base, 5, beyond middle, and near 

 apex, and several small spots between these; roundish or oval dark 

 fuscous spots in disc before middle and at |, and on fold towards 

 base and beneath middle of wing ; two or three small irregular 

 spots on dorsum, and three on termen ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, 

 Avith interrupted dark fuscous bars, and subbasal line of dark 

 fuscous irroration. Hindwings grey, ligliter anteriorly; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, two faint greyish shades. 



Feench Guiana, ISt. Jean, li. Muroni, July; one specimen. 



EXONCOTIS, n. g. 



Head with dense loose hairscales ; ocelli inferior ; tongue obsolete. 

 Antennae f, in d" simple, rather stout, somewhat compressed, basal 

 joint short, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi rather long, curved, 

 ascending, basal and second joints densely tufted beneath with 

 rough hairscales, terminal joint about as long as second, stout, 

 scaled, obtuse. Maxillary palpi very sliort, drooping, loosely scaled. 

 Posterior tibia? rough-scaled above. Forewings 1 h furcate, 2 from 

 near angle, 7 to apex, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, elongate- 

 ovate, cilia 1^; 2 before remote, 3-7 rather near together and parallel. 



Allied to the two preceding. 



/ Eioncotis increpans, n, sp. 



(S . 13 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown somewhat mixed or 

 suffused fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, apex of second joint pale 

 ochreous, terminal joint pale ochreous with basal and supramedian 

 fuscous bands. Thorax pale ochreous, anteriorly more or less wholly 

 suffused dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 pale ochreous, a few scattered brownish scales : a blackish blotch 

 on base of costa, from which a brown suffusion mottled blackish 

 extends to a blackish spot at |, small blackish spots at | and before 

 apex, with two or three small strigulae ; discal stigmata black, first 

 small or obsolete, second transverse, its lower end connected by an 

 irregular brown streak mottled black with termen above tornus, 

 some blackish mottling along termen from this to near apex ; some- 

 times a suffused brownish spot on dorsum before tornus : cilia pale 

 ochreous, more or less barred fuscous or dark fuscous on dark 

 markings. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 



French Guiana, St. Jean, R. Maroni, July; two specimens. 



J Myrmecozela corymbota, n. sp. 



(S . 17 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi dark fuscous, apex 

 of joints ochreous-whitish. Thorax ochreous-^vhitish, three dark 

 fuscous anterior spots. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 



