base ; light brownish strewn with coarse dark fuscous transverse 

 Btrigulte sprinkled blackish; irregular rather dark fuscous suffusion 

 occupying most of antemedian area and forming large blotches on 

 costa beyond middle and posterior halt of dorsum ; a small dark 

 fuscous spot near before a])ex : cilia light brownish-ochreous, base 

 spotted fuscous. Hindwings rather light fuscous; cilia pale 

 fuscous, a darker subbasal shade. 



Colombia, San Antonio, 5SU0 feet, November; on© specimen. 



j^ EPHEDROXENA, n. g. 



Head smooth ; ocelli ])o.sterior ; tongue obsolete. Antennse 1, in 

 S simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 long, curved, ascending, second joint rather short, smooth-scaled, 

 with lateral series of long bristles, terminal joint longer than 

 second, transversely flattened, obtuse. Maxillary palpi moderately 

 , long, porrected, filiform. Posterior tibiae smooth. Porewings 1 6 

 furcate, 2 from near angle, 7 to costa, 11 from somewhat before 

 middle. Hindwings under 1, elongate-ovate, shoulder median, 

 strongly marked, cilia 2; 2-7 parallel. 



Ephedroxena incisoria, n. sp. 



■/ c? 2. 8-9 mm. Head light brassy-grey. Palpi blackish edged with 

 fine white lines. Antennae whitish-ochreous, more or less infuseated 

 above. Thorax fuscous mixed dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey ; 

 ovipositor of 5 long. Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly 

 slightly, posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very 

 oblicjuely rounded ; purplish-fuscous suffusedly mixed dark fuscous; 

 in (5 an irregular ochreous-yellowish streak edged or suflused white 

 along fold ; an oblique whitish mark ou eud of cell ; a fine very 

 oblique white stri'gula from costa at | running halfway to apex ; a 

 series of minute white marginal irregular dots round apex and 

 termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, two partially developed fuscous 

 shades. Hindwings S brassy-grey, cilia pale grey, $ dark 

 bronzy-grey, cilia grey, 



British Guiina, Mallali, March {Parish); four specimens. A 

 curious form, of which the exact affinity is doubtful. 



j MYTHOPLASTIS, n. g. 



Head densely rough-haired ; ocelli inferior ; tongue obsolete. 

 Antennae g, in S serrate, ciliated, basal joint moderate, stout, 

 scaled, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, ascending, 

 second joint densely tufted with long rough scales beneath through- 

 out, terminal joint short, slender, loosely scaled, almost concealed 

 in scales of second. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibia3 

 clotlied with long rough hairs. Forewings 1 h simple, 2 from near 

 angle, 7 to termen, 8-10 approximated, 1 1 from \. Hindwings 1, 

 subovate, cilia |; 2-7 nearly parallel. 



^J Mythoplastis exanthes, n. sp. 



(5, 20-2.3 mm. Head, palpi brownish-ochreous. Thorax 

 reddish- ochreous-brown. Abdomen brownish-ochreous. Fore- 



