2'JO EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



or in one example to apex: cilia oclireons-white, iwo dark fuscous 

 lines more or less developed. Hindwings brassy-grey. 



JJKrrisu Guiana, Bartica, January, February {Parish) ; three 

 specimens. 



GRACILARIAD.E. 



Spanioptila codicaria, n. sp. 



5 . 9 mm. Head, thorax sliining whitish-ochreous, face silvery- 

 shining. Palpi whitish, second joint with grey lateral line and 

 apical dot. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings very nari'ow, parallel- 

 sided, shortly obtuse-pointed ; greyish-ochreous irrorated dark 

 grey, tending to form transverse strigulation, towards costa and 

 apex more suffused ; three or four small cloudy spots of blackish 

 irroration longitudinally arranged in disc posteriorly; a fine very 

 oblique strigula from costa before apex composed of four minute 

 silvery-white dots connected with l)Iack, and a similar streak of 

 more elongate dots along termen : cilia grej', on costa white before 

 apex, above apex a dark grey hook terminating in a blackish apical 

 spot, on termen greyish-orhreous towards base, with blackish sub- 

 apical spot containing a fine silvery -white mark. Hindwings and 

 cilia dark purplish-grey. 



Ueazil, Para, July (Parish) ; one specimen. A curious species, 

 more like an Acrocercops. 



j Spanioptila nemeseta, n. sp. 



d" . 11 mm. Head, thorax shining whitish. Palpi white, ter- 

 minal joint somewhat longer than second, faint grey supramedian 

 ring on second joint, and subbasal ring on terminal. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate, acute ; white, with faint fine irregular 

 interrupted rather oblique transverse pale ochreous striae ; some 

 black speckling on these at 4-, |, and j, the last forming a more 

 marked spot of black irroration on costal half, a pale ochreous line 

 running from this beneath costa to apex : cilia pale greyish, round 

 apex whitish, a faint grey apical bar. Hindwings grey, suffused 

 dark fuscous from near base to beyond middle ; cilia grej% Fore- 

 wings and hindwings beneath similarly suffused dark fuscous from 

 near base to beyond middle. 



Brazil, Parintins, Lower Amazon, October (Parish) • on^ speci- 

 men. Apparently near spinosa Wals. (which I have not seen), but 

 distinguished by longer terminal joint of palpi, and dark fuscous 

 Butiusion of hindwings. 



\ Acrocercops eurychalca, n, sp. 



(S . 7 mm. Head whitish-bronzy. Palpi slender, white. 

 Thorax greyish-bronze. Abdomem dark grey, segmental margins 

 mixisd with whitish, anal tuft whitish. Forewings verj' narrow, 

 parallel-sided, short-pointed ; dark fuscous ; two pale brassy- 

 metallic broad-triangular dorsal blotches, their apices resting on 



