EUCOSMIDiE. 533 



elongate-triangular, termen slight!}- rounded, rather oblique ; dark 

 grey, slightly purplish-tingod, posteriorly obscurely whitish- 

 speckled ; a moderate median leaden-purplish transverse fascia 

 from two pairs of fine whitish costal strigulaB, angulated above 

 middle ; costa posteriorly with five pairs of fine white strigulaa, 

 emitting short leaden-purplish marks ; a broad obscure })urpli8h- 

 leaden erect streak from tornus reaching | across wing and 

 meeting first of these, beyond it an irregular series of fire small 

 blackish dots, above these a very fine oblique black strigula ; a 

 cloudy black apical dot, and a small dot near termen beneath 

 apex : cilia leaden, a dark grey basal line. Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia light grey, a dark grey basal line. 



BuiziL, Sautarem, August (Parish) ; 1 ex. 



Laspeyresla chalyhdica, n. sp. 



2 . 9 mm. Head, thorax grey. Palpi ochreous-whitish, a 

 small dark grey spot on middle of second joint, terminal joint and 

 apex of second irrorated dark grey. Forewiugs rather elongate- 

 triangular, termen bowed, somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous, costa 

 with pairs of fine oblique white strigulae throughout, a single 

 white striga just before apex ; basal half of wing crossed by curved 

 suftused leaden-grey striae, on dorsum an obscure quadrate spot of 

 similar striation beyond middle ; from beyond middle of costa a 

 thick curved purplish-leaden streak to near dorsum before tornus, 

 beyond this a blackish line broken on lower part into three or four 

 dots terminated beneath by a blackish dash above a leaden tornal 

 spot ; a short leaden erect streak from termen above tornus ; a 

 white dot on termen boneath apex : cilia light glossy grey, 

 a blackish basal line. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia pale grey, a 

 dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Peru, Iquitos, May (Parish) ; 1 ex. 



Laspeyresia ancoloba, n. sp. 



c? . 10-12 mm. Head, palpi, thorax grey. Forewings rather 

 elongate-triangular, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; leaden- 

 grey, pale-speckled ; costa from | with groups of two or three very 

 fine whitish strigulie, alternating with dark fuscous spots or marks ; 

 a slightly curved somewhat oblique dark fuscous striga from 

 middle of dorsum reaching half across wing; central fascia narrow, 

 rather oblique, dark fuscous, dilated on dorsum, posterior edge in 

 middle with a prominent lobe of which apex is pointed and bent 

 upwards ; beyond this an obscure leaden irregular fascia forming 

 anterior margin of ocellus, which has a leaden spot beneath it, a 

 leaden streak on posterior margin, and four indistinct interior 

 blackish dots, lowest larger and elongate ; a dark fuscous line from 

 costa at I to apex of ocellus ; apical area suffused dark fuscous, a 

 subapical mark of whitish irroration touching praeapical white 



