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EXOTIC JIICROLIU'IDOPTEHA . 



projection I'roin centre of wliieh a wliite ternoinal line runs to apex : 

 cilia giej', on costal spot white, at apex a line white bar. llind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



BiiAZiL, Obidos, K. Trombetas, August, September; Peru, Juri- 

 maguas, March (Parifh) ; 5 ex. 



Cosmopteryx apiculata, u. sp. 



(^ 2 . 8-lJ mm. Head bronzy-blackish, three white lines on 

 crown, face brassy-whitish. Palpi white, lined blackish. Anteniiie 

 black lined white, 2 apical joints blackish, then 2 white, 5 black, 



1 white, 1 black, 1 white. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft ochreous- 

 whitish. Eorewings caudate ; blackish ; a fine white diverging 

 lino beneath costa from base to |, and rather short median and 

 subdorsal lines, apex of each mther obliquely beyond the one above 

 it- dorsal edge white from base to near middle; costal edge shortly 

 white before band ; an ochreous-yellowish postmedian band, mar- 

 gined anteriorly by a narrow pale golden-metallic nearly direct 

 transverse streak hardly reaching costa and followed by a black dot 

 in disc, and posteriorly by dorsal and small subcostal pale golden- 

 metallic spots edged anteriorly bj^ a few blackish scales, subcostal 

 somewhat posterior and connected with costa by a white spot, 

 yellow colour projecting between these ; a usually interrupted 

 white terminal line from near beyond this to apex : cilia dark grey, 

 a white apical bar. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Brazil, Para, Obidos, Parintins, July to October ; Peru, Juri- 

 maguas, March (Prtr/s/i) ; Ilex. l!\ext j^entacJwnla. 



Cosmopteryx inangurata, n. sp. 



(5. 8 mm. Head dark bronzy-grey, thiee extremely fine whitish 

 lines on crown, face whitish -tinged. Palpi white lined blackish. 

 Antenna3 black lined white, 4 apical joints white, then 5 blaekish, 



2 white, 1 black, 2 white. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft whitish. 

 Forewings caudate ; blackish ; a fine white diverging line beneath 

 costa from base to 5, and rather short median and subdorsal lines, 

 apex of each rather obliquely beyond the one above it ; dorsal edge 

 white from base to near middle ; costal edge shortly white before 

 band; an orange postmedian band, margined anteriorly by a pale 

 golden-metallic streak somewhat inwards-oblique from dorsum, and 

 posteriorly by costal and dorsal pale golden-metallic spots edged 

 anteriorly with a few blackish scales, costal somewhat posterior, 

 between these a linear orange projection continued as a white 

 terminiil line to a])ex : cilia giey, wliite on posterior edge of band, 

 a white apical bar. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Brazil, Para, July {ParisJi) ; 1 ex. Also obtained from Para 

 were thrasi/zela, erasvna, isotoma. and mimetis, the last two extend- 

 in j; up to Jurimaguas in Peru. 



Cosmopteryx caHiclialca, n. sp. 

 cJ . 8-9 mm. Head bronzy, three white lines on crown, face 



