t!OSMOrT£UrGID."E. 570 



connected by a pale silvery-blue-metallic streak, an ochreous-yellow 

 s[)ot preceding this above middle, and elongate marks or spots 

 following it above and below middle ; a silvery murk at apex : 

 cilia grey, black basal, median, and apical lines, last interrupted 

 white above apex. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Brazil, TefFe, January ; Peru, K. Najjo, May {Parish) ; 5 ex. 



Mompha sectifera, n. sp. 



2 . 8 mm. Head, thorax grey, face iridescent-whitish. Palpi 

 wliitish speckled dark grey, terminal joint shoi'ter than second. 

 Pore wings elongate, apex acute, lermen very oblique ; dark grey 

 ■speckled white ; two slender blackish dashes towards base above 

 middle ; an oblique black mark vn costa at -|- ; a tuft towards 

 dorsum before middle; a very oblique black striga from middle of 

 costa, beneath this a yellow-ochreous blotch traversed by a white 

 longitudinal line edged beneath by a shorter black line, and a 

 yellow^-ochreous dash on fold, these terminated by a dark grey 

 fascia at ^ speckled white and edged silvery-metallic on lower half 

 posteriorly ; beyond this a blackish blotch on costal half limited by 

 a fine yellowish dash projecting from middle of fascia, and a 

 yellow-ochreous tornal spot followed by an oblique silvery striga 

 from tornus, apical area beyond this blackish finely si)ccklcd 

 ■whitish : cilia grey, round apex speckled whitish, a blackish hook 

 above apex. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 

 EuAziL, TefFe, December {ParisJt) ; 1 ex. 



Ascalenia revelata, n. sp. 



J 2 . 7-8 mm. Head ochreous- whitish, more or less tinged gre}-. 

 Palpi ochreous-whitish, anteriorly speckled black, AnteuTiaj grey, 

 apical fourth whitish. Thorax ochreous-grey-whitish more or -less 

 sprinkled dark fuscous. Anal tuft J whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate-lanceolate ; dark grey, points of scales whitish, forming a 

 fine transverse striation ; stigmata rather large, black, discal 

 approximated, plical very obliquely before first discal ; a whitish 

 dot on costa at | : cilia light greyish, round apex darker grey pale- 

 speckled. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Brazil, Para, Mauaos, June, July, November; Peru, E. Napo> 

 May (Parish); 8 ex. Near cathidrotu^ but without the dark head, 

 thorax, and base of forewings. 



Ascalenia praediata, n. sp. 



<5 . 7-8 mm. Head, thorax dark violet-grey. Pal{)i dark 

 fuscous speckled whitish. Antennje dark grey, apical fourth 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; dark grey, minutely jjale- 

 speckled, towards a|iex violet-tinged ; plical and second discal 

 stigmata black, plical finely whitish-ringed ; a minute whitish dot 

 on costa at i, and one on tornus slightly before this : cilia grey 

 Bieckled black round apex. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



PioKL', Iquitos, Jurimagiias, March to May (Parish) ; 2 ex. 



2 I" 2 



