624 EXOTIC JIICKOLEPIDOPTERA. 



MYROPHTLA, ii. g. 



Palpi second joint without apical tuft, terminal joint as long or 

 longer; forcwings 7 to apex; hiudwings with cubital pecten. 

 Type curycina Mejr. 



Myrophila carycina Meyr. 



(^ $. 17-20 mm. Head dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, 

 usually an ochreous posterior spot. Forewings termen sliglitly 

 sinuate ; brownish-ochreous, sprinkled ferruginous-brown strigultc ; 

 base dark fuscous ; costal edge partially suffused dark ferruginous- 

 brown ; a ferruginous-brown slightly oblique fascia from middle of 

 dorsum extending | across wing, posterior edge undefined, apex 

 including an elongate rather dark fuscous spot ; a slightly oblique 

 transverse ferruginous-brown mark on end of cell ; blackish mar- 

 ginal dots round apex and termen : cilia brownish-ochreous. 

 Hinfl wings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



BitiTisH Guiana, Bartica ; Brazil, Manaos (ParisJi) ; 5 ex. 

 Eede-icribed, as original description is vitiated by inclusion of 

 another species. 



Myrophila caryophragma, n. sp. 



$. 20-23 mm. Head dark grey. Palpi second joint dark fus- 

 cous speckled whitish, terminal somewhat longer, ochreous-whitisli, 

 anterior edge dark fuscous. Thorax deej) ferruginous-brown partly 

 suffused dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather dilated pos- 

 teriorly, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique ; 

 ferruginous-ochreous ; suffused ferruginous-brown costal and sub- 

 costal streaks confluent posteriorly and not reaching apex, costal 

 edge suffused dark fuscous ; two ferruginous-brown dots obliquely 

 placed in disc at 5, sometimes absorbed in subcostal streak, an 

 inwards-oblique streak from subcostal streak before middle to 

 dorsum concealing anterior stigmata, a shorter less oblique streak 

 on end of cell, and two hardly curved obscure shades enclosing a 

 subterminal shade of groundcolour; a marginal series of blackish 

 triangular dots round apex and termen : cilia ferruginous-brown. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, a broad darker basal shade. 



British Guiaka, Mallali, March; Brazil, Para, July (.Pam/j); 

 2 ex. 



Myrophila diacnista, n. sp. 



2 . 20 mm. Head, thorax purplish- brown, sides of head tinged 

 ferruginous. Palpi second joint brown, terminal considerably 

 longer, ochreous-whitish, anteriorly suffused dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat 

 oblique; greyish-violet strongly strigulatcd rather dark fuscous, 

 costal edge suffused ferruginous brown ; an obscure rather dark 

 fnscous spot in disc at |, similar spots representing stigmata, 

 plical and second discal centred blackish, plical and first discal 



