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102 EXUTIC JIICROLEPIDOrTERA. 



basal third indigo limited by a blackish line followed by -whitish 

 and iiideiiti-d with white on terminal sinuation, at apex with a 

 blackish hook. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Jjkitish Uuiana, Bartica, in February {Parish); one specimen. 



Glyphipteryx falcigera, n. sp. 



d 2 • ^^'t ^^^- Il^ad and thorax shining bronze. Palpi while 

 with four black bars and a short black streak on anterior edge 

 at apex. Abdomen dark bronzy-fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 posteriorly somewhat dilated, cost a tov\ard.s apex gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, tcrmeu rather obliquely rounded, slightly sinuate 

 above middle ; dark fuscous ; a moderate oblique semicrescentic 

 white streak from middle of dorsum, reaching half across wing ; 

 u slender leaden-metallic black-e.lged augulated streak running 

 from costa beyond middle to dorsum before tornus, white on costal 

 fourth and at dorsal extremity ; a similar nearly straight streak 

 close beyond this from ^ of costa to tornus, white towards costa ; 

 three short wedge-shaj)ed white marks on costa posteriorly; terminal 

 area beneath these suffused with blackish; two indistinct leaden- 

 metallic dots on lower part of termen : cilia pale greyish, at apex 

 with a black hook, on termen with basal half bronzy-tuscous 

 limited by a black line edged with white externally, and indeiited 

 with, white above middle of termen. Hindwings and cilia rather 

 darlc fuscous. 



Brijish Guiana, Eartica, iu February (Parish) ; six specimens. 



Glypliipteryx crinita, n. sp. 



cT 5. 11-12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Palpi white, second joint barred wnth black, terminal joint with 

 black anterior streak. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 blackish ; a triangular pale whitish-ochreous blotch on dorsum 

 before midile, reaching | across wing ; a sufEupod yellow-oclu'eous 

 curved streak near beyond this, not reacliing dorsum, sometimes 

 obsolete; violet-blue-metallic parallel streaks from costa at f and^, 

 reaching half across wing, and a transverse streak from dorsum 

 between these, also reaching half across wing, where it meets a 

 yellow-ochreous streak from middle of costa ; these markings are 

 nearly followed on costa by a short yellow-ochreous streak, and a 

 vit>let-silvery-metallic streak reaching half across wing ; an oblique 

 violet-metallic streak from costa posteriorly to middle of termen, 

 preceded by a slight fulvous tinge and followed by an orange streak 

 becoming usually white on costa, and then by a white streak tipped 

 with violet-metallic ; between these markings and the pra^tornal 

 metallic streak is a large circular tornal patch suffusedly striated 

 longitudinally with whitish except along lower half of termen, 



