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again in the Xylonjctidae, forming a very natural aggregate with 

 uniform type of palpi and hindwings. 



Aphanoxena pellocoma, u, sp. 

 d" . 16 mm. Head dark grey with strong blue-purple reflection, 

 face whitish. Palpi grey, extreme tip white. Thorax white, 

 shoulders with a grey spot. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elon- 

 gate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, liardly 

 oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked ; white ; two blackish dots transversely 

 placed on end of cell ; a grey quadrate blotch extending from these 

 to termen and reaching dorsum but not costa, becoming dark grey 

 towards termen, and crossed anteriorly by a faint whitish shade 

 and posteriorly by a fine white line denticulate towards tornus : 

 cilia bronzy-grey, on costa white. Hindwings white, suffused with 

 light grey on apical third ; a long whitish subcostal hairpencil lying 

 beneath forewings ; cilia white, base tinged with grey. 



Bkitish Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish) • one specimen. 



Aphanoxena balanocentra, n. sp. 

 ■" c? ? • 16-19 mm. Head and thorax white, in 5 largely suffused 

 with grey. Palpi white, with dark fuscous streak above towards 

 base. Antennal cilations of J 2. Abdomen ocbreous-whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen i-ounded, little oblique, dorsum rather expanded from 

 base to 4 ; 7 and 8 stalked ; in (S white, in $ ochreous-whitish ; 

 a faint grey oblique interrupted line near base ; a small dark grey 

 spot on costa at ^, whence a very irregular oblique interrupted 

 faint grey line crosses wing ; an oval black spot on upper angle of 

 cell, and a dot beneath its posterior extremity ; a fascia composed 

 of two dark fuscous streaks suffused together with fuscous from 

 costa beyond middle to dorsum before tornus, curved outwards 

 round discal spot and posterior edge obtusely angulated above 

 middle, widest and darkest towards dorsum ; a fuscous terminal 

 band mixed with white, only separated from preceding on lower | 

 by a white line, edged on termen by a white toothed line with 

 interspaces filled with dark fuscous : cilia white with two or three 

 fuscous shades more or less developed, darkest round apex. Hind- 

 wings in S ochreous-whitish, in § light greyish ; a small irregular 

 dark fuscous spot on costa before apex ; costal margin in c? ex- 

 panded from base to |, with long rough projecting hairscales 

 towards middle suffused with grey beneath, and long ochreous- 

 whitish subcostal hairpencil lying beneath forewings ; cilia white, 

 with a dark fuscous patch above apex, and fuscous basal line on 

 termen, in d becoming obsolete downwards. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from December to March 

 (ParisJi) ; eight specimens. 



, Aphanoxena acrograpta, n. sp. 



S . 16 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white. Palpi white, 

 with grey streak above near base. Antennal cilations 2. Abdomen 



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