416 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEIIA. 



rather narrow, costa gently arched towards extremities, faintly 

 sinuate in cJ beyond middle, apex ronnded, termen rounded, little 

 oblique; 2 separate, in. 6 *> and 7 stalked, i) to apex, 10 and 11 

 stalked, in $ veins normal; shining white; in J a deep groove 

 beneath costa from base to middle, containing a long white ex- 

 pansible hairpencil; a small dark fuscous mark on base of costa ; 

 a fuscous spot on base of dorsum followed by indistinct fuscous 

 irroration on dorsal half to |, in $ sometimes forming a fuscous 

 blotch ; three dark fuscous transverse lines, first from I of costa 

 (in d obsolete above groove) to dorsum at |, irregular, somewhat 

 curved, followed by a suffused quadrate dark fuscous dorsal blotch 

 extending to third, third from costa at f to dorsum before tornus, 

 curved beneath ; more or less fuscous suffusion between these lines 

 towards costa, in 2 sometimes strongly develo])ed ; second discal 

 stigma merged in second line, sometimes emitting a dark fuscous 

 projection anteriorly ; seven large dark fuscous marginal dots 

 round apex and termen : cilia white, sometimes with fuscous sub- 

 basal line, on tornus fuscous, Hindwings with 3 and 4 st alked, 

 5 closely. apprDxiBiated ; grey, in 5 darker; cilia pale grey, with 

 darker subbasal shade, round apex and upper part of termen 

 suffused with whitish. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from January to March 

 (Pai'ish); six specimens. 



Stenoma vannifera, n. sp. 



c?. 15 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint wn'th dark 

 fuscous streak on basal |-. Antennal ciliations 2|. Thorax fuscous, 

 anterior margin white, posterior margin marked with white ; behind 

 base of posterior coxiB two twisted membranous projections termi- 

 nating in expanded tufts of long curled woolly ochreoua-whitish 

 hairs. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa anteriorly moderately, then slightly arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, little oblique ; 2 separate ; white ; a short dark 

 fuscous oblique mark on base of costa ; a dark fuscous longitudinal 

 median lino from base to 5, space beneath it infuscated ; a dark 

 fuscous elongate spot on base of dorsum ; an irregular dark fuscous 

 blotch on dorsum at 5, and a larger subtriangular ono at |, their 

 apices connected by an interrupted dark fuscous streak; a short 

 dark fuscous longitudinal mark in disc before middle ; a straight 

 very oblique dark fuscous line from before middle of costa to above 

 apex of second dorsal blutch ; a dark fuscous line from | of costa 

 to tornus, curved at lower extremity ; three large angular black 

 dots on apical margin, central largest and bilobed : cilia white, 

 with grey basal line, at apex with grey patch. Hindwings with 

 ',i and 4 stalked, 5 closely apjiroximated ; whitish, somewhat 

 tinged with grey before apex and towards middle of termen ; 

 cilia white, with faint greyish line. 



Pekit, Pacaya, in July [Moimsey); one specimen. 



