436 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTKRA. 



5j_nTifj^ 4 f^minn te. 5 approximated : blacldsli-grey ; cilia f^re}-, 

 darker towards base. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in February (Parish); one specimen. 

 Allied to actista. 



Stenoma platyterma, n. sp. 



2 . 18 mm. Head wbite or whitisb, sides of crown witb a 

 blackish streak. Palpi white, second joint with a streak on basal 

 half and supramediau band, terminal joint with basal and median 

 bands and apex blackish. Thorax dark I'uscous with broad ochreons- 

 white dorsal stripe. Abdomen grey. Forewiiigs elongate, costa 

 anteriorly strongly arched, sinuate in middle, moderately arclied 

 towards apex, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique ; 

 2 anastomosing with 1 c ; light brownish, slightly sprinkled with 

 darker, toAvards costa anteriorly becoming pale brownish-ochreous; 

 a triangular dark fuscous spot on base of costa ; a suffused elongate 

 dark fuscous spot along basal third of dorsum, dorsal scale-projection 

 mixed with white ; an indistinct irregular waved dark fuscous line 

 from a small spot on -^ of costa to | of dorsum ; a dark fuscons 

 streak along costa from | to |, each extremity marked with blackish 

 and suffused with dark brown, from anterior extremity an oblique 

 deiitatedark brown line runs half across wing; a broad paleochreous- 

 yellowish band occupying terminal fourth of wing, its anterior edge 

 rather concave in middle and convex on lower half, marked with 

 blackish towards dorsum ; within this band is a faint submarginal 

 fascia of yellower or grey-yellowish suffusion ; an elongate blackish 

 marginal mark above apex, two dots above this, and an indistinctly 

 interrupted terminal line from beneath to near tornus: cilia ^vhitish- 

 yellowish, with fuscous subbasal line except towards tornus. Hind- 

 wings with 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximated; grey; a])ex 

 suffused with whilisli and marked with dark fuscous on margin ; 

 cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish) ; two specimens. 

 Allied to trimcatala. 



Stenoma modulata, n. sp. 



c? . 1 7 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides of crown dark fuscous. 

 Palpi wbite, second joint dark fuscous except apex and a faint 

 supramedian ring, terminal joint with dark fuscous basal band and 

 anterior streak on apical third. Aiitennal ciliations 2. Thorax 

 fuscous, shoulders with a ferruginous s]!ot. Abdome?i dark 

 grey. Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly moderately, prste- 

 riorly gently arched, hardly sinuate in middle, apex rounded- 

 obtuse, termen almost straight, somewhat obliq-.ie, rounded beneath ; 

 2 separate ; brownish ; base narrowly suffused with dark fuscous ; 

 beyond this an ochreous spot beneath costa, surrounded with dark 

 fuscous ; at \ of costa a dark brown spot becoming blackish 

 on costa, whence an irregular dark fuscous line runs to a 

 triangular dark fuscous blotch on middle of dorsum ; a dark 



