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except towards base and apex, in $ dark grey ; cilia in c? whitish- 

 ocbreous, in 5 whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade. 



Eritish Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish); Dutch Guiana, 

 Onoribo, in March ; two specimens. These appear to be truly 

 sexes of the same species, though from different localities. 



Stenoma ehria, n. sp. 



$ . 16 mm. Head and thorax palo brownish-ochreous, face 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint rather 

 infuscated. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Forcwings elongate, 

 costa anteriorly moderately arched, sinuate beyond middle, apex 

 rounded-obtuse, terraen somewhat rounded, little oblique ; 2 sepa- 

 rate ; pale fuscous, irrorated with whitish and somewhat sprinkled 

 with blackish; a dark reddish-fuscous triangular blotch extending 

 on costa from middle to |, and reaching more than j across wing, 

 edged anteriorly with whitish, and cut near its middle by an 

 oblique strigula of groundcolour from costa ; a fine transverse- 

 linear blackish mark or pair of connected dots on end of cell ; 

 two rather curved series of cloudy dots of blackish irroratiou 

 running from this blotch posteriorly to dorsum towards toinus : 

 cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 

 conn ate, 5 approximated ; light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Venezuela, Ciuclad Bolivar, in May ; one specimen. 



Stenoma ascodes, n. ep. 



(^ §. 17-18 mm. Head purple-fuscous, face whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint with purple-fuscous streak, 

 more developed in § , terminal joint with purple-fuscous sufiusion 

 on apical half. Antcnnal ciliations of J' 2. Thorax deep fuscous- 

 purple. Abdomen dark grey. P'orewings elongate, considerably 

 widest before middle and narrowed posteriorly, costa strongly 

 arched to beyond middle, in J with strong membranous costal 

 fold from base to beyond middle, filled with whitish-ochreous 

 hairs, then slightly sinuate, ajjcx rounded, termen rounded, 

 vertical ; 2 and 3 stalked ; fuscous-purple ; costal edge deep 

 ferruginous from near base, more broadly posteriorly ; in $ indi- 

 cations of three somewhat darker irregular very oblique lines 

 running from anterior half of costa : cilia fuscous-purplish, darker 

 towards apex of wing. Hindwings with 3 and 4 short-stalked, 

 5 approximated ; dark grey, in S clothed withhairscales in disc ; 

 apical edge orange ; cilia whitish-grey, with darker subbasal shade, 

 at apex of wing suffused with purplish and abruptly terminated 

 just above apex. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, in January and March 

 [Parish); two specimens. 



^ Stenoma scoliandra, n. sp. 



J. 15 mm. Head silvery- wbitish, sidetufts and collar fuscous. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint with streak towards base and 



