442 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOrTKRA. 



supramedian band of dark fuscous suffusion, terminal joint twisted- 

 sinuate backwards above middle, thickened anteriorly with dense 

 dark fuscous scales on lower part of siuuation. Antennal cilia- 

 tions 2g. Thorax darii ashy-fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen slightly rounded, nearly vertical ; 3 and 4 out of 2 ; 

 rather dark fuscous ; a dense expansible tuft or brush of very 

 long spatulate fuscous scales beneath costa from base to middle, 

 partially covered by a spreading fringe of dense brownish scales 

 from costa, costal edge above this ferruginous, and roughened with 

 fuscous scales towards base ; plical and second discal stigmata 

 blackish ; a cloudy blackish streak running from beneath middle 

 of costa round posterior margin of cell, thence indistinctly con- 

 tinued to tornus ; a curved series of indistinct cloudy blackish dots 

 from costa beyond middle to tornus ; four small blackish spots 

 on costa posteriorly, separated by whitish-ochreous ; six cloudy 

 blackish marginal dots rouud termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, with 

 light greyish shade, towards tornus fuscous, above apex with dark 

 fuscous spot. Hind wings with 3 and 4 stalked, 5 nearly approxi- 

 mated; blackish ; cilia grey, with dark grey subbasal shade. 



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

 The crooked terminal joint of palpi is quite peculiar, but doubtless 

 only sexual : the species is r.early related to baUandra. 



Stenoma baliandra, n. sp. 



6 $ . 15-17 mm. Head light brownish, face whitish. Palpi 

 silvery-whitish, second joint with more or less developed dark 

 fuscous streak and subapical band, terminal joint with base and 

 supramedian ring black. Antennal ciliations of (^ 1|. Thorax 

 light brownish, more or less suffused with dark fuscous except 

 anteriorly. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, widest 

 before middle and somewhat narrowed posteriorly, costa anteriorly 

 moderately arched, with median prominence of rough scales, 

 beyond this faintly sinuate, apex rounded, termen rounded, 

 vertical; 3 and 4 out of 2; fuscous, somewhat mixed with 

 brownish-ochreous in disc and on veins posteriorly, in S irre- 

 gularly mixed and marked with whitish between this suffusion ; 

 costal edge more or less marked with pale ochreous, especially on 

 median prominence ; five very oblique irregular curved dentate 

 blackish lines, first two or three sometimes indistinct, last running 

 from beyond middle of costa strongly curved to toruus : a series of 

 blackish marginal marks round posterior part of costa and termen: 

 cilia pale ochreous, basal half chequered with fuscous or blackish, 

 towards tornus suffused with dark fuscous, in r? with outer half 

 brownitih. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 5 approximated ; 

 dark fuscous, in (^ strewn with blackish haiiscales; cilia grey, 

 with dark fuscous subbasal line ; in J a long whitish-ochreous 

 dorsal hairpencil from base. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from December to March 

 (Parish); six specimens. 



