444 EXOTIC MICKOLEPIDOPTERA. 



Hindwings witli 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximated; blackish, 

 in cS with scattered hairscales ; cilia grej-, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, from December to February {Parish) ; 

 Dutch Guiana, Onoribo, in March ; three specimens. 



Stenoma vexata, n. sp. 



c? 2 17-18 mm. Head bronzy-grey, face in S white, in § 

 bronzy-whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint in S with dark grey 

 streak on basal halt", in 5 suffused with bronzj'-grey on apical half, 

 terminal joint with anterior edge grey except towards base. 

 Antennal ciliations of S 2. Thorax dark purple-fuscous, with 

 short pale ochreous line from anterior margin on inner side of 

 patagia. Abdomen dark grej', anal tuft in ^ grey above, whitish- 

 ochreous on sides. Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly mode- 

 rately, then slightly arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, little 

 oblique ; 2 separate ; dark purple-fuscous ; a pale ochreous dash 

 on base of fold, and a shorter mark from base above it ; costal and 

 discal area from i irregularly marked with short slender pale 

 ochreous longitudinal marks ; dorsal scale-projection at | pale 

 ochreous ; plical and second discal stigmata cloudy, blackish ; 

 an irregular cloudy pale ochreous line from | of costa to termen 

 beneath apex ; five or six dark fuscous dots on termen, more or 

 less surrounded irregularly with pale ochreous : cilia grey-whitish, 

 basal third light grey. Hindwings with 3 and 4 sboit-stalked, 

 5 approximated ; dark grey ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal 

 shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in January and February (Parish) • 

 three specimens. 



Stenoma paracapna, n. sp. 



r c?. 15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, Antennal 

 ciliations Ig. Abdomen grej', anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, little oblique; 2 and 3 stalked, 4 connate; 

 fuscous ; costa suffused with dark ashy-grey tinged with purple, 

 more broadly towards base, more or less interrupted at ^ and i, 

 sometimes spotted with blackish posteriorly ; discal stigmata 

 indistinct, dark grey, plical hardly marked, very obliquely beyond 

 first discal ; from costal suffusion at |^ a very strongly curved 

 series of dark grey or blackish dots runs to tornus ; an indistinct 

 interrupted dark grey terminal line : cilia grey. Hindwings with 

 3 and 4 stalked, 5 nearly approximated ; dark grey, strewn with 

 blackish hairscales ; cilia grey. 



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



Stenoma epipacta, n. sp. 



cJ . 19 mm. Head whitish. Palpi white, second joint infus- 

 cated except apex, with dark fuscous streak on basal j, extreme 



