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Stenonia melanocrypta, n. sp. 



c?. 14 mm. Head ochreous-whitisb, crown partially suffused 

 with greyish-ochreous. Palpi wLitish, second joint fuscous except 

 apex, terminal joint with base and apex blackish. Antennal 

 ciliations 1. Thorax pale whitish-ochreous, pinkish-tinged. Ab- 

 domen whitish. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa gently arched, 

 apex rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 2 and 3 stalked, 

 4 connate ; pale whitish-ochreous, pinkish-tinged, with irregularly 

 scattered ferruginous-brown scales ; costa narrowly grey from base 

 to middle ; a short dark reddish-brown mark from base in middle ; 

 an undefined cloudy ferruginous-fuscous line from ^ of costa to 

 beyond middle of dorsum ; a cloudy fuscous spot on fold beyond 

 this representing plical stigma; a transverse ferruginous-fuscous 

 mark on end of cell ^ a triangular dark fuscous spot on costa beyond 

 middle, whence an undefined interrupted irregularly curved ferru- 

 ginous-fuscous line runs to 4 of dorsum ; a suffused triangular dark 

 fuscous spot on costa at |, whence a curved ferruginous-fuscous line 

 runs to tornus ; a greyish marginal line dotted with dark fuscous 

 round apex and termen : cilia whitish. Hindvvings with 3 and 4 

 short-stalked, 5 approximated ; whitish ; an elongate-oval subdorsal 

 patch of dense black hairscales ; apex narrowly greyish ; cilia 

 whitish. 



Beitish Guiana, 1\. Essequibo, in June; one specimen. 



Stenoma pliysotricha, n. sp. 



J. 23 mm. Head pale ochreous. Pali)i ochreous-whitish, 

 second joint suffused with fuscous except apex. Antennal cili- 

 ations 2, Thorax brownish-ochreous. Abdomen greyish, anal tuft 

 pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 vertical ; 2 separate ; light ocbreous-brownish ; stigmata dark 

 fuscous, plical very obliquely beyond first discal ; a flattened-trian- 

 gular fuscous spot on costa at |, whence a curved series of elongate 

 dark fuscous dots, indented beneath costa, runs to dorsum before 

 tornus: cilia light ocbreous-brownish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 

 connate, 5 approximated ; grey, darker towards apex ; cilia whitish- 

 fuscous. Forewings beneath with dense expansible fringe of very 

 long pale ochreous hairs along vein Ic from base to middle 

 of wing. 



VnNEZTJELA, Carupano, in December ; one specimen. 



Stenoma pyrrMas, n. sp. 



d 5 . 18-22 mm. Head in c? ochreous-whitish, in $ pale 

 ochreous, slightly pinkish-tinged. Palpi ocbreous-brownish, ter- 

 minal joint whitish. Antennal ciliations of J U. Thorax violet- 

 brown. Abdomen pale ochreous, rosy-tinged, especially beneath. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa anteriorly 

 moderately, then slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly 

 straight, somewhat oblique ; 2 separate ; violet-oehrcous-brown ; 



