538 KXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTEEA. 



across wing, edged above and more strongly posteriorly with white 

 suffusion : cilia whitish-grey, with pale ochreous basal line, on 

 tornus whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 coincident ; ochreous- 

 white ; a very slender fuscous hairpencil lying in a submedian 

 groove from base ; cilia white. 



French Guiana, St. Jean, R. Maroni, in July ; one specimen. 



Stenoma tumulata, n. sp. 



c? . 22 mm. Head pale greyish-ochreous, crown suffused with 

 purple-grey. Palpi whitish, second joint purple-grey, terminal joint 

 greyish anteriorly. Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax pale ochreous, 

 suffused with violet anteriorly, with brownish-violet posterior 

 blotch. Abdomen light greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex rounded off, termen 

 rounded, little oblique ; 2 separate ; pale ochreous, becoming 

 ochreous-brown towards costa and termen, costal edge fuscous ; a 

 large semi-fusiform violet patch extending along dorsum from near 

 base to tornus, widest in middle, where it reaches half across wing, 

 and thence gradually rounded-attenuated to a point at each end, 

 its upper margin marked on anterior half with a blackish-fuscous 

 streak edged beneath with some yellowish-ferruginous suffusion : 

 cilia pale violet- ochreous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate ; 

 rather dark grey, cell somewhat suffused with ochreous-whitish ; 

 cilia pale grey, with darker subbasal shade. Forewings beneath 

 with very long fuscous subdorsal hairpencil from base covered by 

 hindwings. 



French Guiana, E,. Maroni ; one specimen. 



Stenoma flexibilis, n. sp. 



S . 23-24 mm. Head whitish, sides of face violet-fuscous, 

 crown suffused except on sides with light violet-fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint violet-fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1. Thorax 

 whitish-violet-fuscous, darker dorsally. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, ver- 

 tical ; 2 separate ; whitish-violet-fuscous, costal edge whitish ; a 

 suffused dark fuscous streak from base of dorsum curved upwards 

 to beneath middle of wing and then descending to tornus, narrowly 

 obliquely interrupted at |, dorsal area within this mostly suffused 

 with violet, and including a slender violet-blackish somewhat 

 upcurved subdorsal streak in its median portion and another above 

 posterior portion of this running into upper streak towards tornus; 

 second discal stigma small, dark grey ; a slight oblique grey 

 strigula from costa before middle, whence a very oblique series of 

 several cloudy dark fuscous dots runs to disc beyond cell ; a small 

 triangular violet-fuscous apical blotch; a transverse mark of 

 blackish suffusion before termen in middle ; a terminal series of 

 subquadrate black dots suffused with dark brown : cilia greyish- 

 purple, with darker subbasal shade, on costa grey-whitish. Hind- 

 wings with 3 and 4 connate; grey, becoming daiker posteriorly ; 



