558 EXOTIC MICEOLEPIDOrTERA. 



on both margins, and a rather large triangular blackish scale- 

 projection on lower margin just before apex. 



British Guiana, Georgetown, in April (Parish) ; one specimen. 



Platyptilia virilis, n. sp. 



(S . 12-13 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish. Palpi 

 black sprinkled vv^ith whitish, apex of second joint white. Fore- 

 wings very narrow towards base, posteriorly dilated, cleft to |, 

 segments moderate, terraen oblique, of first segment sinuate, of 

 second bisinuate ; blackish, on costa with about twelve minute 

 white dots, towards dorsum faintly striated with minute whitish 

 irroration, towards termen and on edge of cleft with a few whitish 

 specks, on both segments with a single transverse series of whitish 

 specks near tgrmen : cilia grey, on termen with blackish subbasal 

 line. Hindwings dark fuscous, third segment less than half 

 length of wing, linear ; a slender blackish scale-projection at lower 

 angle of second segment, and another on its lower margin near 

 before upper cleft ; a very small blackish scale-tooth in middle of 

 dorsum of third segment, and a moderate scaletuft beneath apex, 

 extended round it to upper edge. 



Colombia, Call, 500 feet, in May (^Parish); two specimens. vy 

 Allied to donatella. 



Platyptilia aestiiosa, n. sp. > 



6 $ • 17-20 mm. Head fuscous, with moderate conical frontal 

 t'lft. Palpi 2, fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, basal and 

 terminal joints mixed with whitish. Thorax fuscous, posteriorly 

 suffused with ochreous-whitish, with a round dark fuscous posterior 

 blotch. Abdomen whitish-grey irregularly mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings cleft to |, segments moderately broad, apex 

 obtuse, termen of first segment sinuate, somewhat oblique, of 

 second nearly straight, rather strongly oblique ; fuscous, with a 

 few scattered dark fuscous scales ; costa from base to cleft suft'used 

 with dark fuscous and crossed by whitish strigulte ; dorsal area 

 more or less obscurely strigulated with whitish, and p isterior part 

 of disc suffusedly sprinkled witli whitish ; a small cloudy dark 

 fuscous spot in disc beyond g, and two dots transversely placed 

 before cleft; a dark fuscous triangular blotch on costa in middle of 

 first segment, reaching | across it, edged ariteiiorly by a white 

 costal dot and posteriorly by a fine whitish transverse subterminal 

 line continued across second segment ; a small dark fuscous spot 

 on costa beyond this, rest of terminal area of first segment suff'used 

 with ochreous-brownish : cilia whitish, on termen basally fuscous 

 limited by a cloudy dark fuscous line, on second segment twice in- 

 terrupted by whitish, on dorsum with dark fuscous scale-projections 

 at I and beneath cleft. Hindwings grey, third segment slender, 

 reaching middle of wing ; cilia grey, with scattered blackish scales 

 on dorsum from base to |, and a moderate black dorsal scale- 

 projection near apex, preceded and followed by whitish patches. 

 Pjeku, Lima, 500 feet, in August [Parish) ; ten specimens. 



