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II. 



Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Bolivia and 

 Peru. By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 



[Read November 18th, 1908.] 



In the following paper seven genera and fifty-three species 

 from the highlands of Bolivia and Peru are described as 

 new. The altitudes of the localities quoted are stated as 

 under, viz. : 



Pozuzo, Peru . 

 El Porvenir, Peru 

 Aqualani, Peru 

 Songo, Bolivia 

 Chulumani, Bolivia 



2,500 feet. 

 3,000 feet. 

 9,000 feet. 

 6,500 feet. 

 6,500 feet. 



The examples described are in my own collection. 



PTEROPHORIDAE. 



Utuca prometopa, n. sp. 



$ 9 • 25-32 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, laterally tinged with 

 reddish-brown, with a strong conical horny frontal prominence 

 clothed with a very long conical tuft of scales (Sj). Palpi long, 

 ochreous- whitish irrorated with reddish-fuscous except towards apex. 

 Antennae ochreous-whitish lined with fuscous. Thorax ochreous- 

 whitish irrorated with reddish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous 

 more or less tinged or mixed with reddish-fuscous, with a lateral 

 white streak edged beneath with reddish-fuscous. Legs reddish- 

 fuscous, all tarsi white, anterior and middle tibiae white above. 

 Fore-wings cleft to f, first segment narrow, acute, second very 

 broad with pointed apex and obliquely rounded termen ; reddish- 

 brown becoming paler on posterior half, more or less sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous, especially anteriorly, and irregularly irrorated through- 

 out with whitish scales and strigulae ; cloudy round dark fuscous 

 dots in disc at \ and f , and another obliquely beyond and above 

 second : cilia pale brownish-ochreous mixed with reddish-fuscous, 

 round apex of wing suffused with dark reddish-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings grey, slightly reddish-tinged ; cilia light greyish-ochreous. 



Peru, Aqualani, in July and December ; five specimens. 

 Specially characterised by the unusually long frontal tuft. 

 TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1909. — PART I. (MAY) 



