40 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



with clear white; a basal patch, edge running from \ of costa, 

 straight, oblique; an elongate narrow patch extending along costa 

 from before middle to apex, anteriorly pointed and preceded by a 

 slight blackish strigula, beneath with slight prominences at middle 

 and f of wing tipped with black scales probably representing discal 

 stigmata ; a small white costal mark intersecting this at 4 ; narrow 

 elongate brownish spots sprinkled with black on dorsum beyond 

 middle and on tornus ; a black apical dot ringed with white : cilia 

 whitisli, round apex with two dark fuscous lines. Hindwings 

 whitish-grey; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Colombia, La Crumbre, 6600 feet, in May (Parish) ; one 

 specimen. 



Tholerostola, n. g. 



Head smooth; ocelli absent; tongue apparently obsolete. An- 

 tennae f , in (J serrulate, simple, basal jomt elongate, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint rather thickened and 

 roughened with scales beneath, terminal joint hardly shorter than 

 second, slightly thickened with scales, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 rudimentary. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Fore- 

 wings with 16 long-furcate, 2 from towards angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 

 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings §, trape- 

 zoidal, apex rather produced, acute, termen obtusely emarginate 

 beneath it, cilia 2 ; 2 from f of cell, 3 approximated to 4 at base, 

 4 and 5 connate or closely approximated from angle, transverse 

 vein mostly obsolete except near lower extremity, 6 obsolete,^ 

 represented only by a weak fold parallel to 7. 



Allied to Phthorimaea. 



Tholerostola omphalopa, n. sp. 



(J ?. 6-7 mm. Head whitish, crown more or less speckled with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi white, with two bands of second joint, and 

 basal and median bands of terminal joint of blackish irroration. 

 Thorax whitish irroratcd with dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey, 

 anal tuft of <S grey-whitish. Forewings rather broad-lanceolate; 

 whitish irrorated with dark fuscous or blackish; markings formed 

 by denser blackish irroration or suffusion, undefined, viz. a rather 

 oblique bar from costa at 1 to fold, a broad rather oblique fascia 

 before middle, a broad fascia at f including an ochreous spot in 

 middle, and an apical blotch : cilia pale grey, round apex suffused 

 with whitish and speckled with blackish. Hindwings grey; in ^ 



