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greyish-ochreous irrorated with whitish and dark grey. Abdomen 

 grey, segmental margins and anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Fore- 

 wings narrowly elongate-lanceolate; 6 separate; greyish-ochreous 

 sprinkled with dark grey and whitish, here and there mixed with 

 brownish, costa suffusedly irrorated with blackish-grey, veins 

 posteriorly obscurely irrorated with dark grey; several obscure 

 blackish dots on basal area ; irregular rather oblique transverse bars 

 of blackish suffusion from costa at 1 and S-, reachmg half across wing ; 

 stigmata blackish, plical obliquely before first discal; costal irrora- 

 tion towards apex interrupted by three or four small pale spots : 

 cilia light ochreous-greyish, on basal half mixed with ochreous- 

 whitish and sprinkled with fuscous and black. Hindwings light 

 slaty-grey; cilia light ochreous-grey. 



Peru, Huancayo, 10,650 feet, in July (Parish) ; one 

 specimen. Much like nrosema, but readily distinguished 

 by absence of the characteristic black marks on anal tuft. 



Phthoriraaea loquax, n. sp. 



o $. 9-10 mm. Head and thorax grey, sometimes partially 

 tinged with ochreous, face sometimes whitish. Palpi fuscous 

 sprinkled with whitish, second and terminal joints each with basal and 

 supramedian bands of blackish irroration, terminal joint somewhat 

 shorter than second. Abdomen in (^ dark grey, in $ whitish-grey. 

 Forewuigs elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; dark grey sprinkled with 

 whitish, tinged here and there with ochreous ; a black dot beneath 

 costa near base, and two or three other indistinct ones on basal area ; 

 a small black costal spot before J; sometimes ochreous subcostal 

 dashes before and beyond this ; stigmata moderate or large, ochreous- 

 brownish, sometimes accompanied by a few blackish scales, plical 

 slightly before first discal ; a blackish dot on fold beneath middle of 

 wing ; a small cloudy darker spot on costa at f ; a cloudy darker dot 

 above tornus; a cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion on termen 

 above tornus ; an elongate blackish mark in disc near apex : cilia 

 light grey, basal half sprinkled with whitish and dark grey. Hind- 

 wings slaty-grey ; cilia pale ochreous-greyish, in ^ longer and darker 

 towards basal portion of costa. 



Peru, Chosica, 2800 feet, in July (Parish); thirteen 

 specimens. 



Phthorimaea atrifascis, n. sp. 



cJ $. 9-10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish irrorated with grey. 

 Palpi grey, spruikled with whitish, second and terminal joints each 

 with basal and supramedian bands of blackish irroration, terminal 



