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grey, apex grey-whitish. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; 

 6 separate; brownish-ochreous or deep yellow-ochreous, costal 

 edge suffused with dark fuscous; an oblique interrupted silvery- 

 white streak near base; three white streaks from costa terminated 

 by silvery-metallic subdorsal spots, first from J, oblique, edged 

 anteriorly with blackish suffusion, second from middle, direct, 

 third from ^, inwardly oblique, second and third connected by a 

 suffused blackish streak in disc, a spot of silvery-white suffusion 

 beneath costa between first and second connected with costa by a 

 white strigula; a white dot on apex, and sometimes two or three 

 on termen : cilia pale greyish, with indistinct blackish median shade 

 and several slender whitish bars. Hindwings slaty-grey ; cilia pale 

 grey. 



Peru, Chosica, 2800 feet, in July [Parish); three 

 specimens. 



Hapalosaris, n, g. 



Head smooth; ocelli absent; tongue developed. Antennae |, 

 in cJ simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 very long, curved, ascending, second joint above in (^ clothed with 

 long fine expansible hairs, in $ with triangularly expanded hair- 

 scales towards apex, beneath smooth-scaled, terminal joint some- 

 what shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimen- 

 tary. Posterior tibiae clothed with long rough hairs above. Fore- 

 wings with 16 furcate, 2 from very near angle, 3 absent, 4 from angle, 

 5 approximated, 7 and 8 out of 6, 7 to costa, 1 1 from middle. Hind- 

 wings f , elongate-trapezoidal, apex acute, termen obliquely bisinuate 

 beneath apex, cilia 3 ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 almost connate from angle, 

 5 approximated, 6 obsolete. 



Allied to Compsosaris, which it closely resembles 

 superficially. Vein 6 of hindwings appears to be truly 

 obsolete (represented by a weak fold parallel to 7), and 

 not coincident with 7. 



Hapalosaris petulans, n. sp. 



($ $. 9-11 mm. Head and thorax ochreous- whitish with a few 

 fuscous specks. Palpi whitish, second joint with three rings of dark 

 fuscous irroration, terminal joint with two black rings. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate -lanceolate; white, irregu- 

 larly irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous, more thinly towards 

 dorsum anteriorly; an oblique blackish bar from costa at ^ to 

 fold ; blackish spots on costa before middle and at f ; a black 



