38 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



subcostal dot at ^i stigmata black, sometimes ringed with white, 

 plical rather obliquely before first discal, an additional dot between 

 second discal and dorsum ; a small blackish spot on dorsum before 

 tomus ; three blackish dots on costa towards apex, apical area 

 darker-suffused : cilia pale grey, round apex sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings light grey, in ,$ thinly scaled and whitish- 

 tinged anteriorly; cilia grey-whitish, in o whitish-ochreous on lower 

 part of termen and dorsum ; in q a long fine pale ochreous-yellowish 

 hairpencil from base of wing lying along abdomen. 



Colombia, La Crumbre, 6600 feet, in May; Ecuador, 

 Huigra, 4500 feet, in June; Peru, Chosica, 2800 feet, in 

 July (Parish) ; twenty-six specimens. 



Recurvaria xanthotricha, n. sp. 



cj ?. 8-9 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides of crown with some 

 dark fuscous specks. Palpi whitish, second joint with basal half 

 irrorated with dark fuscous and a blackish subapical ring, terminal 

 joint with two black rings. Thorax whitish irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft of (^ pale ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen 

 slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; whitish, irregularly irro- 

 rated with grey and dark fuscous ; markings suffused, blackish, more 

 or less confused with the dark irroration ; a spot on base of costa ; 

 a curved oblique series of three spots (costal, plical, dorsal) towards 

 base, followed by a more or less developed narrow white fascia; a 

 subcostal dot at J, spots on costa at ? and f ; stigmata represented 

 by cloudy dots, plical slightly beyond first discal ; a spot on tomus ; 

 sometimes an irregular angulated fine whitish transverse line is 

 traceable beyond this : cilia whitish-grey, sprinkled with dark fus- 

 cous or black except towards tomus. Hindwings and cilia pale 

 greyish ; costa in (J rolled on anterior portion, with long expansible 

 yellow-ochreous hairpencil from base. 



Peru, Chosica, 2800 feet, and Lima, in July and August 

 (Parish) ; twenty-four specimens. 



Recurvaria thiodes, n. sp. 



(^. 10 mm. Head pale yellow. Palpi whitish-yellow, second joint 

 with black subapical ring, terminal joint with base and supramedian 

 band black. Antennae dark grey. Thorax pale yellow, with two 

 minute black marginal dots posteriorly. Abdomen grey- whitish, 

 anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; pale 

 sulphur-yellow, slightly speckled with fulvous; an elongate black 



