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an expansible pencil of long light greyish-ochreous hairs from 

 costa near base; cilia pale grey. 



Ecuador, Duran, low country, in June (Parish) ; nine 

 specimens. 



Phthorimaea trichinaspis, n. sp. 



cJ $. 9-10 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey-ochreous, more or 

 less sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated 

 with dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint shorter than second, 

 with basal and supramedian bands of dark fuscous or blackish irro- 

 ration. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, in o '^ith broad median dark 

 fuscous band. Forewings elongate -lanceolate ; 6 sometimes out 

 of 7 near base; whitish-grey-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with 

 dark fuscous ; stigmata dark fuscous, obscure, plical slightly before 

 first discal : cilia ochreous-grey- whitish, round apex irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish ; in cj beneath 

 with an elongate-oval patch of long black hairscales below cell, 

 covered by a fringe of very long obliquely directed ochreous hairs 

 from lower median vein. 



Peru, Lima, in August (Parish) ; five specimens. 



Phthorimaea lenta, n. sp. 



^ $. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish irrorated 

 with grey. Palpi whitish, second jouat irrorated with dark fuscous 

 except apex, terminal joint almost as long as second, with basal and 

 supramedian bands of dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; pale grey irrorated with 

 darker, obscurely and irregularly mixed with light ochreous; stig- 

 mata blackish, plical beneath first discal : cilia pale grey, somewhat 

 sprinkled with black. Hindwings light bluish-grey; cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous; in (J with long ochreous-grey-whitish expansible 

 hairpencil from base lying along costa. 



Peru, Lima, in August (Parish) ; eight specimens. 



Phthorimaea perfidiosa, n. sp. 



(J. 10 mm. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with grey. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous except apex, ter- 

 minal joint somewhat shorter than second, with basal and supra- 

 median bands of dark fuscous irroration. Abdomen dark grey, anal 

 tuft oclireous-whitish, claspers very long, clothed with ochreous 

 whitish hairs suffused with yellow internally. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely 



