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shade : cilia light grey, basal half more or less sprinkled with white 

 and black. Hindwings slaty-grey ; cilia grey. 



Peru, Lima, in August {Parish); twenty-seven speci- 

 mens. 



Phthorimaea gregalis, n. sp. 



(^ $. 12-13 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, more or less 

 sprinkled with whitish, face sometimes suffused with whitish. Palpi 

 whitish, second and terminal joints each with basal and supra- 

 median bands of blackish irroration, terminal joint somewhat shorter 

 than second. Abdomen dark grey, apex tinged with ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; dark fuscous, speckled 

 with whitish ; sometimes short brownish-ochreous dashes beneath 

 costa at I and ^ ; stigmata small, black, sometimes edged with brown- 

 ish markings, plical rather obliquely before first discal ; sometimes 

 some obscure brownish marking in disc posteriorly : cilia light grey, 

 basal half sprinkled with black. Hindwings slaty-grey; cilia light 

 ochreous-grey. 



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



Phthorimaea urosema, n. sp. 



cJ. 14 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, crown irrorated with grey. 

 Palpi whitish, second joint with two suffused fuscous bands, terminal 

 joint with two dark fuscous bands. Thorax pale greyish-ochreous, 

 mostly suffusedly irrorated with dark grey. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft ochreous-whitish with a strong black mark on each side above. 

 Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; greyish-ochreous, some- 

 what sprinkled irregularly with dark grey, costa suffused with dark 

 grey irroration; three or four cloudy blackish-grey dots towards 

 base on dorsal half ; an oblique transverse patch of ochreous-whitish 

 suffusion from costa towards base followed on costa by a small 

 blackish spot and in disc by an elongate blotch of blackish suffusion ; 

 stigmata blackish, surrounded by irregular ochreous-whitish suffu- 

 sion, plical obliquely before first discal, a blotch of blackish suffusion 

 in middle of disc lying between and beneath discal stigmata ; costa 

 towards apex with three small ochreous-whitish spots interrupting 

 the dark grey irroration : cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, towards base 

 spotted with dark grey irroration. Hindwings slaty-grey; cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous. 



Peru, Matucana, 7780 feet, in July {Parish); one 

 specimen. 



