48 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March {Parish); six speci- 

 mens. Nearly allied to epitricha, but forewings rather 

 narrower, yellowish markings clearer and larger, black 

 markings also larger and better defined, hindwings darker, 

 abdomen in (^ without praeapical tufts of hair. 



Stegasta zygotoma, n. sp. 



cj$. 9-11 mm. Head white, often irrorated with dark grey. 

 Palpi white, second joint with ill-defined basal and subapical bands 

 of dark fuscous irroration, terminal joints with two blackish bands. 

 Thorax dark fuscous, slightly whitish-sprinkled, with small ochreous- 

 white posterior spot. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex pomted, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 dark fuscous, sometimes suffused with deep ferruginous-bronze, 

 slightly whitish-sprinkled ; two connected ochreous-white triangular 

 blotches occupying dorsum from near base to near tornus, sometimes 

 much suffused with grey irroration, especially dorsally, first narrowly 

 reaching costa at i, second reaching nearly half across wing, its apex 

 cormected with an indistinct whitish dot on middle of costa by a 

 faint grey or grey-whitish cloud in which is a more or less strongly 

 expressed blackish dot (first discal stigma); second discal stigma 

 close beyond this, blackish, sometimes edged below with white or 

 yellowish, or obsolete; a slightly inwards-oblique transverse white 

 spot on costa at f , tending to cormect with a leaden-grey spot on 

 tornus ; apical area sometimes irrorated with grey-whitish : cilia 

 whitish, with two indistinct lines of blackish irroration. Hindwings 

 grey or light grey, darker posteriorly; cilia grey or grey-whitish. 

 Forewings in J beneath with an expansible pencil of long whitish 

 hairs from beneath base of costa, covered by fringe of projecting 

 scales. 



Colombia, Cali, 500 feet, and La Crumbre, 6600 feet, in 

 May ; Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June ; Peru, Lima, 

 and Chosica, 2800 feet, in August (Parish); forty-four 

 specimens. The Peruvian examples have the white mark- 

 ings' always much more suii"used with grey, ^^•hilst in the 

 others they are nearly clear ochreous-white, but I can find 

 no reliable distinction between them otherwise. 



Gelechia lacticoma, n. sp. 



(J. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders 

 with a suffused dark fuscous spot. Palpi whitish, basal third of 

 second joint dark fuscous, terminal joint as long as second, 

 with blackish subapical band. Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous- 



