208 Mr. E. Mey rick's Descriptions of 



metallic basal, median, and subapical rings, and white apex. Fore- 

 wings very narrowly lanceolate, apex long-produced, caudate; 

 dark bronzy-fuscous ; a very fine oblique white subcostal line from 

 base to beyond J; short fine white median and subdorsal lines 

 beneath apex of this, widely remote from base and band; costal 

 edge white for a short space before band; a broad orange trans- 

 verse postmedian band, narrowed downwards, margined by entire 

 violet-golden-metallic fasciae, anterior vertical, followed by a black 

 subcostal dot, posterior inwards-oblique, preceded by a few blackish 

 scales; a very fine interrupted silvery-white line in apical fifth, not 

 nearly reaching band : cilia dark fuscous, with white apical dash and 

 white costal spot on posterior margin of band. Hindwings and cilia 

 dark fuscous. 



Colombia, La Crumbre, 6600 feet, in May {Parish) ; 

 one specimen. 



Cosmopteryx nyctiphanes, n. sp. 



(J $. 7-8 mm. Head bronzy-blackish, with fine whitish lines 

 above eyes, face bronzy-whitish. Palpi white lined with black. 

 Antennae blackish, towards base lined with white, with a whitish 

 band at |. Thorax bronzy-black. Abdomen blackish. Posterior 

 tibiae black banded with bluish-silvery-metallic, bristly tufts con- 

 siderably longer than usual. Forewings very narrowly lanceolate, 

 apex long-produced, caudate ; black ; three narrow pale prismatic- 

 violet-golden metallic fasciae, first at J, slightly oblique, tending 

 to be broken up, followed by a fine subdorsal dash, second median, 

 direct, third at |, rather inwards-oblique, forming a white spot on 

 costa, sometimes slightly interrupted in disc; a short violet-silvery- 

 white dash on termen midway between third fascia and apex : cilia 

 dark grey, with a white spot or dash at apex, and a white costal 

 spot on third fascia. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June {Parish); eight 

 specimens. In this species the metaUic margins of the 

 band are in their usual positions, but the band is black 

 just as the ground-colour. 



OECOPHORIDAE. 

 Erysiptila, Meyr. 



Head smooth-scaled, sidetufts roughly spreading; ocelli absent; 

 tongue developed. Antennae J, in o moderately ciliated (1), 

 basal joint moderately elongate, flattened, with thin pecten. Labial 



