216 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



brownish bars. Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; dorsum 

 wliite, folded over beneath, fold clothed inside with long ochreous- 

 yellowish hairs; cilia wliitish-fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal 

 shade. 



Ecuador, Hiiigra, 4500 feet, in January (Parish) ; one 

 specimen. 



Simaethis ophiodesma, n. sp. 



(J. 20-21 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi with appressed scales, light 

 yellowish -grey, white internally. Thorax fuscous, edges of patagia 

 anteriorly suffused with whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings 

 triangular, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate 

 beneath apex, bowed, hardly oblique; fuscous; some whitish 

 irroration at base ; two narrow transverse fasciae of whitish irrora- 

 tion, first about J, hardly curved, second slightly beyond middle, 

 straight, well-defined anteriorly but suffused posteriorly; a third 

 less-developed similar fascia from f of costa to tornus repre- 

 sented only by dorsal half and a spot on costa ; an ochreous-orange 

 S-shaped streak in disc posteriorly, sending a slender streak from 

 its upper curve to costa before apex, thence round apex and termen 

 to tornus, where it almost joins an oblique-longitudinal subdorsal 

 dash, upper half of terminal portion edged anteriorly by a silvery- 

 leaden-metallic line : cilia metallic leaden-grey, with black basal 

 line, on costa fuscous. Hindwings fuscous, darker posteriorly; a 

 longitudinal patch of ochreous-yellow suffusion or irroration in 

 disc above middle ; a slender orange streak along termen throughout ; 

 cilia light grey, towards tips white, with dark fuscous basal and 

 whitish subbasal lines. 



Peru, Contamano, R. Ucuyali, in December, and 

 Chanchamayo, in January {Mounsey) ; two specimens. 



Simaethis brachymorpha, n. sp. 



(^.11 mm. Head brown speckled with dark fuscous, face yellowish- 

 tinged. Palpi ochreous-yellowish sprinkled with fuscous except 

 towards base. Antennal ciliations 3. Thorax and abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen somewhat bowed, little oblique; dark brown mixed with 

 dark fuscous; six indistinct fasciae of whitish irroration, first basal, 

 second at i, third at |, slightly curved, fourth and fifth forming 

 white spots on costa, fourth curved outwards in disc, so as to coalesce 

 with fifth, fifth from J of costa to tornus, sixth terminal, widest at 

 apex, attenuated to just above tornus : cilia fuscous, with dark 

 fuscous basal line, mixed with whitish on costa and on patches 



