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above this suffused with deep ferruginous : cilia dark gi'ey, basal 

 third irrorated with whitish and spotted with black. Hindwings 

 rather dark bronzy-grey; cilia grey, with dark fuscous basal line. 



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

 specimen. 



Glyphipteryx cestrota, n. sp. 



(J $. 7-8 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 

 with appressed scales, white, second and terminal joints each with 

 two blackish bands. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse-pointed, termen sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; dark 

 fuscous, sometimes posteriorly bronzy-tinged; five slender whitish 

 streaks from costa, anteriorly darker-edged, first from middle 

 oblique, reaching half across wing, second rather less oblique, united 

 at a very obtuse angle with a similar streak from dorsum before 

 tornus, silvery-metallic in disc, last three shorter, direct; two 

 silvery-metallic dots on lower portion of termen, one towards 

 termen above middle, and one on subapical indentation ; a black 

 apical dot : cilia grey-whitish, basal half fuscous or whitish-fuscous 

 limited by a blackish line indented with whitish beneath apex, 

 with projecting blackish hook above apex. Hindwings elongate, 

 tolerably pointed ; dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August {Parish) ; fourteen 

 specimens. Allied to refractella. 



Glyphipteryx syndecta, n. sp. 



(J $. 6-7 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen bronzy -grey. Palpi 

 with loosely appressed scales, white, second joint with two dark 

 fuscous bands, terminal joint with dark fuscous basal band and 

 anterior streak on apical half. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly sinuate, 

 very oblique ; glossy bronzy-grey, more or less suffused with bronzy- 

 ochreous on apical third ; five white wedgeshaped streaks from costa, 

 anteriorly margined with dark fuscous, first from beyond middle, 

 oblique, reaching half across wing, second approximated, silvery- 

 metallic in disc, third short, direct, fourth and fifth short, near apex, 

 approximated ; a narrow slightly curved or almost straight pointed 

 very oblique white streak from middle of dorsum, anteriorly edged 

 with dark fuscous, its apex almost reaching apex of first costal; 

 a fine direct whitish dark-margined streak from dorsum before 

 tornus, almost reaching apex of first costal ; a violet-silvery-metallic 

 dot on tornus, and a minute one on subapical indentation ; two or 

 three fine longitudinal blackish lines are sometimes perceptible in 



