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ochreous, tips of scales fuscous; two narrow liardly outwards- 

 curved silvery-white fasciae beyond J and at |, edged posteriorly 

 with black, slightly nearer base on dorsum than on costa ; a similar 

 moderately inwards-curved fascia at J; a short inwardly-oblique 

 white strigula from costa near apex, edged posteriorly with black : 

 cilia light greyish, round apex and upper part of termen with basal 

 third bronzy-golden-ochreous limited by some blackish-grey points. 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August (Parish) ; one specimen. 



Lithocolletis iriphanes, n. sp. 



(J $. 6 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-orange, frontal tuft mixed 

 with whitish. Palpi whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings 

 lanceolate ; shining bronzy-orange ; markings pale violet-golden, 

 edged posteriorly with black; narrow hardly curved nearly direct 

 transverse fasciae at J and beyond middle, second often followed 

 in disc by a spot of blackish irroration; small direct transverse 

 wedgeshaped exactly opposite costal and terminal spots at J, more 

 or less margined anteriorly also with black ; a similar spot at apex 

 extending into costal cilia : cilia pale bronzy-greyish, basal third 

 bronzy-orange. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August (Parish) ; twelve speci- 

 mens. Allied to desmodiella, but considerably larger and 

 less deeply coloured. 



Lithocolletis epispila, n. sp. 



$. 6-7 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-whitish. Thorax ochreous. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; bronzy-ochreous, apex of 

 scales infuscated; narrow silvery-white transverse fasciae beyond 

 I and at |, obtusely angulated above middle, margined posteriorly 

 with some black scales ; a similar fascia at |, more or less interrupted 

 in disc; a silvery-white spot in disc beyond this, edged beneath 

 with black ; a silvery-white apical spot, edged on termen with black 

 irroration : cilia pale greyish, with scattered black scales round 

 apex. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June (Parish) ; two 

 specimens. Allied to clerotoma. 



Phrixosceles paragrapta, n. sp. 



(J $. 9 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, neck with some dark fuscous 

 scales. Palpi whitish, with apical band of second joint and median 

 band of terminal joint dark fuscous. Thorax ochreous-white. 



