224 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



with an irregular dark fuscous band on anterior margin. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, parallel-sided, apex shortly 

 and obtusely pointed ; pale brownish-ochreous, from base to beyond 

 middle crossed by about eight somewhat oblique irregular blackish 

 striae, alternate interspaces mostly suffused mth white; tomal 

 area narrowly suffused with whitish, above which are two very 

 oblique black lines in disc and a blackish mark on costa; apical 

 area with three direct transverse blackish lines, first somewhat 

 irregular : cilia whitish, with basal area pale violet-ochreous limited 

 by a blackish line, towards tornus grey. Hindwings and cilia dark 

 grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in December and April 

 {Parish) ; two specimens. 



Acrocercops xystrota, n. sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head whitish. Palpi long, white, second joint wdth 

 scales roughened at apex beneath. Thorax pale yellow-ochreous. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, short- 

 pointed ; light yellow-ochreous, costal area transversely strigulated 

 with blackish ; five slender parallel somewhat oblique white fasciae 

 edged on costal half with blackish, first at ^, last at f ; a narrow 

 reversed-oblique black streak between fourth and fifth, and a black 

 mark from fifth to apex : cilia pale ochreous, towards tornus grey. 

 Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish); one 

 specimen. 



Acrocercops soritis, n. sp. 



^. 7 mm. Head white. Palpi long, slender, white. Thorax 

 white, patagia fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings very 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; ochreous-fuscous ; markings snow- 

 white, black-margined ; fasciae at j and J, broad on dorsum, each 

 narrowed almost to a point on costa ; a dot on costa at | ; an un- 

 defined dot of mixed whitish and black scales on tornus; a very 

 fine oblique transverse line near apex ; an apical dot : cilia grey, 

 at apex with black basal and median lines, wliite between these. 

 Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



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

 specimen. 



Acrocercops stalagmitis, n. sp. 



?. 9 mm. Head white. Palpi long, slender, white. Thorax 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings very narrow, short-pointed ; 



