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middle of terminal joint, blackish, base and apex of terminal joint 

 whitish. Thorax whitish-grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdo- 

 men grey. Forewings narrow-lanceolate; grey-whitish coarsely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous; four costal and four dorsal more or 

 less ill-defined white spots or marks, edged with dark fuscous 

 suffusion, first costal beyond ^, somewhat oblique, others sub- 

 triangular, second in middle, third at f , fourth near apex, somewhat 

 inwards-oblique, first dorsal rather oblique, before first costal, 

 others subtriangular or irregularly narrow, second somewhat before 

 second costal, third and fourth before and beyond third costal, 

 sometimes also a dot on termen beneath or connected with fourth 

 costal : cilia grey, towards base whitish, round apex white with 

 two or three blackish lines. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June {Parish) ; twenty- 

 four specimens. 



Parectopa heptametra, n. sp. 



(^ $. 11-12 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi long, with appressed 

 scales, white, anterior edge of terminal joint dark fuscous. Thorax 

 whitish, patagia and a central line dark grey. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, apex rounded-obtuse ; glossy 

 dark violet-grey, mixed with blackish towards costa ; an ochreous- 

 whitish streak along dorsum from base to tornus, narrowly inter- 

 rupted beyond middle, extremity of anterior portion produced 

 into a very oblique wedgeshaped projection ; an elongate ochreous- 

 whitish spot above tornal extremity of this streak; a fine whitish 

 line from costa beyond middle to termen above tornus; six fine 

 oblique whitish streaks from costa between this and apex, reaching 

 about half across wing, terminal area beneath these with indications 

 of suffused whitish longitudinal streaks : cilia grey, above apex 

 with two blackish lines, whitish between these. Hindwings dark 

 grey; cilia grey. 



Colombia, La Crumbre, 6000 feet, in May (Parish) ; two 

 specimens. 



Parectopa trichophysa, n. sp. 



cj. 10-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Palpi long, 

 second joint brownish, with tuft of long projecting hairs beneath, 

 terminal joint whitish with two brownish rings. Abdomen blackish, 

 base and apex pale ochreous. Forewings very narrow, parallel- 

 sided, shortly and obtusely pointed ; wliitish, somewhat sprinkled 

 with fuscous ; basal | with scattered groups of dark fuscous scales ; 

 three irregular curved white marks above dorsum between J and 



