236 Mr. E. Mey rick's Descriptions of 



tornus, suffused on dorsum, interspaces filled with dark fuscous irrora- 

 tion ; two very oblique curved white lines from tornus and two very 

 oblique straight white lines from costa before and beyond f , spaces 

 between these irrorated with dark fuscous, forming more or less 

 marked dark streaks; apical area tinged with yellow-ochreous, 

 with a black apical dot, and a small crescentic white mark on costa 

 near before it : cilia grey-whitish, round apex white, vnth two grey 

 lines. Hindwings blackish, apical third suffused with whitish; 

 cilia pale greyisli-yellowish, anterior half of costa with very long 

 fine expansible hairs projected beneath fore^Wngs. Undersurface 

 of forewings blackish from base to |. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August {Parish) ; five speci- 

 mens. The curious and exceptional blackish colouring of 

 hindwings and abdomen are probably (with the expansible 

 hairs) confined to the (^. 



Parectopa dactylota, n. sp. 



(5* $. 10-12 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, somewhat sprinkled 

 with grey. Palpi long, second joint pale ochreous somewhat 

 sprinkled with blackish, with very long projecting tuft beneath, 

 terminal joint rough-scaled below middle, white, with well-marked 

 black median and subapical rings. Thorax ochreous-whitish, 

 patagia mixed with fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings very 

 narrowly lanceolate ; ochreous-grey irrorated with blackish, becom- 

 ing more ochreous towards apex, basal area more or less suffused 

 with whitish-ochreous ; an irregular white subdorsal streak from 

 near base to tornus, upper edge forming three oblique rounded 

 prominences between J and tornus, interspaces filled with blackish ; 

 two very oblique curved whitish lines from tornus to near prae- 

 apical line ; two pale ochreous very oblique lines from costa opposite 

 these ; an oblique slightly curved silvery praeapical line from J of 

 costa to termen ; a white crescentic mark from costa just before 

 apex ; a blackish apical dot : cilia light greyish, round apex white 

 with two dark grey lines, base ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 pale grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June ; Peru, Lima, 500 

 feet, in August {Parish) ; seven specimens. Very like 

 Acrocercops serrigera, to which there may be real relation- 

 ship; less deeply coloured, more ochreous, without the 

 whitish costal streaks, and differing also in colour of head 

 and palpi. 



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