South American Micro-Le'pido'ptera. 237 



Parectopa pselaphotis, n. sp. 



(^ $. 7-8 mm. Head and thorax grey -whitish irrorated with dark 

 grey, face whitish. Palpi moderately long, slender, whitish. Abdo- 

 men grey. Forewings very narrowly lanceolate; grey -whitish, 

 closely irrorated with dark fuscous; very obscure oblique white 

 streaks, anteriorly suffusedly margined with dark fuscous, from 

 dorsum before middle and at f , reaching about half across wing, 

 and a dot on tornus; a blackish longitudinal dash, finely edged 

 above with white, above lower part of termen; a fine elongate 

 black mark in apex : cilia pale greyish, round apex whitish, with 

 two fine lines of blackish points, and a double obliquely projecting 

 blackish apical hook. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia light grey. 



Ecuador, Huigra, 4500 feet, in June {Porish) ; four speci- 

 mens. A very obscurely marked species. 



Parectopa viminea, n. sp. 



1^. 9 mm. Head and thorax white mixed with grey. Palpi long, 

 blackish, second joint with rough projecting hairs towards apex 

 beneath, terminal joint white with black median ring. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, moderately and 

 acutely pointed; dark grey mixed with black; about eleven very 

 oblique irregular fine white streaks from costa, and about ten, 

 anteriorly broader and confluent, from dorsum, suffusedly meeting 

 in disc ; an elongate apical dot of black irroration : cilia grey- 

 whitish, round apex white with two or three lines of blackish points. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Peru, Matucana, 7780 feet, in July (Parish) ; one 

 specimen. 



Gracilaria callichora, n. sp. 



(J $. 8-10 mm. Head prismatic violet-fuscous, face silvery- 

 white. Palpi slender, whitish, second joint irrorated with grey, 

 with apex dark grey, apex of terminal joint blackish. Thorax 

 brassy-yellow, shoulders prismatic-fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, 

 beneath pale yellowish. Middle legs white, femora and tibiae 

 blackish, tarsal joints with apical black dots ; posterior legs whitish- 

 yellowish, basal half and apex of tibiae grey, femora white with 

 apical half blackish. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate; 

 shining brassy -yellow ; a patch of grey suffusion along basal third 

 of costa; a violet-grey patch strigulated with dark violet-fuscous 

 along termen : cilia grey mixed with darker. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



