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lines of black specks. Hindwings light greyish; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. 



British Guiana, Georgetown, in April (Parish); one 

 specimen. 



Bucculatrix increpata, n. sp. 



^ $. 6-7 mm. Head and eyecaps ochreous-whitish, frontal tuft 

 sometimes centrally suffused with grey, antennae grey-whitish ringed 

 with dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Fore- 

 wings lanceolate ; whitish-grey, more or less densely and suffusedly 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; suffused oblique dark fuscous blotches 

 from costa before and beyond middle, space between these some- 

 times white; a subdorsal blackish tuft between these; a suffused 

 ochreous apical blotch, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous : cilia 

 grey, at apex and on costa whitish, with two well-marked black lines 

 approximated at apex and diverging upwards in costal cilia. Hind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



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

 feet, and Chosica, 2800 feet, in July and August (Parish) ; 

 twenty-four specimens. Varies in intensity of suffusion. 



Bucculatrix instigata, n. sp. 



cJ $. 7-8 mm. Head and eyecaps white, frontal tuft somewhat 

 mixed centrally with fuscous. Thorax whitish sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex somewhat 

 produced; white or whitish, slightly and irregularly speckled with 

 dark fuscous ; a streak of dark fuscous suffusion along fold from base 

 to beyond middle ; thick oblique streaks of dark fuscous suffusion 

 from costa before and beyond middle, and a more oblique one above 

 dorsum between these, disc between these sometimes slightly tinged 

 with yellowish ; a more or less developed longitudinal apical streak 

 of dark fuscous suffusion; all these markings variable in develop- 

 ment and sometimes partially connected with blackish irroration : 

 cilia whitish, round apex and towards termen with black specks, and 

 two short black lines opposite apex. Hindwings light grey; cilia 

 whitish. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, and Chosica, 2800 feet, in July and 

 August (Parish) ; twenty-two specimens. 



Bucculatrix nebulosa, n. sp. 



(^ $. 8-9 mm. Head and eyecaps whitish, frontal tuft somewhat 

 mixed with grey. Thorax whitish speckled with fuscous. Abdomen 



