250 Mr, E. Mey rick's Descriptions of 



whitish. Forewings lanceolate, apex rather produced ; whitish or 

 ochreous-white, variably speckled with minute dark fuscous specks 

 suffused with pale ochreous, tending to form undefined blotches on 

 costa before and bej'ond middle, on dorsum between these, and at 

 apex, but these are often faint or nearly obsolete : cilia ochreous 

 white, round apex with some black specks. Hindwings light grey ; 

 cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Peru, Lima, 500 feet, in August {Parish) ; fourteen 

 specimens. 



Bucculatrix hypsiphila, n. sp. 



(J. 7 mm. Head whitish, central hairs of frontal tuft blackish -grey. 

 Antennae blackish-grey, eyecaps whitish. Thorax and abdomen 

 grey. Forewings lanceolate, apex very slenderly and acutely 

 caudate; ochreous-yellow ; a narrow dark grey streak sprinkled 

 with blackish along costa throughout ; a grey streak sprinkled with 

 blackish along dorsum from near base to beyond tornus, widest 

 opposite tornus : cilia grey-whitish, round apex sprinkled with black. 

 Hindwings and cilia pale grey. 



Peru, Oroya, 12,200 feet, in July {Parish) ; one specimen. 



Bucculatrix tanymorpha, n. sp. 



$. 10 mm. Head oclireous-whitisli sprinkled with light grey, 

 frontal tuft whitish centrally suffused with dark fuscous. Thorax 

 greyish-ochreous sprinkled with grey. ForeAvings narrow-lanceo- 

 late, apex somewhat produced; greyish-ochreous sprinkled wath 

 grey ; two indistinct short slender very oblique streaks of dark fus- 

 cous irroration from costa before and beyond middle, hardly reaching 

 J across wing ; a subdorsal tuft of scales irrorated with blackish 

 between these ; a dot of blackish irroration in disc beyond |, whence 

 a row of a few blackish specks runs to apex : cilia light grejnsh, on 

 costa and round apex ochreous-whitish, towards base with some dark 

 fuscous specks, opposite apex with two very short black lines. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey. 



Peru, Huancayo, 10,650 feet, in July {Parish) ; one 

 specimen. A large species, but with unusually narrow 

 forewings. On each side of base of tongue is a very minute 

 and slender filament, no larger than a single scale, which 

 appears to be a rudiment of the labial palpus. 



Philomone euryarga, n. sp. 



$. 6 mm. He<ad, antennae, and eyecaps yellow-ochreous. Thorax 

 snow-white, posteriorly ochreous-yellowish. Abdomen pale ochre- 



