South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 253 



Syncrobyla carphota, n. sp. 



(^ $. 7-8 mm. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-whitish. Abdomen light greyish. Forewings lanceolate, 

 apex somewhat produced; light greyish-ochreous, with scattered 

 dark fuscous scales; costal edge sometimes suffused with dark 

 fuscous irroration ; a more or less developed streak of dark fuscous 

 suffusion or irroration along fold from base throughout, and thence 

 along termen to apex : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, at apex with a 

 dark fuscous basal mark. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from December to 

 March (Parish) ; nine specimens. 



Erechthias zebrina, Butl. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali (Parish) ; com- 

 mon. Unquestionably lanceolata, Wals., and xenica, Meyr., 

 are synonyms of this ; I have it from the West IncQes, 

 Hawaiian Islands, Borneo, India, Ceylon, and the Sey- 

 chelles, doubtless a refuse-feeder and artificially spread. 



TINEIDAE. 

 Acrolophus exigua, n. sp. 



^. 10-17 mm., $ 26-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous 

 sprinkled with whitish, palpi in cj extremely long, recurved, reaching 

 to beyond middle of thorax, clothed with loose rough scales, suffused 

 with fuscous -whitish towards base. Antennae in ^ strongly bipectin- 

 ated, pectinations slender. Abdomen dark fuscous, uncus moderately 

 long, gently curved, slender, branches closely appressed throughout, 

 claspers narrow, somewhat enlarged and slightly rounded at apex. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rather obliquely rounded; all veins separate; grey closely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, with some obscure scattered blackish 

 strigulae : cilia grey mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish) ; five speci- 

 mens. 



Acrolophus halidora, n. sp. 



^. 17-19 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen rather dark fuscous ; 

 uncus long, curved, branches moderately separated throughout, 

 claspers rather narrow towards base, oval-dilated apically. Palpi 

 extremely long, recurved, reaching to beyond middle of thorax, 



