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III. Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 By Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 



[Read Dec. 7, 1921.] 



A FURTHER contribution is here made to the study of the 

 Gelecliiadae of South America, representing a part of the 

 collections made for me on the Amazons by Mr. H. S. Parish, 

 who spent about a year there, journeying from Para as far 

 up as Iquitos and the R. Napo in Peru. He succeeded in 

 obtaining nearly all the species taken by Bates (principally 

 at Ega, now known as TefEe) nearly 70 years ago, and 

 subsequently described by Walker. Four genera and 

 107 species are now described as new. 



Empedaula phanerozona, n. sp. 



cJ$. 11-12 mm. Head whitish-grey-ochreous, sidetufts mixed 

 dark fuscous. Palpi stout, dark fuscous, seven whitish rings, 

 terminal joint strongly tufted posteriorly with light ochreous scales. 

 Thorax ochreous- whitish, shoulders sufhisedly irrorated dark fus- 

 cous. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; ochi-eous- whitish, somewhat 

 sprinkled irregularly light grey ; small dots of blackish irroration at 

 base of costa and dorsum; a transverse bro^\^lish stria irrorated 

 blackish at 1 more or less expressed; a moderate slightly oblique 

 brown fascia before middle, darker posteriorly; minute black dots 

 in disc at middle and | ; costa broadly suffused fuscous on posterior 

 half, some rosy- whitish irroration crossing wing near apex : cilia 

 rosy-whitish, on upper part of termen irregularly mixed dark 

 fuscous irroration, a short blackish subbasal line beneath apex, on 

 costa blackish forming a projecting apical hook and terminated 

 anteriorly by a small whitish-spot, on tornus light greyish. Hind- 

 wings rather dark grey; cilia grey. 



Brazil, Obidos, R. Trombetas, in September; two 

 specimens. I also refer here rJwdocosma Meyr., allied to 

 the above, the palpi being similar but less accentuated; 

 I received a fine example from R. Trombetas. 



Dissoptila crocodora, n. sp. 



(J$. 9-10 mm. Head yellow-whitish. Palpi white, a greyish 

 tinge beneath apex of second joint, a subapical dark fuscous ring on 

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