74 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Descriptions of 



light grey, posteriorly suffused darker grey or sometimes browTiisli- 

 tinged ; a transverse dark fuscous spot crossing fold at J ; a cloudy 

 dark fuscous dot towards costa at J ; stigmata cloudy, dark fuscous, 

 discal ajaprosimated, plical rather obliquely before first discal; 

 a very oblique white strigula from middle of costa, preceded by an 

 elongate dark fuscous mark, a similar mark preceding subterminal 

 line ; a fine white line from f of costa to tornus, obtusely angulated 

 in middle, upper half straight, lower slightly sinuate; a small 

 blackish suboval apical spot and subapical dash, separated by a 

 white dash, above and beneath these marginal spots of white suffu- 

 sion : cilia grey suffusedly mixed whitish, a dark fuscous subbasal 

 line. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Brazil, Manaos, in November ; Peru, Iquitos, in May ; 

 tliree specimens. 



Battaristis coniosema, n. sp. 



^. 9-10 mm. Head, thorax grey, shoulders narrowly white. Palpi 

 dark grey. Forewuigs elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, 

 termen sinuate, oblique; 6 to aj^ex; gi'ey; costal area broadly 

 suffused white on anterior half; a thick black upcurved streak 

 from towards dorsum at \ to disc at f , posterior half edged above by 

 a suffused wliite streak extended nearly to angle of subterminal 

 line, and marked above by a black dot representing second discal 

 stigma; a bronzj^- blackish streak along costa from § to aj^ex, 

 anterioi'ly acute, cut by very oblique fine white lines at middle and 

 I, latter (subterminal line) continued to termen where it forms a 

 very acute angular projection including a black strigula, and thence 

 towards dorsum before tornus but not reaching it; area between 

 costal and discal streaks suffused whitish and tinged broAvn; a 

 dark grey white-speckled suboblique streak from costa at § to 

 projection of subterminal line : cilia grey, above apex two blackish 

 hooks. Hindwings dark fuscous; cUia grey. 



Brazil, Para, July; Peru, Jurimaguas, Iqiiitos, in 

 March ; four specimens. 



Battaristis synocha, n. sp. 



i^$. 8-9 mm. Head, thorax light greyish-cchreous. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint dark ochrcous-grey with blackish ring beneath 

 white apex, base of terminal joint dark fuscous. Forewings elon- 

 gate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- pointed, termen obliquely 

 rounded; light greyish-ochreous, paler towards costa anteriorly; 



