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whitish hairpencil in subdorsa,! groove; cilia grey, a darker basal 

 shade. 



Brazil, TefEe, in December and January ; Peru, Iquitos, 

 March to May ; fourteen specimens. 



Compsolechia volubilis, n. sp. 



i^$. 11 mm. Head grey, face suffused whitish. Palpi second 

 jomt blackish finely ribbed white, terminal white, anteiiorly blackish 

 speckled white. Thorax grey, two black dorsal spots. Forewings 

 elongate, slightly dilated, costa almost straight, rather bent at |, 

 apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; dark grey, more or 

 less nregularly irroratcd whitish; two small black spots towards 

 costa near base, and a black mark above base of dorsum ; an oblique 

 black blotch crossmg fold at | ; stigmata blackish, discal api^roxi- 

 mated, plical rather before first discal; a weU-defined whitish line 

 from f of costa to dorsum before tomus, sinuate inwards on upper 

 half, preceded by broad blackish suffusion on costa and sometimes 

 thi'oughout, or in one specimen by a bro^vnish tinge in disc ; apical 

 area irregularly mixed whitish, towards costa tinged bro"miish, a 

 wedgeshaped black mark restmg on costa near apex, two black 

 dashes reaching margm beneath apex : cilia dark fuscous, a whitish 

 basal luie and tornal patch. Hindwings dark fuscous ; in J" a rather 

 short expansible grey hanpencil lying in a grey-whitish patch in 

 submedian groove ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal shade. 



Peru, E. Napo, in May ; three specimens. The form of 

 subterminal line is characteristic. 



Compsolechia eury gypsa, n. sp. 



(J$. 8-9 mm. Head, thorax grey, face cchi-eous- whitish. Palpi 

 second joint blackish finely ribbed white, terminal white, anteriorly 

 blackish speckled white. Forewings rather narrow, costa almost 

 straight, posteriorly somewhat arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 

 obliquely roimded; 7 absent; grey; a blackish dot towards costa 

 at base; a rounded blacldsh spot on fold at |-; stigmata cloudy, 

 obscurely darker, sometimes with one or two adjacent lateral 

 whitish scales, plical beneath fii'st discal; a strong nregular white 

 line from |- of costa to tomus, preceded by a broad fascia of dark 

 fuscous suffusion, in two specimens line less developed and inter- 

 rupted beneath costa ; beyond this a dark fuscous sti'eak or irregular 

 patch along costa, and thi-ee rather large white praetermmal dots, 

 sometimes absorbed in ochreous-whitish suffusion occupymg apical 



