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whitish dash beyond this m middle; apical area dark brown, a 

 round black spot restuig on costa near apex, adjoinmg this beneath 

 a large white dot, a blackish praeterminal dot beneath apex with 

 small adjacent white dots above and beneath and two other white 

 dots beneath it, but these four white dots sometimes obsolete : cilia 

 dark ashy-grey, basal and apical dark fuscous shades, at apex rather 

 prominent, beneath tornus whitish. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia 

 grey, a darker subbasal line. 



Brazil, Teffe, in January; five specimens, 



Compsolechia rhombica, n. sp. 



(^. 14 mm. Head light grey, face suffused ochreous-whitish. 

 Palpi second jomt blackish finely ribbed white, terminal white, 

 anteriorly blackish speckled white. Thorax light grey, a black spot 

 at posterior extremity. Forewings elongate, costa almost straight, 

 slightly bent at -|-, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; 

 grey suffused whitish, beyond a line from before middle of costa to 

 J of dorsum ochreous- brown, two whitish spots obliquely placed in 

 disc on division ; a black dot on base of costa ; a thick blackish very 

 oblique curved streak from dorsum near base to disc near middle, 

 apex pointed; costal edge just before subterminal line blackish; 

 a fine whitish line from | of costa to dorsum before tornus, acutely 

 angulated in middle, both halves slightly incurved, angle cut by a 

 fine blackish line from beyond middle of disc to termen; imme- 

 diately beyond this a rhomboidal blackish spot on costa extending 

 nearly to apex; short white praeterminal markings edging a black 

 subapical line, another above this and two below them : cilia 

 brownish, base white withm a dark brov.-n subbasal line, on costa 

 grey, rather promment at apex, on tornus wliitish. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal line. 



Peru, Iquitos, in May; one specimen. Allied to 



hinoiatcUa. 



Compsolechia pungens, n. sp. 



(J$. 16-18 mm. Head, thorax light bronzy-fuscous, face paler. 

 Palpi second joint blackish finely ribbed Avhite, terminal whitish, 

 anteriorly dark fuscous speckled white. Forewings elongate, slightly 

 dilated, costa slightly arched, somewhat bent at f, apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; fuscous, slightly speckled 

 whitish; a very oblique thick streak of dark brown suffusion from 

 dorsum at ^ reaching more than half across wing, limitmg a basal 

 patch of ochieous-browTi suffusion not reaching costa and edged 



