96 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Descriptions of 



above by a small cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion at base, and 

 an indistinct slender very oblique streak from costa near base to its 

 posterior extremity ; a small obscurely darker spot in middle of disc ; 

 some brown suffusion along median area of costa, terminated by a 

 suffused dark brown spot preceding subterminal line ; a fine whitish 

 line from J of costa to dorsum before tornus, angulated in middle, 

 upper half incurved, lower straight or slightly dentate beneath angle, 

 a short dash projecting from angle towards a short black prae ter- 

 minal dash; apical area light brownish, a thick ochreous- brown 

 marginal streak round posterior part of costa and termen, an oval 

 black spot lying in this above apex : cilia brownish, a dark cchreous- 

 brown subbasal line, extreme base whitish. Hindwings dark grey; 

 cilia grey, a darker subbasal shade. 



Peru, Iquitos and R. Napo, March to May; tliree 

 specimens. Very near incvrva (which I have also from 

 Santarem, Jiirimaguas, and Iquitos), but certainly distinct; 

 in incurva the dark streak from dorsum at -1- is little oblique, 

 the enclosed basal area dark grey, the angle of subterminal 

 line not produced. 



Compsolechia erebodelta, n. sp. 



$. 17 mm. Head fuscous, face pale. Palpi whitish, second joint 

 finely ribbed dark fuscous, basal fourth dark fuscous, terminal joint 

 anteriorly dark fuscous minutely siDeckled whitish. Thorax fuscous, 

 posterior extremity blackish. Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, 

 costa almost straight, bent at |, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely 

 rounded; brownish, slightly speckled whitish; a blackish dot on 

 base of costa; a rather irregular thick blackish transverse streak 

 from dorsum at ^ reaching | across wing; costa suffused dark 

 brown from middle to f ; a fine indistinct ochreous- whitish line 

 from I of costa to dorsum before tornus, angulated in middle, both 

 halves incurved; a subtriangular black sjjot on costa before apex; 

 two small black dots before upper part of termen, connected with 

 subterminal line by very fine ochreous- whitish dashes : cUia whitish- 

 ochreous, a dark brownish antemedian line, outer half rather dark 

 brown on costa and upper part of termen. Hindwings dark grej^; 

 cilia grey, a dark grey subbasal shade. 



Peru, Jurimaguas, in March; one specimen. 



Compsolechia tornoptila, n. sp. 



cJ. 18 mm. Head, thorax brownish- grey, apical half of patagia 

 brownish. Palpi dark grey, terminal joint posteriorly whitish. 



