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(Abdomen missing.) Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; grey; an oblique streak 

 of brown suffusion from dorsum toA^aids base reaching | across 

 wing; discal and dorsal areas suffused brownish from ^ to near 

 termen, a suffused dark brown streak from disc at J to termen 

 beneath aj^ex, below this a paler area posteriorly, brown streaks on 

 veins 8-1 1 except towards costa : cilia brown. Hindwings dark 

 grey, paler towards base; cilia light brownish, a grey subbasal 

 shade, dorsal cilia forming a long expansible hairpencil. 



Brazil, Teffe, in December; one specimen. Perhaps 

 allied to stasigastra ; if so, the abdomen may be distinctively 

 coloured as in that species. 



Compsolechia stasigastra, n. sp. 



^. 12 mm.; $. 14 mm. Head (^ whitish-ochreous, $ grejnsh- 

 ochrcous, face oclireous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, terminal 

 joint greyish anteriorly. Thorax light ochreous-greyish. Abdomen 

 base light ochreous, segments 2-5 blackish, remainder whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly rounded, somewhat obliqu.e; greyish-oohreous or 

 light fuscous, veins 8-11 obscurely darker-streaked; small dark 

 fuscous almost basal dots in middle and on dorsum ; a very oblique 

 dark fuscous fasciate blotch from dorsum at | reaching more than 

 half across wing ; an ill-defined blotch of fuscous suffusion occupying 

 dorsal half from near beyond this to tornus, darkest posteriorly; 

 a very faint small spot of whitish-ochreous suffusion on costa at | ; 

 very indistinct small marginal dots of dark fuscous suffusion round 

 apex and termen : cilia grey, base within a dark fuscous shade 

 light ochreous. Hindwings ^ grey, $ dark grey ; cilia grey- whitish, 

 a light greyish subbasal shade becoming thickened and blackish on 

 lower part of termen towards tornus. 



Brazil, Obidos, in August; two specimens. 



Compsolechia loxogramma, n. sp. 



(J. 12-13 mm. Head grey, face whitish- mixed. Palpi whitish, 

 second joint with suffused dark grey spot above towards apex, 

 terminal joint nrorated dark grey anteriorly. Thorax grey, some 

 variable small blackish spots anteriorly. Abdomen blackish-grey, 

 a whitish-ochreous praeapical band. Forewings narrow at base, 

 somewhat dilated, costa famtly sinuate, ratlier bent at |, apex 



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