XXX. Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 
By EK. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 
[Read November 15th, 1911.] 
THE following descriptions are taken from examples in my 
own collection, received from various sources. Nine genera 
and ninety-seven species are described as new. 
CARPOSINIDAE. 
Jarposina maxima, D. sp. 
¢- 35mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, face suffused with 
whitish with a brownish spot on each side, sides of crown whitish- 
suffused. Palpi 2?, brown, towards apex suffused with whitish. 
Antennae dentate, ciliations 2. Thorax whitish-ochreous suffused 
with pale brownish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, 
somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, 
rather oblique; light brownish-ochreous, with scattered minute 
raised white scales, especially on darker markings ; some large tufts 
in dise towards base ; some brownish suffusion along veins in dise 
and towards termen except on a pale ochreous elongate patch ex- 
tending above middle from a scale-tuft on end of cell to termen 
beneath apex ; a very undefined flattened-triangular patch of dark 
fuscous suffusion extending along costa from base to near apex, and 
reaching in middle nearly half across wing: cilia pale ochreous 
barred with brownish. Hindwings grey ; cilia light brownish. 
CoLomsiA, San Antonio, 5,800 feet, in November; one 
specimen. A remarkable new form. 
PHALONIADAE. 
Phalonia vorticata, n. sp. 
Q. 16 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Palpi 23, 
whitish, with a few fuscous specks, Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique; 7 to costa; whitish- 
ochreous, suffused with white towards dorsum anteriorly ; costa 
indistinctly strigulated with grey ; a rhomboidal ochreous blotch 
irrorated with black on middle of dorsum, reaching rather more than 
half across wing; a moderate irregular ochreous terminal fascia, 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1911.—PART IV. (JAN.) 
