South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 677 
towards base, and one in disc before middle: cilia ochreous-white, 
black on bars. Hindwings with 5 from middle of transverse vein, 
6 and 7 nearly approximated towards base ; deep reddish-orange; a 
purple-black apical blotch and four terminal spots below it, first 
connected with apical blotch, second smallest ; cilia orange, on spots 
black, with whitish bars above and below apical blotch and below 
first terminal spot. 
ECUADOR; one specimen, 
Meritastis voluta, n. sp. 
¢. 23mm. Head and thorax light grey. Palpi whitish-grey, 
terminal joint reddish-tinged. Antennal ciliations 1. Abdomen 
whitish-grey. Forewings moderate, posteriorly rather broadly 
dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, 
hardly oblique; light grey ; costal edge reddish, costa beneath this 
dotted with dark fuscous ; markings red-brown, edged and partly 
strigulated with dark reddish-fuscous ; a rounded blotch on dorsum 
towards base, reaching half across wing ; a very large subquadrate 
blotch extending on dorsum from middle to tornus and reaching ? 
across wing, its upper edge angularly excavated in middle; some 
suffusion towards dorsum between these blotches, and two irregular 
elongate marks between them and costa; a slender curved fascia 
from costa before ? to termen above tornus, separated from preceding 
blotch by two whitish strigae with faint reddish interspace: cilia 
whitish, with light grey basal shade. Hindwings grey-whitish, 
towards apex tinged with fuscous-reddish; cilia whitish, round 
apex with greyish subbasal shade. 
CoLomBiA, San Antonio, 5,000 feet, in November; one 
specimen. 
PARAPTILA, n. g. 
Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint with rough projecting 
scales above and beneath, terminal joint short. Thorax with lateral 
erect crest on each patagium and double posterior crest. Forewings 
with 3 from angle, 7 separate, to termen. Hindwings without basal 
pecten, 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Allied to Hulia and Cnephasia. 
Paraptila argocosma, un. sp. 
Q. 24-25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark ferruginous-fuscous, 
Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1911.—PART IV. (JAN.) YY 
