718 Mr. E. Meyrick on South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 
Mrvia chaleodora, uv. sp. 
Q. 22 mm. Head white. Palpi whitish. Thorax white, with 
blackish spot on each shoulder (dorsum defaced), Abdomen dark 
fuscous, segmental margins white, subbasal segment and anal tuft 
pale yellow-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 
gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique ; 
ochreous-white; markings dark fuscous with leaden-blue reflec- 
tions ; two irregular longitudinal rows of about eight small spots 
each extending from base through disc to apical blotch ; a streak 
along costa from base to a median blotch, which sometimes absorbs 
the two spots of upper series beneath it ; a semioval blotch on 
middle of dorsum, enclosing in its upper portion a purple-coppery 
spot with some white scales ; a purple-coppery apical blotch : cilia 
pale grey, basal third dark purplish-fuscous. Hindwings with 
oblique bar between angle of cell and vein 8; whitish, thinly 
sealed ; apex suffused with grey ; cilia white. 
ARGENTINA, La Plata; two specimens. 
TINEIDAE. 
BRACHYSYMBOLA, 0. g. 
Head loosely rough-haired ; tongue absent. Antennae 4, basal 
joint moderately elongate, scaled. Labial palpi moderate, sub- 
ascending, second joint shortly rough-scaled, terminal joint very 
short, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Femora and tibiae 
all clothed with long fine hairs. Forewings with 2 from towards 
angle, 7 and 8 separate or stalked, 7 to termen, 11 from much before 
middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia }; all veins separate, 
5 and 6 rather approximated, forked parting-vein well defined. 
Brachysymbola sepuleralis, n. sp. 
9. 30-32 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore- 
wings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse- 
pointed, termen almost straight, oblique; white: cilia white. 
Hindwings white, sometimes tinged with grey; cilia white. 
Undersurface of all wings suffused with light grey. 
ARGENTINA, Tucuman; two specimens. 
