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VIII. Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 By Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 



[Read April 1st, 1914.] 



The following species all belong to the family Gelechiadae ; 

 they are principally from the low-lying forest regions of 

 British Guiana. The types are in my own collection ; 

 17 genera and 106 species are described as new. 



Aristotelia paterata, n. sp. 



cj $. 9-10 mm. Head light brownish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, 

 second joint with two brownish-ochreous bands, terminal joint longer, 

 with four more or less developed sometimes indistinct dark fuscous 

 bands. Thorax ochreous-brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark grey. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, ajjex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 6 separate; 

 ochreous-brown ; costal edge suffused with dark fuscous; a small 

 basal patch of grey irroration, edge oblique ; two oblique fasciae of 

 grey irroration edged with ochreous-whitish from J and middle of 

 costa, first edged anteriorly with some black scales on upper f, 

 second suffusedly connected with first on dorsum, its anterior edge 

 with a central emargination bearing the black first discal stigma; 

 second discal stigma elongate, black, edged beneath with white, 

 connecting preceding fascia with anterior angle of an inwards-oblique 

 rhomboidal pale ochreous blotch on costa towards apex, followed 

 on costa by a blackish dot; apical and terminal edge marked with 

 several undefined whitish dots separated with some blackish scales : 

 cilia pale ochreous, above apex with a dark fuscous patch, on tornus 

 greyish. Hind-wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica, from December to February 

 {Parish) ; fourteen specimens. This and the two following 

 belong to the group oifungivorella. 



Aristotelia rhodocosma, n. sp. 



$. 10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish sprinkled with dark grey. 

 Palpi thickened with scales, those of second joint somewhat ex- 

 panded at apex above, whitish, second and terminal joints each with 



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