248 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Description of 



gently arched, apex obtuse, terinen slightly rounded, rather strongly 

 oblique; light ochreous-brownish, towards apex light ferruginous- 

 ochreous, somewhat mixed with whitish in disc ; costal edge blackish 

 towards base, with a black dot at base; short oblique blackish 

 marks towards costa at ^ and 4, and beneath fold at j; stigmata 

 black, partially edged with whitish, plical and second discal forming 

 oblique marks, plical rather obliquely before first discal, space 

 between stigmata suffused with fuscous; dorsum rather widely 

 suffused with fuscous from base to subterminal line; an elongate 

 gradually dilated wedge-shaped black patch extending along costa 

 from ^ to subterminal line, cut by a fine white oblique strigula from 

 beyond middle of costa ; a fine white subterminal line from f of costa 

 to tornus, acutely angulated in middle, sinuate inwards on lower half, 

 angle interrupted by a short blackish dash projecting from dark 

 suffusion of dorsal half of wing ; some light grey dots round apical 

 part of costa and termen : cilia dark grey finely speckled with 

 whitish, with black basal line. Hind-wings dark fuscous, thinly 

 scaled in disc anteriorly; cilia grey, darker towards base. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March (Parish) ; thirty 

 specimens. 



Battaristis amphiscolia, n. sp. 



(J $. 9-10 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 extreme apical edge of second joint white, terminal joint whitish 

 minutely speckled with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; fuscous, greyer towards costa anteriorly ; 

 plical and second discal stigmata sometimes obscurely indicated; 

 a thick blackish streak along costa from before middle to near apex 

 attenuated anteriorly, cut by a very oblique fine white strigula 

 from beyond middle ; a fine white subterminal line from t of costa 

 to tornus, acutely angulated in middle and nearly reaching termen 

 beneath apex, both portions curved inwards, angle just cut by a 

 fine black dash preceding it; terminal space beyond this irrorated 

 with whitish, apical edge ochreous-whitish : cilia fuscous, with rows 

 of whitish points, on costa dark fuscous. Hind-wings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia grey, with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in February {Parish) ; four 

 specimens. 



Battaristis atelesta, n. sp. 



cJ. 10 mm. Head and thorax dark bronzy-grey. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, extreme apical edge of second joint white, terminal joint 



