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white speckled with blackish, extreme base black. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; dark bronzy-grey; a 

 small blackish spot on base of dorsum; a blackish spot on fold 

 before J ; plical and second discal stigmata black ; a thick blackish 

 streak along costa from | to apex, attenuated anteriorly, cut by 

 a very oblique fine whitish strigula from beyond middle, and by 

 another somewhat less oblique from f , terminating in an undefined 

 patch of whitish irroration near termen : cilia grey sprinkled with 

 white, on termen with a strong white antemedian line, on costa 

 blackish, round apex and termen with two blackish-grey posterior 

 lines separated round costa with whitish. Hind-wings dark fuscous ; 

 cilia grey, darker towards base. 



British Guiana, Mallali, in March {Parish); one 

 specimen. 



Battaristis melanamba, n. sp. 



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

 apical edge of second joint whitish, terminal joint whitish sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa slightly arched, appearing faintly sinuate 

 beyond middle, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; 

 leaden-grey, finely sprinkled with whitish; black dots beneath 

 fold before J and before middle ; costal edge black from base to a 

 minute black strigula at i; two adjacent flattened-triangular black 

 costal patches extending from about ^ to 4, separated by an oblique 

 whitish strigula ; two or three indistinct minute black praemarginal 

 dots near termen : cilia dark ashy-fuscous, with ferruginous-brown 

 basal line, on tornus greyish. Hind-wings dark fuscous; cilia grey, 

 darker towards base. 



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

 specimen. 



Battaristis stereogramma, n. sp. 



• (J $. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax leaden-grey. Palpi dark 

 grey, extreme apical edge of second joint whitish, terminal joint 

 whitish irrorated with grey, extreme base dark grey. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, appearing faintly sinuate beyond middle, apex obtuse, 

 termen rounded, oblique; leaden-grey, sometimes irrorated with 

 white; a blackish spot or very oblique mark on fold about |; a 

 blackish dot in middle of disc ; an oblique whitish strigula from costa 



