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slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 

 6 separate; grey or dark grey, suffusedly irrorated or sometimes 

 mostly suffused with whitish ; a short black dash from base above 

 middle, beyond which is a large triangular tuft ; a triangular blackish 

 costal blotch extending from | to f, its apex truncate, reaching half 

 across wing, its margins marked with several small tufts; some pale 

 yellowish suffusion on fold beyond this; a slender black streak 

 running from disc at f to termen beneath apex, area round this 

 suffused with dark fuscous posteriorly : cilia grey sprinkled with 

 whitish, basal third suffusedly barred with dark grey. Hind-wings 

 dark fuscous, lighter and thinly scaled anteriorly; cilia grey, with 

 dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, from December to February 

 (Parish) ; six specimens. 



Chelaria cancellata, n. sp. 



1^ $. 9-12 mm. Head whitish, sometimes sprinkled with pale 

 fuscous. Palpi whitish, irregularly sprinkled or indistinctly banded 

 with dark fuscous, second joint with short rough apical tuft beneath, 

 terminal joint thickened with slightly rough scales. Thorax 

 whitish, irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. 

 Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, faintly sinuate 

 in middle, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; 

 (3 to apex, closely approximated to 8 at base, 7 absent; whitish, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous; four semi-oval dark fuscous costal 

 blotches between base and |, nearly touching on margin, first two 

 with whitish-ochreous tufts adjoining them beneath; a whitish- 

 ochreous tuft on fold beneath second costal blotch; dorsum and 

 disc irregularly blotched with dark grey, with some irregularly 

 grouped blackish scales, viz. three dorsal blotches, one in disc 

 before middle, one beyond this beneath middle, two transversely 

 placed in disc at f, all these ill-defined and tending to coalesce; 

 apical fourth of wing irregularly suffused with dark grey and 

 sprinkled with blackish : cilia grey sprinkled with whitish points. 

 Hind-wings grey, veins suffused with dark grey, in <^ paler and 

 hyaline on basal half ; cilia light grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica, from December to February 

 (Parish) ; ten specimens. 



Anthinora, n. g. 



Head smooth; ocelli absent; tongue developed. Antennae |, 

 in (J simple, basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, in <$ with second joint very 



