274 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Description of 



with segments 2 and 3 clothed with modified pale greyish-ochreous 

 hairscales, anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. Fore-wings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather 

 obliquely rounded; greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous; 

 a cloudy dark fuscous dot in disc at j ; stigmata cloudy, dark 

 fuscous, plical rather obliquely before first discal, second discal 

 transverse : cilia fuscous. Hind-wings and cilia grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from December to 

 March (Parish) ; twenty-five specimens. 



Teuchophanes, n. g. 



Head with ajipressed scales; ocelli present; tongue developed. 

 Antennae |, in (J serrulate, shortly ciliated, basal joint elongate, 

 without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint 

 thickened with appressed scales, compressed, terminal joint as long 

 as second, with projecting scales posteriorly except near apex, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 

 tibiae rough-scaled above. Fore-wings with 16 furcate, 2 and 3 

 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. 

 Hind- wings over 1, trapezoidal, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, 

 cilia J ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 closely 

 approximated towards base. 



Teuchophanes leucopleura, n. sp. 



(^ $. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous, face paler, 

 thorax with two fine white stripes from shoulders approximated 

 posteriorly. PaljDi dark bronzy-grey, anterior edge yellow on 

 second joint, whitish on terminal. Abdomen dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen slightly rounded, little oblique ; dark fuscous ; broad orange 

 transverse finely black-edged bands before middle and about |, 

 not reaching dorsum, their lower angles produced into short strigulae, 

 first band rather oblique, its anterior edge white or whitish, second 

 with both sides more or less variably convex or prominent in disc ; 

 space between these occupied by a violet-leaden fascia, reaching 

 dorsum, dilated towards costa ; second band followed by a narrow 

 violet-leaden fascia from | of costa to tornus; beyond this an 

 orange costal spot, whence a very fine orange or grey praemarginal 

 line runs round apex and termen : cilia violet-grey, basal third 

 dark fuscous. Hind-wings dark fuscous; cilia grey, with dark 

 fuscous subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica and Mallali, from December to 

 March {Parish) ; three specimens. 



