280 Mr. Edward Meyrick's Description of 



apical edge white, terminal joint whitish except anterior edge. 

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

 arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique; pale fuscous; 

 a large blackish transverse blotch, edged with whitish, occupying 

 median third of dorsum, upjjer edge projecting furthest posteriorly, 

 where it reaches i across wing ; second discal stigma round, blackish, 

 whitish-edged; an indistinct rather irregular ochreous-whitish 

 line from f of costa to dorsum before tornus, edged with fuscous 

 posteriorly; a series of dark fuscous dots round posterior third of 

 costa and termen : cilia light greyish-ochreous, basal third obscurely 

 barred with fuscous. Hind-wings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in January (Parish) ; two 

 specimens. 



Trichotaphe caustonota, n. sp. 



^. 13 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, hairs of second joint expanded above on apical half, terminal 

 joint shorter, with apical half white except anterior edge. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched anteriorly, faintly 

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

 yellow-ochreous ; costal edge blackish towards base ; a moderate 

 dark fuscous streak along dorsum from base to tornus, somewhat 

 dilated before middle ; a triangular dark fuscous patch extendmg on 

 costa from | to |, and reaching half across wing, edged with silvery- 

 whitish ; a roundish blotch of dark fuscous suffusion before termen 

 beneath apex; some black terminal dots : cilia dark fuscous, on 

 costa ochreous-yellowish. Hind-wings dark fuscous; cilia grey, 

 with dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



British Guiana, Bartica, in January (Parish) ; one 

 specimen. 



Trichotaphe carycina, n. sp. 



(J $. 19-23 mm. Head and thorax dark purplish-fuscous. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, second joint with scales broadly expanded above 

 towards apex and sprinkled with whitish, terminal jomt whitish- 

 ochreous, anterior edge dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Fore -wings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, 

 costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate towards middle, apex obtuse, 

 termen faintly sinuate, little oblique ; light ochreous-brown, strigu- 

 lated or sometimes much suffused with deep ferruginous; base 

 deep ferruginous mixed with dark fuscous ; costa deep ferrugmous 

 from base to near apex; stigmata suffused, ferruginous, plical 

 obliquely before first discal, these two often confluent into a suffused 



