no. 1815. SOUTH AMERICAN TINEOID MOTHS— BUSGK. 227 



Family OLETHREUTID.E. 



OLETHREUTES GERDA, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 21. 



Labial palpi dark brown, oclierous on their inner side. Face and 

 head light brown. Thorax dark purplish brown. Forewings deep 

 purplish brown with a large golden yellow terminal patch; basal half 

 nearly black; costal edge and apical part rich brown without the 

 purple tint, which is most prominent on the middle of the wing; along 

 the costal edge is a series of short outwardly directed bluish metallic 

 streaks intervened by small black dots; at the upper end of the cell 

 is a fan-shaped group of thin black lines; in the yellow terminal patch, 

 which is slightly striated transversely with black, is a row of these 

 black dots, followed by a perpendicular bluish metallic streak before 

 the black cilia. Hindwings deep blackish brown. Abdomen blackish 

 brown above, lighter brown on the underside. Legs dark brown. 



Alar expanse. — 24-28 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. Wm. Schaus, 

 collector. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13596, U.S.N.M. 



Co type in British Museum. 



A large species distinguished by its wing form and the very dark 

 hindwings. 



Family TORTRICID.E. 



TORTRIX AURIFERANA, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 38. 



Labial palpi dark oclierous. Antennal strongly biciliate. Face 

 and head dark brown. Thorax golden yellow. Forewings light 

 shining golden yellow with ocherous brown ornamentation, consisting 

 of a broad line from base along basal half of costal edge, thence across 

 the wing obliquely to dorsal edge just before tornus, and thence upward 

 across the wing parallel with terminal edge to costa just before apex. 

 Near base of dorsal edge is a small thin brown line directed toward 

 the middle of the wing. Cilia golden. Hindwing golden white. 

 Abdomen and legs oclierous. 



Alar expanse. — 14-15 mm. 



Habitat.— Castro, Parana, Brazil. Schaus collection. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13597, U.S.N.M. 



Cotype in British Museum. 



Superficially very similar to the common North American Epagoge 

 sulpliuriana Clemens, but, unlike this species, apparently constant in 

 ornamentation. 



