collected in Chili. 79 



58. Hyperskeles choreutidea, n. s. 



2 . Black-brown ; primaries with a nearly central 

 abbreviated white costal dash, tapering to a point as it 

 reaches the median vein, and tinted with gold upon the 

 costal margin ; a spot of golden ochreons within the 

 cell on each side of the white dash ; a subapical silvery 

 white lunule, followed by a golden ochreous apical 

 border, the commencement of which upon the costa is 

 indicated by a paler golden spot ; two patches of greyish 

 scales on the disc ; fringe tipped with whitish ; secondaries 

 crossed at basal third by an oblique sordid white band ; 

 an abbreviated white central band from the costa to the 

 median vein ; a diffused patch of greyish scales on the 

 disc ; fringe tipped with whitish grey, white at apex ; 

 abdomen crossed by slender greyish lines ; anal segment 

 pearl-white ; wings below as above, but the markings 

 more developed ; primaries with a broad ochreous sub- 

 costal band from the base to the first discoidal spot, with 

 which it unites ; a distinct white spot on the disc beyond 

 the end of the cell ; internal border ash-grey ; secondaries 

 with a broad ochreous costal band and a transverse 

 dash of the same colour between the two white bands ; a 

 white subapical spot ; body below pearly white, the legs 

 pale brownish grey above ; tarsi with white annulations. 

 Expanse of wings, 14 mm. 



" Valdivia, from Reed's collection." — T. E. 



Callistenoma, n. g. 



Allied to Stenoma, but at once distinguished by its 

 palpi, the second joint being broad, compressed, and 

 fringed below (not above, as in the undoubtedly allied 

 genus Anchinia). See PI. XI., fig. 8a. 



59. Callistenoma ustimacida. 



Cryptolechia ustimacula, Zeller, Verhandl. zool.-botan. 



Gesellsch. Wien, xxiv., p. 440, n. 5 ; pi. xii., fig. 



10 (1874). 

 Machimia ustimacida, Zeller, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross., 



xiii., p. 259, n. 23 (1877). 



" Valparaiso, in November." — T. E. 



