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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
fuscous. Forewings apex obtuse, terraen obliquely rounded; 
white; a small black dot on costa near base; a narrow very 
oblique fuscous fascia from costa towards base, black on costal 
area and with black raised scales or tufts .on posterior edge, which 
is prominent near dorsum; semioval black spots on cost,a at middle 
and |; second discal stigma represented by a small black tuft, 
beneath it a larger dark fuscous tuft, between and beyond these 
some faint brownish suffusion ; five small blackish marginal dots 
round apex, some faint brownish suffusion before these: cilia 
white barred brownish speckling. Hindwings grey; cilia light 
grey. 
Peru, Iquitos, May ( Parish ); 1 ex. 
Stegasta comissata, n. sp. 
3 $ . 8-10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, base 
of second joint and two bands of terminal blackish. Thorax dark 
fuscous, two whitish-ochreous sometimes greyish-tinged spots 
anteriorly. Fore wings blackish-fuscous; a pale ochreous fascia 
at |, broad on dorsum and diminishing to costa, where it is narrow 
and white, somewhat silvery-mixed and sometimes grey-speckled 
on dorsum; a subtriangular pale ochreous sometimes grey- 
sprinkled blotch on median area of dorsum, confluent with preceding 
and connected by a leaden-metallic bar with a white spot on middle 
of costa; a large subquadrate white spot on costa at |, connected 
by a leaden bar with tornus ; a small silvery-whitish dot beneath 
apex : cilia pale grey, basal half sprinkled blackish. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia light grey. 
Brazil, Obidos, Santarem, Parintins, Manaos, August to 
November ( Parish ); 16 ex. 
LOCHARCHA, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed. 
Antennae f, in 3 somewhat stout, simple, basal joint elongate, 
without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint 
with very long rough projecting hair-scales beneath, terminal joint 
as long as second, thickened with rough seales projecting posteriorly, 
acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae clothed with 
hairs above. Fore wings 2-4 near together, parallel, 7 and 8 
stalked, 7 to costa. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, termen faintly 
sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 
nearly approximated towards base. 
Allied to Parastegci. 
Locharcha emicans, n. sp. 
3 . 14 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi second joint 
ochreous-whitish, tuft with a few black hairs, terminal joint pale 
ochreous sprinkled blackish. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia 
