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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
rounded; grey-whitish, with faint greenish tinge ; small dark grey 
spots oil costa at 5 , middle, and |, faint irregular curved lines 
from each hardly perceptibly indicated by grey suffusion, upper 
half of second rather strongly outwards-oblique and marked with 
3 or 4 indistinct darker dots; a faint subterminal line also indi¬ 
cated ; a marginal series of grey dots round apex and termen : 
cilia white. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate ; rather dark grey ; cilia 
grey. 
Brazil, Teffe, December, January ( Parish ); 2 ex. 
Ptilogenes scutellata Meyr. 
This species, of which I have obtained a long series, ranges to 
Brazil and Peru, and varies verv considerably, besides the sexual 
differences; I now recognise that hemiclilora Meyr. must be sunk 
as a synonym. 
Ptilogenes ommatopa, n. sp. 
3 . 26-29 mm. Head whitish-ochreous mixed grey and white. 
Palpi brownish, apex of second joint, and median ring and apex 
of terminal whitish. Thorax brownish, anterior margin, a bar 
behind it, and another behind middle dark brown. Porewings 
dilated, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; light brownish- 
ochreous, irregularly mixed fuscous or grey ; two irregular fuscous 
shades from costa near base and two about reaching about half 
across wing ; plical and second discal stigmata small, black, latter 
placed in a white spot, an indistinct curved dentate-fuscous line 
from a small spot on costa in middle just behind this to dorsum 
beyond middle; a chestnut-brown patch occupying apical third 
of wing, edge nearly straight but somewhat irregular, partially 
streaked black between veins, including above middle a dark 
fuscous blotch rounded and white-edged anteriorly but suffused 
posteriorly, and a curved white line near before apex and termen : 
eilia grey, an interrupted dark grey subbasal shade. Hindwings 
3 and 4 connate; dark grey; cilia light grey, a darker subbasal 
shade. 
Colombia, Bio Siato, 5200 feet, and San Antonio, 6600 feet; 
Bolivia, Andes, 10,000 feet; 4 ex. 
Ptilogenes byssophanes, n. sp. 
<5 $. 16-21 mm. Head dark fuscous, face whitish-fuscous. 
Palpi fuscous, sometimes partially suffused dark fuscous, tips of 
joints sometimes whitish. Thorax dark fuscous, scattered violet- 
whitish specks. Porewings dark fuscous, irregularly and variably 
suffused purplish with violet-whitish specks, terminal third except 
towards costa and dorsum chestnut-brown ; discal stigmata large, 
cloudy, darker; sometimes an irregular white torual blotch; 
terminal edge white, becoming dots towards tornus : cilia purple, 
a whitish-tinged median line, outer half dark fuscous with strong 
blue reflections. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey with darker 
basal shade, round apex suffused dark blue-fuscous. 
Brazil, Teffe, December, January; Peru, Eio_ Hapo, May 
(Parish) ; 7 ex. 
