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EXOTIC AIICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
Hindwings pale ochreous-rosy, base tinged whitish ; cilia whitish, 
basal half suffused pale rosy. 
Bolivia, Andes ; 2 ex. Allied to comastis. 
Hypercallia comastis Meyr. 
Examples from Colombia, geographically and varietally inter¬ 
mediate, prove that gnorisma Wals. is a synonym of this. 
Psittacastis eiunolybda, n. sp. 
3 . 13 mm. Head shining dark leaden-grey. Palpi greyish, 
second joint suffused golden except towards apex, anterior edge of 
terminal joint dark fuscous. Thorax grey, a bronzy stripe on each 
side of back. Anterior tibiae thickened with dense dark grey hairs 
projecting at apex, barred light bluish-leaden above. Fore wings 
brown ; basal half, except a blotch on base of dorsum, dark 
fuscous, extending on costa to near middle and on dorsum to 
and confluent with a blotch in disc beyond middle; leaden-metallic 
markings as follows, viz. a narrow oblique fascia at |, an oblique 
fasciate streak white on costal edge from costa at t reaching half 
across wing, a blotch narrowed downwards resting on dorsum 
beyond middle, and with an oblique branch from anterior angle 
not quite reaching dorsum, a slender oblique streak from between 
two white strigulae beyond middle of costa, an oval spot in disc 
beyond apex of this, and an oval blotch along lower half of termen; 
a narrow fuscous streak from posterior discal spot to apex, and a 
dark fuscous one along posterior part of costa: cilia fuscous, darker 
on costa, on lower half of termen grey. Hindwings dark fuscous, 
somewhat lighter anteriorly; cilia fuscous, a darker subbasal 
shade. 
Peru, Cocapata, 12,000 feet; 1 ex. 
Psittacastis molybdaspis, n. sp. 
2 . 14 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides ochreous-brown. 
Palpi second joint ochreous-whitish irrorated grey, with grey 
supramedian and apical rings, terminal joint ochreous-brown, tip 
whitish. Thorax fuscous, with lateral ochreous stripe. Forewings 
brown ; a yellow-ochreous blotch on base of costa terminating 
beneath in a very oblique slender projection, and including a short 
oblique brownish streak near its posterior edge ; a slender grey 
median streak, edged whitish beneath, from base to -§-, thence 
continued obliquely downwards but not reaching dorsum ; a very 
oblique rliomboidal blue-leaden blotch from costa 'before middle, 
and an oblique-oval blotch between this and tornus; an orange- 
yellow very oblique wedgeshaped spot from costa beyond middle, 
marked with two white strigulae' on costa, first emitting a blue- 
leaden line terminating in an elongate spot in disc towards termen ; 
an erect leaden mark from tornus preceded by two slight marks of 
white irroration and terminating above in a white dot; a blackish 
longitudinal mark before apex, and some grey suffusion beneath 
