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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
apex ferruginous, tips whitish. Hindwings 3 and 4 coincident; 
rather dark grey ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal shade. 
Brazil, Guandu, October (F. Hoffmann) ; 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
Allied to involucralis. 
Stenoma involucralis, n. sp. 
$ . 14 mm. Head, thorax whitish-grey. Palpi grey, internally 
whitish. Forewings rather elongate, costa rather strongly arched, 
apex very rounded-obtuse, termeu rounded, vertical; 2 and 3 
stalked, 6 to apex; whitish-grey; costa and termen narrowly 
rather dark grey : from dorsum near base a rather dark grey streak 
parallel to costa to near middle ; a somewhat oblique-transverse 
streak of brown suffusion about middle of disc; plical and second 
discal stigmata moderate, blackish, a blackish dot above and before 
latter, another beneath and beyond, and a few black specks round 
it; an indistinct spot of blackish suffusion on middle of costa ; a 
curved blackish-grey shade from costa at | to tornus : cilia grey. 
Hindwings 3 and 4 coincident; pale grey closely irrorated dark 
grey; cilia grey. 
Brazil, Guandu, November (F. Hoffmann); 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
Allied to liydvaena , 
Stenoma obovata, n. sp. 
5 . 24 mm. Head, thorax brownish mixed whitish, collar and 
shoulders whitish. (Palpi missing.) Forewings moderate, con¬ 
siderably narrowed posteriorly, costa strongly arched anteriorly, 
then nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded; 
2 from near angle, 6 to apex ; brown with faint reddish tinge, 
minutely speckled whitish, towards dorsum also sprinkled dark 
fuscous; costal edge rather dark brown : cilia fuscous mixed 
whitish. Hindwings yellow-whitish ; cilia whitish-yellow, outer 
half white. 
Brazil, Bio Grande do Sul, August ( Stiegelmayr) ; 1 ex. (Vienna 
Mus.) Allied to fastigata , which has the same peculiar form of 
wing. 
Stenoma xylograpta, n. sp. 
<3 J • 17-20 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi grey-w r hitish, 
anteriorly suffused dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations lg. Thorax 
whitish-grey. Forewings moderate, costa rather strongly arched, 
apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique ; 2 from near angle, 
6 to apex; lilac-whitish, sometimes partially irrorated pale grejdsh; 
three ill-defined irregular rather oblique-transverse somewhat 
curved brown lines rising from irregular triangular blackish-grey 
spots beneath yellowish-white costal edge ; a dark grey marginal 
line or series of blackish-grey dots round apical part of costa and 
termen : cilia whitish, tinged grey towards base. Hindwings 3 
and 4 coincident, whitish ; cilia whitish. 
Brazil, Iporanga, Sao Paulo, June ( R . Spitz); 3 ex. (type 
Vienna Mus.) Allied to algosa. 
