ELA CHISTID2E. 
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lanceolate, somewhat broader than in patriodoxa ; grey irrorated 
blackish ; a rather narrow irregular-edged ochreous-wliite fascia at 
f, obtusely angulated in middle ; a small irregular ochreous-white 
tornal spot, and larger subtriangular costal spot slightly beyond it, 
its apex almost confluent with a small discal spot beyond it : cilia 
grey sprinkled blackish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Canada, Muskoka, August ( Parish ); 1 ex. Allied to preceding. 
Elachista quadrata, n. sp. 
S . 7 mm. Head grey-whitish, extreme scale-edges blackish. 
Palpi white, externally blackish-grey except tips and bases of joints. 
Thorax dark grey speckled white. Abdomen grey, beneath 
whitish. Forewings lanceolate, acute ; blackish, basal area to fascia 
dark grey speckled whitish ; a narrow rather oblique somewhat 
curved white fascia before middle, hardly reaching dorsum ; 
quadrate white spots on tornus and costa almost opposite, separated 
by a rather narrow bar : cilia grey, basal half irrorated black, an 
almost apical line of black points. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Bombay, Surat, December ( R . Maxwell) ; 1 ex. Allied to 
antipetra, but in that species the apical cilia are white. 
Elachista petalistis, n. sp. 
d . 5 mm. Head light glossy grey, crown and thorax dark grey. 
Palpi white, base of terminal joint suffused grey. Forewings 
blackish-grey ; irregular-edged subquadrate white spots forming 
a slightly oblique antemedian fascia narrowly interrupted in middle ; 
a rather small white spot on tornus, and a larger rounded- 
transverse spot on costa obliquely beyond it: cilia grey, base at 
apex finely white within a blackish subbasal line. Hindwings 
dark grey ; cilia grey. 
British Guiana, Bartica, February ( Parish ); 1 ex. The only 
South American species of Elachista hitherto described is albi- 
sqaamella Zell., Hor. Boss, xiii, 447; the two other species 
attributed by Zeller to Elachista in the same paper are not 
Etachistids but Cosmopterygids. 
Elachista stichospora, n. sp. 
B . 7 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax greyish, darker- 
sprinkled. Abodmen grey, beneath whitish -ochreous towards apex 
and on genitalia. Forewings lanceolate ; rather dark grey speckled 
whitish ; cloudy blackish-grey dots transversely placed representing 
plical and first discal stigmata, and several blackish scales in 
a longitudinal series towards apex representing second discal : cilia 
grey, darker towards base, a line of black points before tips round 
apex. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey. 
Assam, Bheeis, May ; 1 ex. 
Elachista vastata, n. sp. 
E . 7 ram. Head, thorax glossy pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi 
ochreous-whitish, second joint grey externally except tip. Antennae 
