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HERMINIA. 
Herminia, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins. iii. p. 418 (1802) ; Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 96. 
Most of the species included in this genus are European or North-American. 
1. Herminia (?) flacillalis, 
Herminia (?) flacillalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 856 '. 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 4). 
Walker’s type is a female; it is the only specimen we have seen. 
MARIMATHA. 
Marimatha, Walker, Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (1865). 
Walker founded this genus upon the female of a species that he had previously 
described under the name of Herminia rhodarialis (the locality for which was not 
known), at the same time including in it two from Honduras, and others from West 
Africa and Southern India. It is very doubtful if they are all congeneric. 
1. Marimatha dinumeratalis. 
Marimatha dinumeratalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (3). 
Hab. Honpuras (Dyson 1), 
This species is only known to us from Walker’s type in the National collection. 
2. Marimatha (?) nigripalpis. 
Marimatha nigripalpis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1204 (¢)’. 
Hab. Honvuras (Dyson !). 
The only specimen of this species we have seen is the type in the British Museum. 
PYRGION, gen. nov. 
Male. Head small; the eyes very prominent; the thorax broad; the tegule long. Abdomen long and slender, 
extending quite one third of its length beyond the wings. Antenne about half the length of the 
primaries, slender, and very slightly pectinated. Palpi large, curved back over the head and thorax, 
densely clothed with hair, and thickly tufted on the third joint. Legs long and slender, the fore pair 
clothed with hairs. The primaries broad, excepting at the base; the costal margin straight from the 
apex almost to the base, where it is rather sharply curved ; the apex pointed; the outer margin nearly 
straight, but slightly rounded at the anal angle; the inner margin. straight; on the underside the costal 
margin from the base to beyond the middle is thickly tufted with hairs, which curve inwards, the tufts 
being much thicker in some specimens than in others. The secondaries large ; the costal margin straight ; 
outer margin much rounded from the apex to the anal angle; the inner margin short, and clothed with 
rather long hairs. . 
Type Bleptina menippusalis, Walk. 
Walker described the female only of B. menippusalis; the male at once shows that 
it belongs to a very distinct genus from Bleptina. 
