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have examples of three species of Tortricodes and four of Gaberasa, including both 
sexes of all but one of them, represented by over 100 specimens. Mr. Warren 
remarks? that all the examples at present known of Tortricodes, Gaberasa, and 
Pteroprista are males; the females, however, have been known for years in some 
collections, including that of the Oxford Museum. He has omitted the allied genus 
Lascoria, Walker, from his family Pteropristide ; it has the wing cleft as in Tortricodes. 
We do not adopt the family name proposed by Mr. Warren for the five male specimens 
in the British Museum (two only of which I have been able to find), because to be 
consistent it would be necessary to make a large number of additional families, 
without having sufficient material for so doing. 
1. Tortricodes pterophoralis. 
Tortricodes pterophoralis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 72, Delt. et Pyral. t. 7. fig. 2 (¢)° 
Walk. Cat. xvi. p. 130°; Warren, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 255. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Chiriqui (Azbbe, in mus. 
Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion).—Ecuapor ; Braz} ?. 
The female is very similar to the male, but is without the tuft of hair on the costal 
margin and the cleft on the outer margin of the primaries. In our region 7. pitero- 
phoralis appears to be a fairly common species, of which the females seem to be more 
numerous than the males. 
2. Tortricodes aon, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 8, 3a, 3; 4,2.) 
Male. Primaries pale brown, the tuft of hair on the costal margin pale yellowish-brown and less dense than in 
T. pterophoralis, the wing crossed from the costal to the inner margin by four fine waved brown lines, 
that nearest the base and joining the costal tuft shaded with very pale brown on the inner side, two small 
dark spots close to the apex (the first smaller than the second), the outer margin cleft as in T. ptero- 
phoralis, but with a semihyaline elongated spot just above the basal end of the cleft between it and the 
costal margin ; secondaries pale dusky brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two very 
faint brown lines; the underside of both wings pale brown irrorated with greyish scales, the fringe pale 
brown: head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and antenne brown; the palpi dark brown, considerably longer 
than in 7’. pterophoralis. The female very similarly marked to the male, but altogether rather paler in 
colour, and differing (as all the females of this group do) in the entire absence of the cleft in the outer 
margin of the primaries. Expanse, ¢ 1,45, 9 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); GuaTEMa.a, Cerro Zunil 4000 
feet, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Pamama, Chiriqui (Arcé, mus. D.; Ribbe, mus. 
Staudinger). 
Closely allied to 7. pterophoralis, from which it may be easily distinguished by its 
larger size and paler colour, and by the semihyaline spot just above the cleft on the 
outer margin of the primaries ; in some specimens, however, this spot is not so distinct 
as it is in others. 
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