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on the middle of the costa a large triangular patch, consisting of two shades of umber-brown, with some 
dark fuscous, is preceded and followed by small costal spots of the same; below it towards the dorsum, 
near to the base, are « few raised scales of umber-brown ; the outer third of the wing, except towards 
the costa, is much shaded with umber-brown, mottled, especially along the termen, with dark fuscous ; 
cilia mottled with pale fawn-ochreous and umber-brown, these, and all the darker markings on the wing- 
surface, are very changeable in colour, according to the angle at which the light strikes them. Exp. al. 
16-21 mm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen yellowish brown, with paler 
transverse bars; anal tuft whitish ochreous, streaked with brown. Legs whitish ochreous ; hind tibiae 
speckled, and tarsi banded with umber-brown. 
Type 3 (65630); 2 (65633) Teapa, Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65632, 65634; 6236 
Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tTapasco: Teapa, III-IV. (H. H. 
Smith)—PanaMa: panaMA: La Chorrera, 1.IV—-15.V.1898 (C. H. Dolby-Tyler). 
South America—Frencu Guiana: St. Jean, Rio Maroni (W. Schaus). Nine specimens. 
This species agrees with Psoricoptera gibbosella Z. in neuration [F'W: 12 veins; 
7-8 stalked, to costa; 3-4 truncate. HW: 8 veins; 3-4 separate, truncate; 6-7 
closely approximate towards base], but differs somewhat in the smooth scaling of the 
median joint of the palpi, thus resembling Prostomeus Busck, which however may 
be separated by having HW: 6-7 stalked. 
GELECHIA Hb. 
Type: Tinea rhombella S-D., Hb. Pf. 40-277 (Stph. 1835). 
Gevecuia Hb. Verz. Schm. 415 sp. 4019-23 (1826) ; Stph. Ill. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 422 no. 1217 
sp. 4021 (1835) ; Z. Is. 1889 197-202 no. 28 sp. 1-85 [A. a. 8. Getecura Z, Is. 1839 197- 
200 sp. 6-53] (1839); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 66 Pf. 12° 39, * 41-2 (1853), 157-88 
sp. 397-505 (1854); Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 76, 101-39 no. 8 sp. 1-95 Pf. 4° 5-5", 
9-11-12, 10°12 (1854) : List Br. An. BM. 16 Lp. 65-86 no. 8 sp. 1-95 (1854) ; Wkr. Cat. 
Lp. BM. 29 568-659 no. 14 sp. 1-386 (1864): 80 1018-28 (1864) : 85 1828-31 (1866) ; 
Stn. NH. Tin. 9 1-276 Pl. 1-8 (1865) : 10 1-304 Pl. 9-16 (1867); Hninn. Schm. Deutsch. 
Tin, 188, 193-230 no, 418 sp. 271-832 (1870), Tbl. 5, 81-5 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 
165-6 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 289 no, 194 sp. 1789-1870 (1871) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. 
Lp. Pal. 2 142-51 no. 303 sp. 2537-2768 (1901) ; Z. Hor. Soe. Ent. Ross. 13 335-73 (1877) ; 
Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 429, 619-68, 1087 no. 44 sp. 1-47 (A. GeLecuia 629-42, 1087 
sp. 1-17) Pf. 8° 264,- 267, 11° 388-90 (1882): Tijd. Ent. 27 167-9 Pf. 9-2-3 (1884); 
Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881 261-2 Pf. 12+ 30-1 (1881): 1891 92-4 Pf. 4° 30-1 (1891) : 
Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 519-20, 545 no. 39 sp. 71-9 (1892) : 1896 278 (1896) : 1897 72-7 
no. 14 sp. 39-52 (1897): 1907 937-41 no. 18 sp. 35-40 Pf. 51+ 18-14 (1908) : Ent. Mo. 
Mag. 36 216-8 (1900) : 40 221-8, 265-7 (1904): NH. Sokotra 346-7 Pf. 21-5 (1903): 
Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 197-8 (1907): Fn. Haw. 1 731-3, 744 no. 7°1 sp. 21-1 (1907); 
Meyr: Tr. NZ. Inst. 18:1885 162, 166-70 no. 5 sp. 6-14 (1886) : 39:1906 118-9 (1907) : 
41:1908 12 (1909): Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1901 573-4 (1901): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 
725-6 (1908): Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 308-13 no. 18 sp. 83-90 (1904): Ann. S-Afr. 
Mus. 5 351, 370-1 (1909): Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 12 Pf. 4° 8-9 (1909) ; Chmb. Bull. US. 
GG. Surv. 4 141-8 (1878); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100-3 sp. 5298-5511 (1891); 
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