72 HETEROCERA. 
streak with two black dots below it; a reduplicated brown line runs along the termen at the base of 
the cilia. Exp. al. 9-10 mm. Hindwings and cilia very pale grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs ° 
greyish white, hind tarsi spotted with fuscous. 
Type Q (35722) Mus. Wism. BM. [PTT. (85728, 35725) US. Nat. Mus. | 
Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Seven specimens. 
5. Polyhymno sciurella Wlsm. 
Polyhymno sciurella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 78 sp. 56 (1897) °. 
Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—MeExico: VERA CRUZ: Cordova, V. 1908 
(F. Knab): tasasco : Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies 1_Sr, Tomas’: 22-24, 
IIT. (F. Gudmann, W. von Hedemann) 
SIMONEURA, gen. n. 
(ciués==bent upwards; vevpd=a nerve.) 
Type: Simoneura ophitis Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 29.) 



J. H. Durrant, del, 
16. Simoneura ophitis Wism.  o. 
Antennae 3, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi smooth, recurved, median joint somewhat 
fringed above toward the apex; terminal joint scarcely shorter than median, slender, acute. Mazillary 
Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed, scaled throughout. Ocellt present. Head and Thorax smooth. 
Forewings elongate, the costa straight, apex somewhat abruptly depressed, rounded, dorsum impressed at 
end of vein 1: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident; 6 to costa, distinctly above apex ; 3-4 approximate ; 
2 remote from 8; 5 much nearer 4 than 6; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, only slightly 
sinuate beneath apex, dorsum straight: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 connate; 3-4 connate; 5 cubital, 
upwardly oblique, nearer 6 on termen than on discoidal, which runs obliquely inward to lower media, 
immediately above origin of 3-4; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen moderate, smooth. Legs: hind 
tibiae hairy above. 
Correlated with Untomia Busck, Apopira W1sm., and Cathagesis Wlsm., but differing 
from these and from all American genera of Gelechiadae yet described in FW: 6 
running to the costa, very noticeably above the apex. 
