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Head, thoraxj and abdomen black-speckled green ; dorsum olive-tinged, with 

 black lateral scales ; underside whitish ; forelegs black with pale joints. 

 Expanse of wings : 16 — -18 mm. 



2 is. 



Dissolophodes gen. nov. 



Agrees with Tephrocly&tia in neuration ; the forewing normal; hindwing 

 truncate at vein 2, the anal portion below this vein shortened, slightly contorted 

 but smoothly scaled above, below with dense ridges of hairs along submedian fold 

 and vein 1 ; the abdomen with a similar large lateral tuft on segment 5 ; cell of 

 hindwing above clothed with very long, sparse hairs. 



Type : Dissolophodes curvimacula Warr. {Tephroclystia). 



144. Dissolophodes curvimacula. 

 Tephroclystia curvimacula Warr., Nov Zonl. xiii. p. 129, ? (190G). 



A single <? of this species lately received shows the necessity of this correction. 

 The hindwing of the S is purplish blue, the long hairs of the cell yellowish at 

 base. Underside of both wings deep purple ; the fringe of forewing green with 

 purple flecks; tufts of the hindwing and abdomen deep purple; in other respects 

 like the ?. 



Emmesocoma gen. nov. 



An offshoot of Tephroclystia ; characterised by the cell-spot of forewing being 

 composed of a large tuft of raised scales ; in the hindwing the upper surface is more 

 or less blurred, the scaling and pattern being restricted to the inner margin below 

 cell and vein 2. Antennae of t? thickly and shortly ciliated. Abdomen of c? ending 

 in a point. 



Type : Emmesocoma deviridata spec. nov. 



Ochyria .' unitaeniata Warr., Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 101 (1900) must be placed in 

 this genus ; the type, being worn, failed to show the cell-tuft. 



145. Emmesocoma deviridata spec. nov. 



Very near to E. unitaeniata Warr. (Ochyria'), but without any green tint; outer 

 line not oblique outwards from costa, but vertical, then ontcurved to inner margin, 

 with no pale green baud following it, but a pale brown space before snbmargiual 

 line, with the veins across it ochreous, and an ochreous patch on costa ; the pale 

 blotch above anal angle with two thick white streaks through it. 



Hindwing : with the lines and shades continued across wing, the apex with a 

 large grey cloud. 



Underside of both wings brown, with the lines whitish, and all well marked. 



Head, thorax, anil abdomen red-brown, dusted with dark and light ; underside 

 and legs ochreous, with reddish dusting ; forelegs fuscous, with pale joints. 



Expanse of wings : 21 mm. 



1 <J. 



146. Emmesocoma tenuiscripta spec. nov. 



Forewing : brownish fuscous tinged with greenish ; basal patch and central 

 area paler than the intervening band and marginal area; basal patch limited by 

 an exceedingly fine whitish line oblique from one-sixth of costa to one-fourth of 



