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Crypsicrocis gen. nov. 



Like Acrotomodes Warr., but distinguished by the presence, on the underside of 

 the forewing of 6 at base, of a tuft of yellow hairs, as in the genus Lygris in the 

 Hydriomeninae. 



Type : Crypsicrocis marcida spec. nov. 



279. Crypsicrocis marcida spec. nov. 



Forewing: yellow ochreous, tinged with darker in places, and speckled with 

 brown ; lines very obscure ; a curved brownish shade at one-fourth ; a slight 

 ocelloid cell-mark ; outer line from two-thirds of inner margin oblique towards apex, 

 before which it is sharply retracted to costa and marked with red-brown ; an 

 interrupted grey submarginal band followed by dark specks : fringe yellowish. 



Hindwing : with the ochraceous line straight, just before middle; submarginal 

 shade grey on costa, then ochraceous. 



Underside yellow; forewing with a red-brown marginal border speckled with 

 black : hindwing with the edge only of the band, reaching jnst below middle ; tuft 

 at base of forewing yellow. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish ochreous? 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 cj from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., November 1904, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



Dasystole gen. nov. 



Forewing : costa straight ; outer margin obliquely curved, creunlate. 

 Hindwing : with outer margin crenulate. 



Vertex, face, and pectus roughly haired ; shoulders ample ; patagia long, 

 reaching beyond thorax; palpi porrect, hairy beneath, not reaching in front of face, 

 the terminal segment short and smooth; antennae simple, ligulate; tongue and 

 frenulum present. 



Neuration : foiewing, cell longer than half of wing; discocellular vertical; 

 first median nervule at two-thirds, second at seven-eighths ; lower radial from a little 

 above centre of discocellular, upper from upper end of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from 

 bend in subcostal; 10 and 11 free; 11 approximating to but not touching 12; 10 

 anastomosing with S, 9 : hindwing, costal and subcostal approximating near base ; 

 6, 7 from top end of cell ; no radial ; medians as in forewing. Scaling thick and 

 coarse. 



Type : Dasgstolc thoracica Wlk. {Homoptera). 



Akiu to the Australian genus Qastritia Guen., one species of which Walker also 

 described among the Noctuidae as Xylina serrata, misled, no doubt, by the stout 

 build and shaggy scaling. 



Two other species must be transferred to this genus: AzeUna munita Dogn., 

 Ann. S. E. Belg. xliv. p. 233 (1900) and AzeUna albisecta Warr., Nov. Zoo/, xi. 

 p. 5G6 <J (1904). 



280. Dasystole crenulata Bpec. nov. 



Forewing: pale grey, dusted in ? with rather coarse olive-green scales, and 

 sutt'used from base to outer line with a dull pinkish- brown tinge ; first line from one- 

 fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, forming a deep outward curve on each sidu 



