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of the median in this species than in difficilisella. I should certainly 

 have considered them congeneric, but for the absence of the tongue in 

 this species, which likewise has raised tufts upon the fore wings. So close 

 is the resemblance otherwise, and so rare the occurrence of a species 

 allied to Gelechia without a tongue, that I suspected it might have been 

 broken off \ but I could discern no vestige of it, and the adjacent parts 

 were uninjured. Both in this species and in G. difficilisella the terminal 

 joint of the palpi is decidedly shorter than the second, which is scarcely 

 thickened towards the apex. The characters of 0. difficilisella as given 

 ante v. 4, p. 192, will answer for those of this genus, with the changes 

 above suggested. The form of the wings and neuration of Evippe are the 

 same, except that the subcostal vein of the hind wings attains the costal 

 margin before the apex, instead of attaining the apex as in difficilisella, or 

 the dorsal margin as in this genus, and does not send off a branch to the 

 costal margin as in both of the others. In the fore wings difficilisella and 

 this genus send two branches from the discal vein to the posterior margin ; 

 in Evippe there is a single furcate branch which, like the two separate 

 branches in difficilisella, arises about the middle of the discal vein, whilst 

 in this genus they arise close together and to the the median vein. The 

 palpi in Evippe are more elongate and slender, with the scales more 

 appressed, and the terminal joint is if anything a little longer than the 

 second. Eidothea scarcely differs from Evippe as to the palpi and 

 resembles it in ornamentation, but the posterior wings are more excised 

 beneath the tip, and have no discal branch vein, and the discal branch 

 vein of the fore wings is simple and nearer to the median vein. The 

 neuration of Helice is that of Eidothea, except that the costal vein in the 

 hind wings goes to the tip instead of attaining the margin before it, and 

 the wing is even more excised beneath the tip, and in the fore wings there 

 is no discal branch vein, but the apical branch of the median is furcate. 

 The palpi, however, resemble those of G. difficilisella more than those of 

 Eidothea. Agnippe is more distinct, though the neuration of the fore 

 wings only differs from that of Evippe in having only two instead of three 

 subcosto-marginal branches before the end of the cell. It resembles the 

 species described below in the presence of raised tufts on the fore wings, 

 but the position in repose (resting upon the face with the apex of the 

 body elevated) is nearer to that of Argyresthia than Gelechia, and the 

 length of the third joint of the palpi, relative to that of the second joint, 

 is rather greater than in difficilisella, though less than in Evippe, and the 

 form is more robust than that of either of the other sub-genera. 



