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lyiug lietwcen straight autemediaa and median parallel dark lines ; the rest as in 

 forewings. 



Underside paler, less dusted, with dark cell-spots and onter dotted line in Loth 

 wings, the forewings with a straight dusky median shade. Face and paljii externally 

 blackish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen with the segmental 

 divisions dark. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



AValker's type was a ? from Veneznela. 



Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE. 

 Phaulostathma gen. nov. 



ForeicinflS : triangular ; costa nearly straight, faintly incurved at middle ; 

 hindmargiu long, obliquely curved. 



Ilindwings : very small ; costa and hindmargiu curved ; all the margins 

 fringed. 



Palpi long, porrect, thickly haired, terminal joint indistinct ; forehead produced 

 below ; antennae of S strongly ciliated. 



Neuratiou as in Tephroclystia. 



Type : Phaulostathma dis/ormata Dogn. (Eupithecia). 



Stenopla gen. nov. 



S Forewings : elongate-triangular ; costa straight ; apex prominent ; hind- 

 margin oblique, curved towards anal angle. 



Ilindivings : narrow, almond-shaped ; apex prominent ; inner margin short 

 and densely fringed ; hindmargiu curved from the somewhat pointed apex. 



Palpi rostriform, porrect, twice as long as head ; antennae broken ; abdomen 

 elongated, with anal tuft strongly developed ; hind tibiae with four spurs. 



Xeuration : forewings, cell three-fifths of wing ; discocellular straight, oblique ; 

 first median at four-fifths, second close before third ; radials normal ; areole simple ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked; lU, 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing with (>, 'J ; hindwings with lower 

 arm of discocellular very oblique, reaching to three-fourths of wing, S anastomosing 

 with 7 for three-fourths of cell ; 0, 7 stalked ; medians as in forewing, all three 

 very short. 



Type : Stenopla virescens sp. nov. 



121. Stenopla virescens sp. nov. 



Forewings : olive-green ; the lines black, sharply angled below costa ; first 

 close to base ; second and third, forming the edges of the central fascia, at one-third 

 and two-thirds ; the space between basal patch and fascia, and the interior itself of 

 fascia, dusted with fine black scales, and with fine but obscure parallel transverse 

 lines ; a darker band with waved edge beyond second line, touching the obli(iue black 

 cell-spot ; snbmargiual line obscure, i)recedcd by dark patches at costa, beyond cell, 

 and above anal angle ; fringe olive-green. 



Ilindwings: greenish grey, with traces of two darker central lines and a 

 cell-spot. 



Underside of both wings greenish ochreous ; the lines indistinct and dull. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen green ; anal segment with a dark spot. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One (? from Santos, Brazil. 



