BY K. .Ml•;^HI^K. 245 



341. //. avida, ii.sp. 



(J. 10 mm. Head, palpi, and tliorax light gi'ey, second joint 

 of palpi vvitli a ilark grey median spot. Forewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, without fold, ai)cx obtuse, termeu faintly 

 sinuate, somewliat ol^licjue; grey irrorated with white, irregularly 

 sprinkled and strigulated with hlackish; costa and dorsum 

 strigulated with wliite and blackish; outer edge of basal patch 

 suifiLsed with dark fuscous, angulated in middle; central fascia 

 formed of dark fuscous suffusion, narrow, oblique, forming a 

 subquadrate blackish spot on dorsum before tornus; margins of 

 ocellus indicated by three or four small leaden-metallic spots; an 

 apical patch of dark fuscous suffusion, extended along termen to 

 near tornus : cilia grey mixed with white, on upper part of 

 termen with a blackish subbasal line. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with darker sul.) basal shade. 



Q.: Cairns (Dodd); in March, one specimen, not in good con- 

 dition. 



55. EucosMA Hb. 



Eucosma Hb., Zutr. Exot. -Schmett. 28(1823) 



type civcuUma, 



Epiblema Hb., Verz. 375(1826) type/oendla. 



Cy(iia Hb., Verz. 375(1826) ty})e aspidiscmia. 



NotocAia Hb., Verz. 380(1826) type ut/dmanninna. 



Thiodiamx, Vevz. 3d I (1826) type ci^rrma. 



Pfedisra Tr., Schmett. Eur. viii., 188(1830) type sohmdrvina. 

 C roc id osij ma ZeW., Is. x., 721(1847) ... type pl> belaud. 



Antennae in o* ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, second 

 joint with dense projecting scales above and beneath, terminal 

 joint short. Thorax without crest. Forewings with 7 sepa- 

 rate, to termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 usually stalked, 

 sometimes connate or coincident, 5 closely approximated at 

 base, 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base. 



A very large genus, but principally developed in Northern 

 temperate regions and Africa. The generic synonyms quoted 

 are only a selection from a very considerable number. 



