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G. crescentifasciella — (Cham.) ^ 



I am afraid this specific name may be misleading, as the ftiscia is 

 always indistinct, and in some specimens I have not been able to 

 detect it. 



G. ocJierosiiffusella — (Cham.) 



Possibly G. deimssostrigella may be the same species, I correct the 

 former description by stating that the second joint of the palpi is 

 dusted with white instead of yellow, and the third joint is yellowish 

 dusted with brown. 



OEsEis — Gen. nov. 



Palpi long recurved the second joint with a long tuft projecting 

 downwards, but not forward beyond the apex ; the tuft has almost 

 exactly the outline of an equilateral triangle, the base of which on 

 the joint is perhaps a little shorter than either of the other two sides, 

 one of which is perpendicular from the apex of the second joint. 

 Antenna simple about as long as the body with the basal joint a little 

 elongate, third joint of the palpi as long as the second ; vertex as 

 wide as long face wider than its length. Maxillary palpi small (about 

 as in Gelechia) ; tongue long, scaled. 



The wings are those of Gelechia (some species), from which perhaps 

 this genius should not be separated. The hind wings very faintly 

 emarginate beneath the apex. 



(E. bianuleUa, n. sp. 



Palpi with the tuft blackish at the base of the joint, and along the 

 under edge of the tuft, otherwise white suftused with grayish, on its 

 anterior edge and with a blackish spot at the apex at the tuft ; third 

 joint white a little dusted with brown, and with the apex brown ; an- 

 tennae redish brown ; head and thorax white tinged with ocherous 

 and dusted with brown, and somewhat iridescent, and there is a nar- 

 row dark brown Ime just above the base of the wings. Forewings 

 ocherous and dark brown streaked with white, with the Ijase of the 

 dorsal margin rufous, the basal portion of the costal margin white, 

 tinged with ocherous. The colors on the wing are so intermixed as to 

 make an intelligible description, almost impossible. The scales cov- 



