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forming a broad tuft ; terminal joint short, acute. Fore-'wings 

 elongate, variable in breadth, apex produced, hind-margin 

 indented, very oblique. Hind-wings lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, narrower than fore-wings, pointed, cilia about as 

 broad. Abdomen elongate, slender. Legs moderate, smoothly- 

 scaled. Fore- wings with 1 2 separate veins ; secondary cell 

 indicated; 1 simple or furcate at base. Hind- wings with 8 

 veins ; 3 and 4 from posterior angle of cell. 



Nearly allied to Glyphipteryx, but differing in the long tuft 

 on second joint of palpi ; from Apistomorpha it is distinguished 

 by veins 7 and 8 of fore-wings not being stalked. The fore- 

 wings and abdomen are mostly more elongate than in either of 

 these genera. The imagos have the same habit of fanning 

 themselves when at rest, but frequent the shade rather than the 

 sunshine, and are less brilliantly marked. The larvee are at 

 present unknown. The four species described here may be 

 known from one another by the following characteristics : — 



1. Fore-wings with scattered silvery-metallic 



spots . . . . . . . . drosophaes 



2. Fore- wings with central longitudinal white 



streak from base . . . . . . euthybelemna 



3. Fore-wings with white streak from base 



along inner margin . . . . oxymachsera 



4. Fore- wings unicolorous pale grey . . achlyoessa 



Phryg. drosophaes, w. sp. 



^ . 6". Head and thorax dull bronzy-grey. Palpi ochreous- 

 white at base, second joint with a long rough tuft of mixed 

 black and white hairs, terminal joint slender, black, with two 

 white rings. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, 

 apex whitish. Legs dark fuscous, tarsi with white rings at 

 apex of joints, posterior tibiae dull grey, apex white. Fore- 

 wings rather broad, dilated, dull fuscous-grey, with fine 

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