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the surface,, the double apical hook on the fore-wings being 

 turned up, so as to present the semblance of four short erect 

 tails round the posterior extremity of the insect. I have only 

 one species, of which the larva is unknown. 



Com. tetracercella, n. sp. 



$ % . 4" b" . Head whitish-ochreous, with a blackish-fuscous 

 spot between antennee. Palpi whitish-ochreous. Antennae in 

 $ dark fuscous above, whitish-ochreous towards base, in ? 

 wholly whitish-ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous, with an 

 irregular blackish central spot. Abdomen dark ochreous-grey, 

 apex pale ochreous. Legs ochreous- whitish, anterior tibife 

 suffused with dark fuscous, middle tibiae with slender oblique 

 dark fuscous central and apical bands, all tarsi suffused with dark 

 fuscous at base of joints. Fore-wings ochreous-white or cream 

 colour, sometimes partially suffused with ochreous ; five oblique 

 streaks from costa and five from inner margin blackish, suffused 

 with ochreous, of variable intensity ; a minute blackish spot on 

 costa at base, sometimes obsolete, and a rather larger one on 

 inner margin at base ; first costal streak near base, generally 

 very short, sometimes suffusedly produced very obliquely to 

 apex of second ; second at \, sometimes broad, very oblicj[ue, 

 reaching half across wing ; third from middle of costa, broadest 

 of all, very oblique, not reaching half across wing ; fourth a 

 little beyond it, slender, bent at apex to meet extremity of third ; 

 fifth close before apex, very oblique, consisting of a few black 

 scales preceded by a rather broad ochreous streak ; first dorsal 

 streak oblique, close to base, reaching middle; second at i, 

 equally oblique, apex produced to meet extremity of second 

 costal ; third broad, in middle, fourth jvist beyond it, both often 

 confluent and blotch-like, reaching half across wing, where their 

 apices are often produced as slender longitudinal lines ; fifth 

 irregular, spot-like, on anal angle ; a strong black apical streak, 

 extending obliquely downwards from apex to disc below 



