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ciliate. Legs smooth. Fore wings: Apex produced; outer margin 

 sinuous; vein 3 before lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower angle; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked from areole; 10 from areole; 11 from cell. Hind wings: 

 Veins 3 and 4 on short stalk; 5 close to lower angle; 6 and 7 on 

 longer stalk. 



Type of genus. — Mastygophorus epitusalis Walker.^ 



Genus PERIPHRAGE Herrich-Schaffer. 

 Periphrage IlERRicH-ScHAFrEU, Ausser. Eur. Schmett., 1855, p. 69, fig. 396. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved reaching collar; third joint with long hairs 

 on inner side. Antennae pubescent ciliate with hairy tuft beyond 

 middle. Legs smoothly scaled; fore tibiae with process. Fore 

 wings: Outer margin excised below apex, angled at vein 4, then 

 oblique; veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle; 6 from upper angle; areole 

 small; 7 from end, 8, 9, 10 stalked from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: 

 Outer margin produced at vein 4; veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 stalked; 



5 near lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Periphrage larhatula Herrich-Schaffer. 



DRUCUMA, new genus. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved reaching above vertex, slender, shortly 

 fringed in front; third joint more than half the length of second. 

 Antennae pubescent ciliate with tuft of long hair before middle. 

 Fore wings narrow; apex acute; outer margin obliquely rounded; 

 vein 3 before lower angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 a little above angle; 



6 from upper angle; 7 from areole which is extremely small; 8, 9, 10 

 on long stalk from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4, and 

 6 and 7 shortly stalked; 5 above angle. 



Type of genus. — Aristaria? apicata Druce.^ 



Genus MEGACHYTA Grote. 

 Megachyta Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 1873, p. 306. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved; second joint reaching well above vertex, 

 shortly fringed; third joint roughly scaled in front, rough behind 

 less than half the length of second. Antennae pubescent ciliate with 

 small tuft near middle. Legs long and slender. Wings broad. 

 Fore wings: Vein 3 from before lower angle; 4 from lower angle; 

 5 slightly above angle; 6 below upper angle; 7 from areole; 8, 9, 10 

 stalked from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 from lower 

 angle; 5 above angle; 6 and 7 upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Epizeuxis lituralis Hiibner.^ 



iCat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 1S58, p. 150. 



! Biol. Centr. Amer., net., vol. 1, 1891, p. 459, pi. 37, fig. 23. 



« Zutraege, pi. 9, figs. 19, 20. 



