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towards the costa dark-coloured, the inner margin witii an obscure pale 

 blotch; posterior elongate-ovate, pale, with a dark border: Aoi^/y short, 

 slender, with a small tuft at the apex in tiie males, rather obtuse in the 

 females : legs rather short and slender. 



From the insects of the preceding genus the present differs in 

 having the anterior wings long and slender, with a faint notch 

 towards the costa on the hinder margin ; like those insects there is a 

 palish blotch on the inner margin, but unlike them their posterior 

 wings are pale, Avith a dark border, as in some of the insects of the 

 following genus, from which these may be distinguished by having the 

 wings narrower and destitute of a conspicuous pale blotch, as well by 

 having the terminal joint of the palpi concealed, that part being 

 exposed in Pseudotomia. 



Sp. 1. fimbriana. Alis anticis Juscis cinereo-nehulosis, lunula media communi 

 ohsoletissima marginis tenuioris, posticis albidi.i fimbria fusca. (F]xp. Alar. 

 7 lin.) 



To. fimbriana. Haworth.—^. G. dorsana.? Steph. Cafal. ii. 174. A^o. 6915. 



Anterior wings brown, clouded with ashy, with a very obscure ashy lunule in 

 the middle of the inner margin, in which is a very obsolete fuscous streak ; 

 costa marked with minute alternate whitish and black dots ; cilia ashy, 

 clouded with brown : posterior wings whitish-ash, with a brown border. 



The lunule in the middle of the inner margin of the anterior wings is sometimes 

 scarcely visible. 



Very rare : I once found a few specimens in March at Coombe 

 wood, flying in the afternoon. 



Genus CCLXXXIII. — Pseudotomia* 77iihi. 



Palpilonger than the head, porrected horizontally, slightly ascending, densely 

 clothed with scales, which are produced into a triangular mass, of which 

 the extreme joint of the palpi forms the apex ; this joint is scarcely visible 

 before denudation. Antennce short, simple in both sexes, a little thickened 

 and faintly pubescent within in the males: head small, with a crest of scales 

 between the antennae : eyes large, globose : thorax small, not crested : wings 

 entire, deflexed during repose ; anterior rather long, somewhat linear, with 

 a line at the apex of the hinder margin, which gives the appearance of a 

 cleft (see pi. 37, fig. 2), the inner margin frequently with a blotch of pale 



• "^iv^uj fallo, TO fit) sectio. 

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