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Sp. 12. perfuscana. Alis anticis nigris nitidis fere immnculufis, cilii.s cinvrco- 

 fuxcis, posiicisjuscescentihns. (Exp. Alar. 6§ — 7 lin.) 



To. perfuscana. Haworth. — N. G. perfuscana. Sleph. Catal. ii. 181. iVo. 7005. 



Anterior wines shining black, nearly immaculate, the disc having a few very 

 indistinct darker markings; posterior wings brown; cilia ashy-brown; 

 antennae slender and reddish. 



I suspect that this is a mere variety of the foregoing. 



Taken in similar places, and at the same time, with the foregoing. 



Genus CCXCIII.— Skuicokis, Treifschke. 



Palpi short, slightly ascending, densely clothed with elongate scales, having 

 the terminal joint exposed, the latter slender and acute : maxilla; short. 

 Antenna; moderate, rather stout, pubescent within in the males, simple in 

 the females: head small, with a short tuft between the antennae: eyes 

 small: thorax xaihev slender, not crested: wings detlexed during repose; 

 anterior broad, slightly rounded on the hinder margin, the disc more or less 

 marked with straight bands, sometimes darker, at others lighter, than the 

 ground colour, and the costa with short oblique streaks towards the apex, 

 which has usually a ring-like spot ; posterior also ample, faintly emar- 

 ginate on the hinder margin : abdomen rather long, with a largish tuft at 

 the apes in the males, stout and obtuse in the females : legs short and 

 rather stout. Females smaller than the males. 



Tliis genus, which requires further subdivision, is distinguished by 

 havino' tlie anterior wincfs rather Inroad, with a straio-ht transverse 

 dark central fascia on a paler ground, accompanied in general by an 

 oblique one near the hinder margin, and some pale geminated spots 

 towards the tip of the costa; the hinder margin is slightly rounded : 

 I applied the name Orthotasnia to it in my Catalogue, in allusion to 

 the fasciae, but that name has been subsequently used for a distinct 

 genus, which, however, was previously characterized and named by 

 Treitschke. 



A. Anterior wings with a dark central spot or straight fascia, the costa with 

 geminated spots: — Celypha, Hdbner. 



Sp. 1. quadrimaculana. Alis anticis pallide cinereo-J'uscis tincturn rnfescenti, 

 viaculis discoideis irregularihus fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 10 lin.) 



To. 4-maculana. Haworth. — Or. 4-maculana. Sieph. Catal. ii. 181. No. 7006. 



Anterior wings pale ashy-brown, with a reddish tinge; with about four 

 fuscous clouds, placed longitudinally, the first small towards the base, the 

 next, somewhat angulated, about the middle, the third towards the hinder 

 margin, united, generally, to a fourth near the anal angle, and with it 



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