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rather beyond the base of the terminal joints the latter very slender and 

 acute, apparently naked: maxilla rather short. Antennw rather long, 

 slightly pectinated in the males, simple in the females : head clothed with 

 loose imbricated scales, projecting on the front: eyes small; thorax not 

 crested : wings deflexed during repose ; anterior elongate, lanceolate, 

 rounded at the apex, the disc smooth, marked with irregular longitudinal 

 metallic lines, on a yellowish ground; cilia short; posterior ovate-trian- 

 gular ; cilia rather long : body shortish, slender, and with a tuft in the 

 males ; stouter and obtuse in the females. 



The palpi in this genus, as previously referred to, are very con- 

 spicuous, nearly, or quite, equalling the length of the body, and 

 externally resembling those of Enicostoma, but divaricate more con- 

 siderably : unlike the insects of the foregoing genus, the anterior 

 wings are of gay colours, and adorned with metallic streaks ; they are 

 destitute of elevated scales, and the posterior ones are also of a 

 metallic hue, with rather long cilia. 



Sp. 1. GeofFroyella. Alis anticis Jlavescentihus postice aurantiaco-brunneis, 

 argenteo-striatis, maculis duabus ojjpositis triangular ihus snlj)hureis. (Exp. 

 Alar. 8—104 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. Geoffroyella. Linne.— En. Geoffroyella. S(eph. Caial. ii. 199. 

 No. 7241. 



Anterior wings yellowish at the base, and orange-brown at the apex, the disc 

 at the base with two silvery or lead-coloured streaks, united towards the 

 inner margin ; on the costa before the middle is an abbreviated similar 

 streak, and some obscure marks of the same anterior to two conspicuous 

 triangular sulphurous spots, one of which is on the costa, the other opposite 

 to it on the inner margin ; the apex of the wing is of a dark orange-brown, 

 with a metallic hue and the nervures dusky : posterior wings and cilia 

 fuscous : palpi dusky, with the terminal joint white. 



Not uncommon in woods and hedges in the vicinity of London at 

 the end of May and beginning of June : taken also in other parts of 

 the country. 



Genus CCCXXX. — (Ecophora, Latreille. 



Palpi two, longer than the head, curved upward and backwards, slender, 

 rather divaricating, clothed with short scales, the apical joint exposed, very 

 slender and attenuated, as long as the second : maxillce rather long and stout. 

 Antenna rather long, stout at the base, being densely clothed with scales 

 above, and pilose beneath, nearly to the middle, the apex being simple, and 

 the base not very stout in the females : head rather small, clothed with 



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