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NEW GENERA OP AODISTID2E AND PTEUOFHOJUBM. 



BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WxVLSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



TJiefolloiving species ivill shortly he figured lolth slructural drawings 

 in " JS^ovitates Lepidopterologicce .^^ 



(^Continued from page 2] 8). 



STEGANODACTTLA, gen. nov. 

 Type Steganodactyla concursa, Wlsm. 



Antenna! somcwliat stout, simple or slightly pubescent ; basal joint elongate, 

 but scarcely enlarged. 



Maxillary palpi obsolete. 



XaSiaZ^aZ^i projecting the length of the head beyond it; second and apical 

 joints approximately equal, apical joint depressed. 



Haustellum long, slender, naked. 



Head tufted with bifid spatulate scales. 



Fore-ioings undivided ; narrow, elongate, evenly expanding outwards from the 

 base ; apical margin deeply indented below the pointed and falcate apex ; anal angle 

 nearly square but slightly blunted. Neuration, 12 veins ; 1 furcate at base ; 8 and 

 9 from a common stem, 8 to apex ; rest separate. 



Uind-wings undivided ; deeply scalloped below the produced apex and again 

 below the middle of the outer margin ; with long cilia. Neuration, 7 veins ; all 

 separate. 



Abdomen dilated laterally, fringed at the edges and ornamented above. 



Legs, posterior pair with two pairs of long equal spurs, at the base of each spur 

 a fringe of projecting scales. 



This genus agrees in the neuration of the hind-wings with Ag- 

 distis and Ochirotica, to which it is nearly allied ; it differs in the very 

 distinctly excavate margins of the hind-wings, which, unless we are 

 dealing with a separate and parallel line of development, would appear 

 to indicate a retention of some indication of the lines of fissure repre- 

 sented in the true Pterophoridce, the loss of which has also apparently 

 involved the loss of one of the nervules. 



Steganodactyla concursa, sp. nov. 



AntenncB, palpi, and head, pale ochreous. 



Thorax pale ochreous, anterior and posterior margins somcwliat flecked with 

 brownish scales. 



Fore-icings pale ochreous, costal margin narrowly tinged with brownish-fuscous, 

 interrupted with very pale ochreous spots ; beyond the middle a line of scattered 

 brownish-fuscous scales, commencing before the middle, follows the upper edge of the 

 discal cell ; a similar line of scales, both much interrupted, is adjacent to the dorsal 

 margin, and extends slightly upwards at the end of the coll, but is coutiuucd beyond 



