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strongly ex|)ressod externally. Read greyisli Tuscoiis above, face yellowish cinereous. 

 Thorax whitish cinereous, with brownish fuscous dusting. Fore-wings narrow, 

 elongate, about four times as long as wide ; bluish white, much dusted with brownish 

 fuscous, especially along the costa and ai-ound the apes ; at tlie base of the costa is 

 a brownish spot, another below tlie costa at about one-third, another below the fold 

 beyond one-third, and between these two an elongate spot on the upper edge of the 

 fold, scarcely farther from the base than the one below it, is diffused outward nearly 

 to a smaller spot at jialf the wing-lengtii, a little below the middle ; beyond this are 

 two spots placed at the upper and lower angles of the cell respectively, a marginal 

 series of similar spots extending around the apex and termen (to the number of 

 three costal, and three terminal, with a faint indication of one tornal) ; cilia whitish 

 cinereous, clouded with brownish grey, especially towards the tornus, and sprinkled 

 along their basal half with brownish fuscous scales. Exp. al., 12 mm. Hind-wings 

 shining sericeous, greyish ; cilia brownish grey, with a slight ochreous tinge along 

 their base. Abdomen greyish, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs yellowish grey ; 

 hind tarsi slightly spotted with greyish fuscous. 



Type, S (84094), Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. : Corsica, Corte, 15, VI, 1899. IJiiique. 



Allied to oxyhiella, Mill., but the arrangement of the spots is 

 quite different ; these form an outwardly angulated oblique line 

 instead of a comparatively straight one, and are quite devoid of the 

 accompaniment of ochreous scales, moreover, the hind-wings are far 

 more shining and more grey. 



2233 (1). 8YMM0CA PEEPYGMiEELLA, S}). H. 

 Antenna stout, simple ; yellowish grey. Palpi dull stone-grey, the median 

 joint shaded nearly to its apex, the terminal joint with a slight shade round its 

 middle. Head and thorax stone-grey, the latter slightly bestrewn with darker scales. 

 Fore-wings stone-grey, thickly bestrewn with pale greyish fuscous scaling ; with five 

 blackish spots (sometimes scarcely distinguishable), one below the costa at one-third 

 from the base, a smaller one below the fold beyond one-third, another a little beyond 

 this above the fold, and two at the upper and lower angle of the cell respectively ; 

 there are also one or two costal and one or two terminal spots before the apex ; cilia 

 stone-greyish. Exp. al., 9 — 10 mm. Hind-wings dull grey ; cilia stone-greyish. 

 Abdomen and legs stone-grey. 



Type, S (84539), Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : CoKSiCA, Punta Parata, 7, VI, 1899. Three specimens. 



This very small species (taken on the wing among Statice and 

 Frankenia at Punta Parata) can at once be distinguished from any 

 other described species by its size. It approaches perhaps most nearly 

 to undecimpunctella , Mn., but the arrangement of the spots, when 

 these are visible, is distinctly different, and the hind-wings are much 

 darker. 



