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The narrow stems of this plant are much affected by galls, al- 

 though these occur on a solitary plant here and there and are by no 

 means so far as I can see common. 'i1ie galls are not due to the 

 action of any Lepidopteroiis insect but the larvae of this species 

 bores through them and -mine the stems above and below. I first 

 found an empty pupa-case in one of the galls, but it was not without 

 at least an hour's searching that a living larva was at length dis- 

 covered in the stems, and a most exhaustive search produced only two 

 specimens, one of which I was fortunate enough to rear. This year I 

 have freely bred it from stems of Deverra scoparia (collected at 

 Hamraam-es-Salahin) on which there were no galls. The larvae are 

 easily found, owing to the bleached appearance of the broken stems 

 which are closed with a slight web. 



336 : 1.— APONOEA, gn. n. 



('aTTovoia = despair). 



Type, (J ? , Aponoea ohtusipalpis, Wlsm. 

 Antennae (j) shortly biciliate, the basal joint without a pecten. Ocelli 

 absent. Hauxtellum moderate, scaled. Maxillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi 

 projecting the length of the head and thorax in front, laterally compressed, the 

 median joint densely, but not very roughly, clothed above and beneath ; the terminal 

 joint erect, very short, projecting less than half the width of the clothing on the 

 median joint. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, lanceolate, with 

 obtusely rounded apex : Neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, connate with 9, 7 to 

 costa ; 2 and 3 almost connate ; 4 and 5 approximated. Hindwings broader than 

 the forewings, with obtuse and scarcely depressed apex, termen and dorsum evenly 

 rounded, not sinuate ; cilia (i) : Neuration 8 veins ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 3 and 4 

 connate ; 5 approximated to 4 ; discoidal weak, becoming absolete above media. 

 Abdomen moderate. Legs : hind tibiae hairy. 



Allied to Holcophora, Stgr., and Apiletria, Ld., but differing in 

 the structure of the palpi. 



Staudinger and Rebel (Cat. II, 161) erroneously refer Apiletria 

 to the Oecophorinae, omitting to notice that in the hindwings veins 

 6 and 7 are stalked. 



2980 : 1. — Aponoea obtusipalpis, Wlsm. 



Antennae cinereous, spotted with black above. Palpi cinereous, with black 

 dusting, especially on the outer side. Head and Thorax cinereous, minutely dusted 

 with blackish. Forewings cinereous, profusely dusted with black scales, which are 

 somewhat concentrated across the cell at one-third from the base, and indicate a 

 slight lunate spot at the end of the cell and a series of obscure spots along the 

 termen at the base of the pale cinereous cilia, which are also sprinkled along their 

 middle with blackish atoms. Exp. al., 16-21 mm. Hindwings pale rosy grey; 

 cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen ochreous. Legs whitish, sprinkled externally 

 with black atoms and with four narrow black tarsal annulations. 



