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streak, apparently composed of two or more dark spots, descends obliqiiely 

 outward from the costa, reaching to tlie fold ; scarcely separated from its outer 

 ed^e is another spot on the disc before the middle, and remote from this is 

 another at the end of the cell, the costa being slightly shaded with umber- 

 brown speckling above and before it ; at the apex and along the termen is a 

 shade of profuse umber-brown speckling, extending partially into the brownish 

 grey cilia which become whitish about the apex. Exp. al. 8-11 mm. Hind- 

 ivings pale blue grey ; cilia brownish gTey. Abdomen brownish fuscous, paler 

 at its base and apex. Legs creamy whitish, the tarsi with one or two dark 

 spots. 



Tyjje ? (96483) ; c? (96346) El-Kantara, Mus. Wlsm., b.m. 

 Hah.: Algeria: Biskra, 27.III— 5.IV.1894 {Eaton), 28.11— ll.IV. 

 1903 {Whin.); Haminam-es-Salahin, 5. Ill — 13.1V. 1904, © Anabasis 

 articulata, 10.11, ex. 12.1V.1904 {Whm.) ; El-Kantara, 10-20.V.1903 

 {Wlsm.). Thirty-eiglit specimens. 



HYPONOMEUTIDAE. 

 2751. GALACTICA, gn. n. 



{yaXaKT'-Ko^ = milk-white). 



Type : GrALACTICA CARADJAE, Wlsm. 



Antennae ^, simple ; basal joint with rather fugitive pecten. Labial Palpi 

 very short, projecting ; terminal joint shorter than median. Maxillary Palpi 

 obsolete. Haustellum long, naked. Eyes large. Head small, smooth. Thorax 

 smooth. Forcwings rather short, with slightly rounded costa, obtuse apex and 

 oblique, not sinuate termen : neuration 12 veins ; 7-8 short-stalked, or connate, 

 7 to termen ; 2 from near angle of cell ; 4—5 closely approximate at base, rest 

 separate ; internal radial from between 11 and 10 to between 6 and 7, media 

 from between 5 and 6 to near base ; a costal stigma from 12 to 10. Hindwings 

 1, narrowing outwardly, apex rounded, tornus obsolete ; with a slight, short, 

 fenestrum at base below cell ; cilia A : neuration 8 veins ; 3-4 stalked from the 

 pointed lower extremity of the cell, which thence recedes rapidly to internal 

 radial immediately below 7, leaving 6 mixch shorter than 7 owing to the 

 extreme obliquity of the discoidal ; (j-7 separate, remote. Abdome7i rather 

 stout. Legs -. hind tibiae not hairy. 



Most nearly allied to Galantica. Z., but without the long clothing of 

 the head, and the basal joint of the antennae has only a fugitive 

 pecten instead of a strong tuft ; the palpi also are shorter, and veins 

 p^Y : 7-8 are short- stalked, or connate, not separate ; but Galantica 

 may eventually present some variation in this respect. Scythropia 

 Hb. differs in having the veins of the forewings more evenly separate, 

 and HW : 3-4 are separate, not stalked as in Galantica and Galactica. 

 All three genera agree in the shape of the cell in the hindwings, and 

 in the presence of a costal stigma in the forewings. 



