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'or its reception, and Professor Zeller, to whom the specimen had been 

 ubmitted, concurred in this view, but it seemed desirable, before doing 

 0, that other specimens of the same species should be obtained. 



Unfortunately, no second specimen has been found, and the first 

 apture still remains unique, but as in von Heinemann's " Schmetter- 

 nge Deutschlands und der Schweiz" there is nothing agreeing with 

 leer Kinker's insect, I have thought it desirable, before describing the 

 isect in the second part of my " Vlinders van Nederland," on which 

 am at present engaged, to give the new genus a more extended 

 ublication by means of the " Tijdschrift voor Entomologie." 



As above mentioned, the peculiar form of the posterior-wings 

 resembling the prow* of a ship) shows that its nearest relations are 

 ith GeJecliia, Zeller, and the allied genera. Then the labial palpi are 

 aort, but distinctly falciform, with the terminal joint pointed, and 

 ith a little tuft of 10—12 diverging hairs at the base ; the maxillary 

 alpi are wanting, the head is smooth. 



Amongst the GelecUdce w hich possess these characters the genera 



Uoricoptera, Chelaria, Cleodora, Tpsolophus, Nothris, HoJcopJiora, 



ipphronia and Megacraspedus, are excluded from our comparison by 



lie labial palpi having a long tuft to the middle joint, or the 



irminal joint with its under-side roughly scaled. It is thus only 



ith the old genus OelecUa that our new species can be compared. 



his extensive genus von Heinemann has split up into several 



, jOaller genera, of which, however, the characters do not appear 



, • me to be laid down with sufficient precision. It would have been 



^tter to have laid more stress on the neuration of the wings and the 



, |>rm of the palpi as foundations for his genera— thus, as regards the 



Buration, the position of veins 3-5 of the posterior-wings, and of 



' —8 of the anterior-wings deserves our attentive consideration. 



Turning to our new species we find that vein 2 of the posterior- 

 ings arises at two-thirds, and vein 3 at four-fifths of the inner margin 

 ' -: the middle cell, and that in the anterior-wings only veins 7 and 8, 

 ^ Wh have a common stalk, terminate in the costa. In these characters 

 , resembles only von Heinemann's genera Foecilia, Ergatis, Argyritis, 

 "" tonochroa, Lamprotes and Borgpliora, but from all these it may be 

 '^ ^stinguished by the extremely short, though pointed, terminal joint 

 i i. the palpi, which is scarcely a third of the length of the middle 

 jj lint, and further by the form of the posterior-wings of which the 

 tj, jnd margin shows under the point in cell I an incision, as though the 

 ,j| |ing would be split as in the Pferoplwri. 



comparison is now rather obsolete, as the prow of a ship is no longer formed as it 



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