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slender, outwardly recurved, upper radial from near its upper end, lower radial and 

 upper median on a footstalk at one-fourth beyond the cell, middle median close to the 

 end, low^er at one-third ; submedian curved, with a short basal looped branch : hind- 

 wing rather long, triangular, apex convex ; cell open ; subcostals at one-half from 

 the base, upper joined to the costal to neai-ly half its length ; lower median at one- 

 half from the base, middle median at one-third, upper median and the radial on a 

 footstalk half-way beyond; submedian and two internal veins straight. Body 

 rather stout ; head with a prominent decumbent tuft ; labial palpi porrect, rostri- 

 form, lanceolate, squamous, extending half beyond the tuft ; third joint half-length 

 of the second ; maxillary palpi short, slender ; antennae smooth, stout at the base ; 

 legs squamous, spurs slender, unequal. 



MELISSOBLAPTES BIPTJNCTANUS. 



Melia hipunctana, Haworth, MS.; Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. fol. 201 (1828). 



Melissoblaptes bipunctanus, Zeller, Isis, 1848, p. 580; Staiuton, Manual, ii. p. 165 (1859) ; Ragonot, 



Ent. Monthly Mag. 1885, p. 21. 

 Tinea Pyr. sociella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Tin. pi. 4, f. 24, j . 

 Galleria Anelln, Ziuk. Sommer, Germ. Mag. Ent. iv. p. 243. 

 Lamoria planali!!, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 88 (1863), j . 

 Acixibasis imbella. Walker, id. xxx. p. 955 (1864), 5. 



Male. Forewnng very pale cinereous ochreous-brown, mottled with minute 

 greyish-white and black scales ; with an indistinctly defined black-scaled orbicular 

 and reniform spot, very indistinct angular transverse antemedial and a more distinct 

 curved discal series of pale-bordered blackish points, and a marginal row of dots : 

 hindwing and abdomen pale brownish-white. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs pale 

 cinereous ochreous-brown. 



Female. Forewing darker cinereous ochreous-brown ; blackish scaled ; the 

 transverse series of blackish points more distinct, and the outer veins also black- 

 speckled. 



Expanse, $ y^ to 1 inch, ? Iru irch. 



Genus RHANGENA. 

 Forewing elongated, rather broad ; costa arched, apex obtuse, exterior margin 

 oblique, posterior margin convex towards the base ; cell two-thirds the length ; first 

 subcostal about one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth 

 from the end and touching the third near its base ; discocellular bent inward in the 

 middle, radials from angle near each end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower 

 at one-third; submedian curved downward from the base: hindwing short, not 

 broader than the forewing ; cell nearly two-thirds the length ; subcostal joined to the 

 costal to half-length of the cell; two subcostals from end of cell; discocellular 



