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apex slightly darker and purplish-tinged : cilia dark grej'. Hind- 

 -wings almost 1, dark fuscous; 4 and 5 connate or stalked; cilia 

 dark grey, 



Asia Minor, Alma Dagh ; five specimens. In general appearance 

 most like obscurella, but darker and shorter-winged, and differing 

 in ventral markings of abdomen. 



Scythris balanophora, n. sp. 



d" 2 • 13-14 mm. Head, antenna3, and thorax dark bronzy- 

 fuscous, inner edge of patagia with a whitish streak. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, slightly whitish-sprinkled. Abdomen dark fuscous, in $ 

 with two penultimate segments white at base above (when ex- 

 posed), beneath in cS whitish-sprinkled posteriorly, in $ with two 

 penultimate segments ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate- 

 lanceolate ; dark fuscous ; a narrow white streak along fold from 

 base to middle ; a small elongate-oval white spot in disc at j, and 

 another at apex: cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings with 4 and 5 

 separate ; blackish, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia dark fuscous. 



Asia Minor, Alma Dagh ; three specimens. Allied to kiiochella. 



Scythris triochrias, n. sp. 



2 . 14 mm. Head fuscous, margins pale ochreous. Palpi light 

 fuscous, suffused with whitish-ochreous towards base. Antennae 

 dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous, somewhat mixed with pale ochreous. 

 Abdomen blue-black, segmental margins broadly whitish-ochreous, 

 apex ochreous yellow, lower surface wholly whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, pointed ; rather dark fuscous, slightly 

 purplish-tinged, irregularly mixed throughout with elongate pale 

 ochreous scales ; a moderate pale ochreous streak along fold from 

 base to beyond middle, a suffused spot in disc at |, and a larger 

 suffused spot at apex : cilia fuscous, becoming paler towards tips 

 and dark fuscous towards tornus, base pale ochreous. Hindwings 

 I, blackish, thinly scaled towards base in middle, disc mixed with 

 white ; cilia dark fuscous. 



Asia Minor, Taurus Mts. ; one specimen, 



J Scythris fluvialis, n. sp. 



c? 2 • 12-13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, 

 Antenual ciliations of c? ^. Abdomen bronzy-fuscous, beneath in 

 J suffused with pale ochreous, in $ white except anal segment, 

 Forewings lanceolate; dark violet-fuscous, towards costa and dorsum 

 suffused with grey ; a thick suifused ochreous-whitish streak from 

 base of dorsum, curved upwards to above middle and returning to 

 fold before middle of wing, where it joins an ochreous -tinged patch 

 extending along dorsum to tornus ; a thick ochreous-whitish streak 

 from i of costa to fold parallel to tcrmen, with a projection on 

 posterior edge iu middle, tending to connect with a whitish mark 

 on termen above tornus ; some ochreous tinge towards termeu 

 above this ; in (S specimen an ochreous-whitish mark at apex : 



