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very oblique ; hind wings elongated and ample, crenulated 

 behind. 



We have but one species. 



1. D. obfuscaria, >Sc7w^". — ^Expause 1^ to If inch. Body 

 rather slender, fore wings elongate, pointed, glossy dark 

 grey, discal spot black, subterminal line irregular, white ; 

 hind wings glossy dark grey. Female similar. 



Antennas of the male thick, simple, almost naked, light 

 brown ; palpi extremely short and blunt, grey-brown ; face 

 unusually smooth ; head more rough, both dull grey ; a small 

 ridge on the neck is tinged with brown ; thorax narrow, 

 rather shaggy, grey ; abdomen slender and smooth, hoary- 

 grey ; anal tuft pointed, Fore wings much elongated toward 

 the apex ; costa remarkably straight or almost concave, 

 scarcely arched even at the apex, which is bluntly angulated; 

 hind margin long, oblique, smoothly but very slightly curved ; 

 dorsal margin straight, ciliated ; silky, dark-grey or leaden- 

 grey minutely frosted with white ; first line often obscure, a 

 faint series of darker grey or dull black cloudy spots upon 

 nervures, sometimes joined by very faint cloudy streaks, in 

 which case it is much indented ; second line more noticeable, 

 a cloudy series of thick grey-black crescents, joining blacker 

 spots on the nervures, placed obliquely, and rather gracefully 

 curved ; subterminal line very slender, rippled throughout, 

 or reduced to a series of faint dots, white or greyish-white, 

 edged inwardly with blackish-grey ; discal spot ovate, 

 leaden-black ; cilia grey, mixed with white. Hind wings 

 tolerably ample, quite elongated, crenulated on the i-ounded 

 hind margin ; of the same shade of silk}' dark grey, or leaden- 

 grey ; central spot obscure, rounded, grey-black ; imme- 

 diately beyond, or actually touching it, is a transverse, slender 

 line of grey-black crescents edged outwardly with whitish 

 cloudy dots ; nearer the hind margin is a broader similar 

 stripe, also with external small cloudy white spots ; cilia 

 mixed gi-ey and white. Female a little smaller, with more 



