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middle, and narrower one across posterior margin. AlKlomen dark 

 fasfous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly diluted, costa sliiilitly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, hardly oblique ; light 

 ochreous-groy finely irrorated with white points ; costa slenderly 

 blackish marked with pairs of oblique whitish strigul(e, terminated 

 by a small distinct curved blackish apical spot; an oblique streak 

 of dark iuscous suft'usion from dorsum at ^ reaching half across 

 wing ; a transverse band of grey sufiusion extending across middle 

 of wing, mixed with dark fuscous towards costa, towards dorsum 

 including a dark fuscous ring open posteriorly ; a rounded blotch 

 of grey suffusion on dorsum before tornus; a thick upwards-oblique 

 dark fuscous streak from middle of termen, not nearly reaching 

 costa: cilia whitish-ochreous, with fuscous subbasal line, above 

 apical spot blackish. Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter towards 

 base ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade. 



PoETUGUFSE Eabt Afkica, E. of Mt. Chiperonc, in April (JVeave); 

 one specimen. Type in British Museum. 



GELECHIADJ5. 



PROSELOTIS, n. g. 



Head smooth ; tongue developed. Antennae 4, in J simple, 

 basal joint moderately elongate, without jjecten. Labial palpi 

 long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense appressed scales, 

 dilated towards apes, terminal joint as long as second, thickened 

 with dense scales projecting roughly posteriorly, acute. Maxillary 

 palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibife 

 clothed with long haiis above. Forewings with 2 from towards 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, 

 very narrowly elongate-trapezoidal, apex slenderlj' long-produced, 

 termen obliquely bisinuate, cilia cJ ; 2-4 remote, parallel, 5 curved, 

 approximated, 6 and 7 parallel. 



Allied to Metzneria. 



Proselotis sceletodes, n. sp. 



S . 11 mm. Head ocbreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, second 

 joint fuscous except apex, terminal joint with two bauds of dark 

 fuscous irroratiou. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen pale 

 greyish-ochreous. Forewings very narrowly lanceolate; pale 

 ochreous mixed with fuscous in disc, costal area and fold suffused 

 with whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous; black dots in disc 

 at |-, beyond middle, and at |, and two on fold obliquely before the 

 two first of these ; a fine streak of dark fuscous irroration running 

 into apex, and some undefined dots round apical margin : cilia pale 

 ochreous-greyish, Hindwings grey ; cilia pale ochreous-greyish. 



