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of the thorax, abdomen, and legs white. The 

 primaries on the upper side are uniformly 

 gray, irrorated with minute darker scales and 

 marked by a submarginal series of minute 

 white spots punctuated inwardly with minute 

 blackish spots. The secondaries are gray, 

 slightly paler than the primaries. Theunder 

 side of the primaries is clouded with fuscous 

 except on the costa and outer margins. The 

 under side of the secondaries is white. 



9- The female has the antennae much 

 less strongly pectinated than the male, and 

 the primaries are produced somewhat acutely 

 at the apex. Expanse, $ , 35 to 37 mm. ; $ , 

 50 mm. 



151. T. ignobili*. sp. nov. J 1 . Front, 

 collar, and upper side of thorax obscure gray- 

 ish ; upper side of abdomen and lower side 

 of thorax and abdomen whitish. The upper 

 side of the primaries is whitish with an 

 obscure transverse basal and median zigzag 

 line. There is a submarginal series of small 

 black dots on the interspaces. The second- 

 aries on the upper side and the primaries and 

 the secondaries on the under side are uni- 

 formly white, shining. Expanse, 38 mm. 



Ramesa, Walk. 



152. R. (?) minuta, sp. nov. $. The 

 head, and thorax grayish; the upper side of 

 the abdomen paler gray ; the under side of the 

 thorax and the legs dark gray; the under 

 side of the abdomen whitish. The primaries 

 are grayish-white with a number of minute 

 linear dashes on the outer half of the wing 

 and crossed from the base to the middle of the 

 outer margin by a dark blackish ray. The 

 secondaries on the upper side are pale testa- 

 ceous. On the under side both wings are 

 uniformly testaceous. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Scalmicauda*. gen. nov. 



Palpi small, compressed, heavily scaled, 

 last joint obsolescent. Antennae heavily 

 pectinated for one half the distance from the 



*Scalmus = an oar; cauda = a tail. 



base; the culmen simple beyond the middle. 

 The abdomen projects for one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind margins of the 

 wings, and is provided with a long conspicu- 

 ous brush of anal hairs as in the genus 

 Ichthyura. The primaries are elongated, 

 with the costa straight, slightly rounded at 

 the apex, the outer margin straight, the 

 inner margin curved, with the outer angle 

 excised. The secondaries are subpyriform. 

 In the primaries vein 6 is given off beyond 

 the cell ; veins S and 9 anastomose to near 

 the apex. In the hind wings veins 7 and 8 

 are stalked, vein 9 runs along the upper edge 

 of the cell. Type 5. benga, Holl. 



153. 5. benga, sp. nov. J. Front and 

 collar dark brown ; patagia and upper side 

 of thorax and abdomen dark gray; legs 

 brown; under side of abdomen gravish- 

 brown. Primaries grayish-brown traversed 

 by a pale line running from the apex diagon- 

 ally to the middle of the inner margin, and 

 defined inwardly by dark brown. The area 

 within this line is dark brown contrasting 

 with the lighter area beyond it toward the 

 margin. There is a very fine pale curved 

 sub-basal line succeeded by an annulus on 

 the middle and also at the end of the cell, a 

 similar annulus below the cell at the origin 

 of the median nervule. There are some zig- 

 zag narrow submarginal markings shaded 

 inwardly by rusty sagittate spots. The sec- 

 ondaries on the upper side are fuscous. On 

 the under side both wings are pale wood- 

 brown with the basal area of the primaries 

 clouded with fuscous. Expanse, 36 to 40 mm. 



Macronadata, Moeschl. 



154. M. brunneidorsa, sp. nov. J. Al- 

 lied to M. collaris, Moeschl., from which it 

 differs in lacking the dark spot at the end of 

 the cell of the primaries, and having the 

 middle of the abdomen on the upper side 

 marked bv a broad brown longitudinal band. 

 The secondaries furthermore are heavily 

 clouded with dark brown at the base. The 



