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anterior 2/5 and reaching half across wing ; two or three 

 small dark fuscons spots posteriorly. Hind wings pale 

 greyish ; cilia grey- whitish. 



Mt. Mnrud, 4500 feet, one specimen, in indifferent condition, 

 but the species is easily recognisahle and interesting, the other 

 species of the genns being South American ; with these it 

 agrees entirely in characters and appearance, except that the 

 second joint of palpi is rather rougher beneath. 



Chionoreas n. g. 



Head with dense rough hair scales, longest on face; ocelli 

 posterior ; tongue verv short ; some lons" cilia from lower orbit 

 of eye. Antennae 5/fi, in rf simple, joints closely set, basal 

 joint moderate, with very long compressed fringe-tnft of dense 

 scales, terminal joint short, obtnse, resting on apical scales 

 of second . 



Maxillary palpi verv short, simple, porrected. All tibiae 

 r>lothed with fine rough spreading hairs. Fore wings with \h 

 furcate, 2 from near angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 9 and 

 10 approximated, 11 from towards base. Hind wings under 

 1, ovate-lanceolate, cilia 1 ; 2 remote, 8 and 4 parallel, 5 and 

 6 closely approximated at base, 7 parallel. 



.\ development of Tinea. 



Chtonotieas efryochtha n. sp. 



cT 20 mm. Head and palpi light fuscous. Thorax darker 

 fuscous n white posterior dot. I^egs snow-white. Fore wings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen 

 very oblinuely roimded ; brownish-fuscous sprinkled dark 

 fuscous, with glossy violet reflections : a broad white costal 

 streak from base to near apex, extremities pointed, edge some- 

 what irregular: a white apical dot; cilia whitish -ochreous, 

 with 8 or 4 bars of dark grey irroration, on tornal area, 

 whitish suifusedly irrorated dark grey. Hind wings pale 

 brassy-grey; cilia ochreous- white. 



Mt. Murud, 6800 feet, one specimen. 



Elatobta deitopheacta n. sp. 



9 15 mm. Head white, face fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous 

 (injured). Thorax white, shoulders dark fuscous. Fore wings 

 elongate apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; white, 

 suffused pale ochreous-yellowish on posterior third and towards 

 fold except at base ; a blackish costal streak from base to a 

 triangular blackish patch which extends on costa from before 

 middle to near 3/4, and reaches 2/3 across wing ; cilia whitish- 



