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projecting scales beneath, tolerably truncate, terminal joint con- 

 cealed. Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform. Abdomen in male 

 with small anal tnft, valves retracted. Posterior tibiae with outer 

 spurs somewhat more than half inner. Fore wings with vein 10 

 rising out of stalk of 8 and 9, 11 oblique. Hind wings somewhat 

 broader than fore wings ; veins 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out 

 of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near middle. 



115. Epichronistis acrospila, n. s. 

 3', 2, 18 — 22 mm. Head and antenna; yellow-whitish, face 

 dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, beneath broadly white. Thorax 

 yellow-whitish, in male anterior margin, in female shoulders 

 suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen yellow-whitish, with two 

 dark fuscous dots near base ; in male three apical segments dark 

 fuscous above. Legs white, anterior tibiae dark fuscous. Fore 

 wings triangular, costa hardly sinuate, posteriorly moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, hind margin nearly straight, oblique, rounded 

 beneath ; very pale whitish yellowish, more yellowish in female ; 

 a moderately broad greyish fuscous streak along costa from base to 

 apex, somewhat interrupted beyond second line, lighter in female, 

 continued fr-om apex along hind margin in male to middle, finely 

 attenuated beneath, in female to anal angle, irregularly narrower 

 beneath ; lines very slender, fuscous ; first from one-fifth of costa 

 to one-third of inner margin, slightly curved ; second from three- 

 fourths of costa towards anal angle, upper half somewhat inwards- 

 curved, at two-thirds rectang;ilarly bent inwards to beneath middle 

 of disc, thence again rectangularly bent to inner margin about 

 two-thirds ; two conspicuous dark fuscous discal spots touching 

 lower margin of costal streak, first very small, round, at one- 

 fourth, second larger, transverse-oval, in middle ; cilia yellow- 

 whitish. Hind wings yellow-whitish ; a conspicuous dark fuscous 

 discal dot beyond one-third ; second line as in fore wings ; a 

 roundish rather dark greyish fuscous apical spot ; cilia yellow- 

 whitish. 



Although this species is widely distributed, and likely 

 to have been described, I have not been able to identify it. 



Fiji {Matliew, Lucas) ; several specimens. I have 

 taken it also in Mauritius. 



Lygropis, Ld. (?). 



Forehead oblique; ocelli present; tongue well developed. An- 

 tennae three-fourths of fore wings, in male ("?). Labial palpi 

 moderately long, second joint obliqiiely ascending, clothed with 



