20 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera 



simpHcibus, seel a basi tiltra medium in latere exteriore pilosis, 

 palpis longioribus, abdomine latiore." 



= Atkinsonia, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n. s.), V., 



125 (1859). 



Type. Atkinsonia clerodendronella, Stn. 



" Head smooth, broad, flat ; labial palpi long, slender, recurved, 



terminal joint rather longer than the second joint. Antennae stout, 



clothed on one side with long loose scales nearly to the tip. 



Anterior wings broadest beyond the middle, the costa being at first 



slightly concave ; posterior wings narrow and pointed. Abdomen 



broad, depressed, with long scales at the side. Legs, especially the 



hind pair, with long tufts of scales. 



"A singular and beautiful genus, belonging to the 

 family Elachistidm.'" 



Tabulation of the species comprised in the genus 

 (Edematopoda : — 



A. Fore wings yellowish, with black apex —princeps, Z. 



B. Fore wings unicolorous. 



a. Fore wings cupreous =: clerodendronella, Stn. 

 h. Fore wings red. 



1. Head and antennae purplish = ignipicta, Btl. 



2. Head and antenn;\; red = leechi, Wlsm. 



[PI. iv.] 



princeps, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 96 — 7. 



" Abdomine aurantiaco, apice nigro ; pedibus chalybeo-nigris ; 

 alis ex basi aurantiacis, postice nigris, ciliis posteriorum a basi ad 

 medium aurantiacis ( $ ). Magnitudine Oec. cuspidellce minoris, 

 sequentibus major. Caput violaceo-nigrum, fronte lata. ' Palpi 

 thoracis longitudine, recurvi, graciles; articulo primo et secundo 

 ochraceis, secundo squamis subincrassato, basim versus attenuato ; 

 terminali secundi longitudine, tenui, acuto, fusco. Haustelli 

 dorsum ad basim squamis exalbidis tectum. Antennae abdominis 

 fere longitudine, latere exteriore dense pilosae, pilis nigris, chalybeo- 

 nitidis, paulatim magnitudine accrescentibus, ante antennarum 

 ultimam octavam fere partem abrupte desinentibus ; haec pars 

 terminalis nuda est, nigra, subserrata. Thorax Itevigatus, niger, 

 nitidulus. Patagia miniata, margine exteriore latins violaceo 

 nigro. Pedes nigri, chalybeo-coerulei instar nitidi ; anticorum cox* 

 et posticorum tibiae ad basim miniatae. Tibiae tarsique pedum 



