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irroratis guttatis et fasciculatis. Alis posticis ovatis 
cinereo-ochraceis, ciliis pallidoribus. 
Head with appressed pale greyish fuscous scales, 
paler in front and beneath. Antenne rather stout, not 
ciliated. Tongue none; ocelli none; maxillary palpi 
none. Labial palpi recurved, dingy whitish, touched 
with cinereous on their outer sides, with the second 
joint tufted beneath, the apical joint shorter than the 
second and concealed in a tuft of coarse scales. Fore 
wings elongate (with the apex rounded), dingy whitish, 
thickly irrorated and speckled with cinereous and 
fuscous dots, especially conspicuous towards the costal 
and apical margins, with several groups of raised scales, 
especially noticeable on the basal half. Hind wings 
rather shining yellowish cinereous, with paler cilia. 
Hind tibiz short, incrassated, densely pilose above 
having the inner and outer spurs of very unequal length. 
Abdomen missing. Expanse, 32 mm. 
Taken in December at light, in Spring Vale. 
The earliest description of any species of this genus, 
so far as I am able to ascertain, is that of Tiquadra 
inscitella, Walk. (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 519), from 
Mexico, from which the African species above mentioned 
differs only in its larger size, its somewhat wider fore 
wings, and rather darker shade of colouring. They may 
possibly be found to be not specifically distinct, although 
coming from such widely separated localities. Oscella 
eneonwella, Walk., from Venezuela, and Manchana 
avitella, Walk., from Santa Martha, the types of which 
I have examined, are also evidently congeneric. 
Prof. Zeller (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiii., pp. 196—208) 
has described four species also from South America, 
establishing for their reception the genus Acureuta, 
Zell., pointing out that two species, figured by Messrs. 
Felder and Rogenhofer (Reise d. Noy. pl. 188, fig. 46, and 
pl. 189, fig. 50), placed by these authors in the genus 
Scardia, Tr., belong to the same genus. The two figures 
referred to evidently represent this very distinct and 
remarkable form, which furnished Mr. Walker with 
material for the formation of lis three genera, Tiquadra, 
Oscella, and Manchana; but it is not within the scope of 
the present paper to determine how many distinct species 
have actually been described, or how many names should 
rank only as synonyms. 
