Genera and Species of Pyraiidce. 0,5 



Head, face, and palpi blackish ; abdomen grey. Underside 

 whitish gy^j^ with an ochreous suffusion. 



Expanse of wings 16 millini. 



One male, without locality, in the Zeller collection. 



DiCYMOLOMIA, Zell. 

 Type Cataclysta j ulianalisj Wlk. xvii. p. 438. 



Dlcymolomia diminutalis ^ sp. n. 



Fore wing bone-colour, irregularly suffused with pale 

 tawny and steely grey ; basal area dusted with very fine 

 blackish atoms ; bounded by an indeterminate brown shade, 

 representing the first line, which runs obliquely from near 

 the base of the inner margin to a dark spot in the middle of 

 the costa ; second line, a broadish shade, starts from the costa 

 at three fourths, forms first an outward curve, and then dis- 

 appears ; space between the lines finely dusted with steel- 

 grey in the costal half, but suffused with pale tawny ochreous 

 and grey towards the inner margin ; submarginal area darker 

 grey, becoming tawny towards the costa ; fringe with two 

 very fine dark lines, and a similar line parallel and preceding 

 the basal line. Ilind wing with the costal half whitish, 

 becoming gradually darker cinereous ; four black white- 

 faced dots along hind margin ; a faint, pale, curved subcen- 

 tral band ; tuft of hairs blackish ; abdominal margin and 

 fringe whitish. Head and thorax grey and tawny mixed ; 

 abdomen grey at first, becoming more ochreous towards the 

 anal segments. 



Expanse of wings 12 millim. 



One male from Callao, only about half as large as the two 

 North-American species. 



MiCRAGLOSSA, gen. nov. 



Fore wing shaped like Scoparia, and with apparently the 

 same marknigs, but the scaling is more glossy and resembling 

 that of Aglossa. Labial palpi upcurved in front of face ; the 

 second joint hairy, tlie third acuminate and rather long; 

 maxillary palpi feathery, erect, just behind the labial, reaching 

 to the top of their second joint ; tongue short, but present ; 

 ocelli absent; antennse moniliform ( ? ) ; head rough in front 

 between the antenna. 



Type M. scoparialis^ Warr. 



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