^16 Mr. Curtis's Descriptions of some hitherto nondescript 

 Gen. 759 d . Thya Curt. 



Antennas shorter than the wings, basal joint porreeted, long, stout anil hairy ; 

 maxillary palpi long, stout and hairy in both sexes ; wings rounded, very 

 pubescent, nervures indistinct ; tibiae spurred at the apex longest in the 

 middle pair, posterior with a minute pair above the apex. 



7. pullata Curt. 



6 lines : black ; tarsi shining whitish ; wings with a blueish tint, superior 

 with a few very obscure whitish spots. 



8. pygmaea? Fab. v. 5. 202. 31. 



The spurs in my specimens are longer than in the type, but the posterior 

 tibia? only have two pair. 



4. Maurus Curt. 



5 lines: black; wings narrower and more lanceolate, with a slight ochre- 

 ous tint ; legs shining dirty ochre. 



Gen. 759 e . Glossosoma Curt. 



Male: wings with a subscutiform discoidal cell in each, superior with a 

 knot or fold at the base clothed with rigid hairs above, concave beneath ; 

 first pair of spurs on the intermediate tibiae at the middle, those on the pos- 

 terior near the apex ; a large horny subdepressed lobe attached to the un- 

 derside of the sixth segment of the abdomen, with a smaller one on the 

 following joint ; female, with the intermediate tibia? and tarsi very much 

 dilated. 



1. Boltoni Curt. 

 10 lines : antennae, head, thorax and abdomen fuscous castaneous, the former 

 annulated with and the latter tipped with ochre ; wings pubescent, pale 

 fuscous, superior with the callous lump at the base in the male, brown, 

 clothed with black hairs ; stigma and a spot opposite on the inferior mar- 

 gin fuscous, a ail each nemire terminated by a spot of the same colour on 

 the margin alternating with oclneous spots, with an indistinct row behind 

 them, and two or three near the disc of the same colour; inferior wings 

 gray and transparent at the base. 



Gen. 760. Tinodes Lea. MSS. 

 Maxillary palpi long and alike in both sexes ; antenna? shorter than the 

 wings and slender; abdomen short, acuminated and horny in the female; 

 four posterior tibia? with two pair of long spurs on each, first pair near to 

 the base in the intermediate, and considerably below the middle in the pos- 

 terior tibia?. 



A. Wings long and rather narrow, superior with a small discoidal cell and 



four furcate ones on the posterior margin. 



5. luridus Curt. 



9 lines : dirty ochreous ; head, thorax and abdomen castaneous brown ; 

 nervures of superior wings dark brown, inferior wings hyaline and iridescent; 

 legs fulvous. 



B. Wings shorter, more rounded at the apex, superior very pubescent, the 



nervures very indistinct. 



4. pusillus? Fab. Ent. Syst. 2. 81. 33. 



Gen. 760 b . Anticyra Curt. 

 Antennae rather longer than the body, porreeted, not slender ; head very 





