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margin decidedly oblique, curved, with a blunt elbow in 

 middle ; anal angle obtuse. Hind wings rather trapezoidal, 

 both angles rounded, and the elbow in middle of hind margin 

 distinct. Vertex with erect scales ; antennse ( ? ) filiform, 

 almost as long as fore wings, annulated ; labial palpi short, 

 stout, squamose, the third joint very small and almost 

 hidden in the scales of the second ; maxillary palpi short, 

 filiform; ocelli present ; tongue distinct ; hind tibise with two 

 pairs of unequal spurs. Neuration : fore wings, cell half the 

 length of wing; discocellular vertical, rather concave; first 

 median at three fourths, second and third from lower angle of 

 cell, lower radial a little above the angle ; upper from the 

 junction of the arms of the discocellular; fifth subcostal from 

 upper angle of cell ; third and fourth stalked from before the 

 angle, fourth into apex, third starting at three fourths ; second 

 subcostal just before the common stem of third and fourth, 

 running parallel to it, first at three fourths : hind wings, cell 

 not half as long as wing ; discocellular angulated, the lower 

 arm oblique and prolonged ; subcostal bent in the middle, 

 where it approaches the costal ; 7 and 8 short-stalked ; 

 medians and radial as in fore wings. Scaling rather feeble, 

 reticulated ; no distinct lines. 

 Type Merodictya suhtessellalis. 



Merodictya subiessellalis, sp. n. 



Wings whitish ochreons, almost covered with dark wood- 

 brown reticulation and suffusion, with a slight olive tint ; 

 costa spotted with white and dark brown ; a faint darker 

 oblique line or shade is visible on inner margin at one fourth, 

 not reaching costa ; marginal area suffused with dark brown 

 except towards apex and above anal angle, where the whiter 

 ground-colour is merely reticulated with brown; this area is 

 bounded inwardly by an indistinct line, which leaves the 

 costa at five sixths, runs obliquely inwards and nearly parallel 

 to hind margin as far as the second median nervule, along 

 which it runs inwards nearly to end of cell, and thence again 

 parallel to hind margin to inner margin at two thirds ; basal 

 half of wing suffused with brown, central area reticulated, 

 very narrow and nearly white on the inner margin, where the 

 basal and hind marginal suffusions nearly meet, with an 

 ill-defined brown cloud on the costa in the middle. Hind 

 wings not suffused, but merely reticulated with brown except 

 at apex ; fringes whitish, irregularly mottled with brown, and 

 with a brown basal line ; thorax and abdomen olive fuscous, 

 the latter with first a narrow white and then a broad blackish 



