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Body hardly stout. Proboscis of the usual length. Palpi curved, 

 ascending, rising higher than the vertex ; second joint broadly 

 fringed ; third lanceolate, much shorter and more slender than the 

 second. Legs smooth, slender ; spurs long and slender. Fore wings 

 rather narrow, slightly acute ; exterior border bent in the middle ; 

 interior border dentate in the middle, its outer part slightly exca- 

 vated ; first, second and third inferior veins contiguous at the base ; 

 fourth very remote. 



72. TAFALLA CLAVIFERA. Cinereo-cervina, abdomine cinereo, alis 

 anticis plaga basali costali strigam auratam includente lineis duabus 

 antemediis undulatis lineisque duabus mediis angulatis saturate cer- 

 vinis linea postrnedia antica transversa angulosa nigricante lineis 

 duabus postmediis posticis transversis argenteis linea exteriore trans- 

 versa angulosa nigricante plaga postica fasciaque submarginali arcuata 

 auratis connexis striga marginali clavata argenteo-alba, alis posticis 

 fuscescentibus. 



Cinereous fawn-colour. Body beneath, palpi, abdomen, legs and 

 under side of wings cinereous. Fore wings with a darker fawn- 

 coloured costal patch at the base, including a gilded streak ; two 

 antemedial undulating darker fawn-coloured lines ; two middle darker 

 lines, which form a prominent outward angle in the middle ; a post- 

 medial blackish transverse zigzag line on the fore part, and on the 

 hind part two silvery postmedial transverse lines which diverge from 

 each other towards the interior border, where the second traverses a 

 large gilded patch ; an exterior blackish transverse zigzag line ; 

 a submarginal curved gilded band, which joins the patch on the inte- 

 rior border ; a marginal clavate silvery white streak. Hind wings 

 brownish. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Limas. 



Genus PINCIA. 



Fcem. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis gracilis. Palpi squa- 

 roosi, graciles, subarcuati, oblique ascendentes, verticem superantes, 

 articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2o multo brevior. Pedes laeves, longius- 

 culi, gracillimi, calcaribus longissimis gracillimis. Alae anticae latae, 

 acutse, subfalcatae, costa basi subconvexa margine exteriore angulato, 

 alis posticis abdomen superantibus. 



Female. Body rather stout. Proboscis slender, moderately long. 

 Palpi slender, squamous, very slightly curved, obliquely ascending, 

 rising higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, more slender 

 and much shorter than the second. Abdomen rather shorter than 

 the interior border of the hind wings. Legs smooth, rather long, very 

 slender; hind tibiffl with four very long and slender spurs. Wings 



