476 Mr. W. Warren on new 



middle : scaling smooth and glossy, wlien fresh iridescent, 

 burnished. 



Type //. suffusalisj Wlk. {Scopula). 



I.OXOSCIA. 



Fore wings elongate triangular ; costa straight, much 

 longer than the inner margin, convex before apex; hind 

 margin decidedly oblique, curved : hind wings rounded : 

 labial palpi upcurved in front of face ; terminal joint short, 

 conical, but distinct ; maxillary erect, small, and thin ; tongue 

 and ocelli present ; antenna long, slender ; in the male pubes- 

 cent beneath, with fine ciliations. Scaling silky, not dense ; 

 markings, two stigmata and two transverse lines, the second 

 always very oblique, running more or less parallel to the hind 

 margin, with the space beyond in both wings filled up with 

 darker. The American species have a small tuft of scales 

 projecting from the inner margin, and ocelloid stigmata, and 

 may have to be separated. 



Typ6 Loxoscia sciwisalis, Wlk. {Botys). 



MiMORISTA. 



Eesembles Scwrista, Warr,, in pattern and colouring, but 

 distinguished by the shajje of the labial palpi, which are short, 

 porrected obliquely upwards, but not curved along the fore- 

 head ; the third joint invisible, lost in the second, the top of 

 which is cut straight off or but slightly rounded. 



Type Mimori.sta botydaJis^ Guen. [Samea). 



Haritalodes. 



Near to Pantographa (Led.), but with more rounded apex 

 to the fore wings and rounder hind margin of hind wings. 

 Abdomen shorter and stoufer, with the second and last 

 segment in the female, the second and penultimate segment 

 in the male, with a black (or brown) ring. Markings : three 

 ocelloid stigmata, two transverse lines, the latter ajtproaching 

 the Ibrnier on the inner margin, a submarginal fascia, a thick 

 marginal line, and all the nervures beyond the middle 

 brownish black : hind wing with three curved lines and an 

 ocellus. 



Type I/aritalodfs multilinealisj Ciucn. [Botys). 



rn.EDKOrSIS. 



Distinguished from both Ilaritala, Moore, and Orthospila, 

 AA'arr., witli both of which it is closely allioil, by the much 



