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II(';i(l, face, and palpi blackish ; aLdomen grey. Underside 

 whitish grey, with an ochrcous suflusion. 



Expanse of wings 16 millim. 



One male, without locality, in the Zcllcr collection. 



DiCYMOLOMIA, Zell. 

 Type Catach/sta j ulianalis, Wlk. xvii. p. 438. 



Dicymolomia diminutalts, sp. n. 



Fore wing Lone-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, bat 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. Hind 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; antennae moniliform ( ? ) ; head rough in front 

 between the antennas. 



Type M. scoparialis, Warr. 



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