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and posttnedial slightly curved dark liaes ; a submarginal straight ochreous line slightly bent 

 below the costa. Hind wing fuscous white, with a pale postmedial line bent outwards at 

 first median uervule. 



MECISTOPTERA, g. n. 



Antennfe with long ciliations in the male, minute in the female. Palpi upturned, the 

 second joint long and clothed with scales, the third joint long and naked. Abdomen elongate 

 in the male. Fore wing elongate, the apex acute, the outer margin excurved at the 

 median nervules ; costal nervnre straight ; first subcostal given off at half the length of the 

 cell ; the second giving off the third, which anastomoses strongly with the fourth to near the 

 apex; the fifth from the end of the accessory cell ; the upper radial from the angle of the 

 cell ; the lower radial and third median from the lower angle ; the second and first medians 

 from before the angle; submedian nearly straight. Hind ^iug rather square j the costal 

 nervure anastomosing with the subcostal to beyond the middle of the cell ; the two subcostals 

 from the upper angle; the radial from just above the lower angle; two medians from the 

 angle ; the first median from before it ; submedian and internal nervures. 



Mecistoptera griseifusa. (Plate CLXVIII. tig. 14.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Fore wing olive-brown from the base to the middle ; an indistinct medial pale line 

 angled outwards at the lower angle of the cell, and with a blackish patch on it from the cell 

 to the inner margin ; the outer area slightly suffused with purplish grey, and with traces of 

 curved postmedial and submarginal pale lines. Hind wing uniform fuscous. 



Female. Without the dark patch on the medial line of the fore wing, and with the grey 

 suffusion of the outer area much more prominent. 



GYROGNATHA, g. n. 



Male. Autennije ciliated. Palpi recurved, with the second joint thickened and heavily 

 scaled ; the third joint invisible. Fore wing with a costal nervure ; the first subcostal from 

 half the length of cell ; the second anastomosing with the fifth to form a small accessory 

 cell; the fourth given off towards the apex; the upper radial I'rom just below the upper 

 angle of cell ; the lower radial anil third median from the lower angle; the second and first 

 medians from before the end ; a submedian nervure. Hind wing with tlie costal anastomos- 

 ing shortly witli the subcostal ; the two subcostals from end of cell ; the radial from below 

 the middle; two medians from the lower angle; the first median from before the end; 

 submedian and interiud nervures. 



Gyrognatha atriceps. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Expanse |-i inch. 



Male. Pale vinous brown. Fore wing witli antemedial, medial, postmedial, and *ub- 



