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irroratis guttatis et fasciculatis. Alis posticis ovatis 

 cinereo-ochraceis, ciliis pallidoribus. 



Head with appressed pale greyish fuscous scales, 

 paler in front and beneath. Antennae rather stout, not 

 ciliated. Tongue none ; ocelli none ; maxillary palpi 

 none. Labial palpi recurved, dingy whitish, touched 

 with cinereous on their outer sides, with the second 

 joint tufted beneath, the apical joint shorter than the 

 second and concealed in a tuft of coarse scales. Fore 

 wings elongate (with the apex rounded), dingy whitish, 

 thickly irrorated and speckled with cinereous and 

 fuscous dots, especially conspicuous towards the costal 

 and apical margins, with several groups of raised scales, 

 especially noticeable on the basal half. Hind wings 

 rather shining yellowish cinereous, with paler cilia. 

 Hind tibiae short, incrassated, densely pilose above 

 having the inner and outer spurs of very unequal length. 

 Abdomen missing. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Taken in December at light, in Spring Vale. 



The earliest description of any species of this genus, 

 so far as I am able to ascertain, is that of Tiquadra 

 inscitella, Walk. (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 519), from 

 Mexico, from which the African species above mentioned 

 differs only in its larger size, its somewhat wider fore 

 wings, and rather darker shade of colouring. They may 

 possibly be found to be not specifically distinct, although 

 coming from such widely separated localities. Oscella 

 aneonivella, Walk., from Venezuela, and Manchana 

 avitella, Walk., from Santa Martha, the types of which 

 I have examined, are also evidently congeneric. 



Prof. Zeller (Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xiii., pp. 196203) 

 has described four species also from South America, 

 establishing for their reception the genus Acureuta, 

 ZelL, pointing out that two species, figured by Messrs. 

 Felder and Kogenhofer (Keise d. Nov. pi. 138, fig. 46, and 

 pi. 139, fig. 50), placed by these authors in the genus 

 Scardia, Tr., belong to the same genus. The two figures 

 referred to evidently represent this very distinct and 

 remarkable form, which furnished Mr. Walker with 

 material for the formation of his three genera, Tiquadra, 

 Oscella, and Manchana ; but it is not within the scope of 

 the present paper to determine how many distinct species 

 have actually been described, or how many names should 

 rank only as synonyms. 



