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our genus ; and am surprised that neither Duponchel nor 

 Stephens has made a genus of it. 



Fam. — PYRALID.E, or Crambid^. 



Gen. 992. — Homceosoma. Curt. 



Labial palpi porrected horizontally considerably beyond the head? 

 slender and tapering : maxillae much shorter than the antennae, 

 which are simple and setaceous, the palpi minute : abdomen ter- 

 minated by a pencil of scales : wings convoluted, I believe, when 

 at rest ; superior narrow, sublanceolate, and rather obtuse ; in- 

 ferior ample. 



1. Gemina. Haw. Lep. Brit. 



Dirty ochre, shining : superior wings with an irregular fuscous bar 

 at the middle, another, forming a fimbria, and a 3d between 

 them ; inferior wings fuscous. (Length 3^, breadth 9 lines.) 

 This insect is distinguished from Crambus by the short- 

 ness of the labial palpi, and from Phycita by their straightness. 

 Mr. Stephens has included it with the Phycitae. 



Fam. — TiNEiDvE. 



Gen. 998. — Dasystoma. Curt. 



Male, rough, hairy : palpi forming 2 hairy brushes : antennae rather 

 long, distinctly ciliated : head broad and hairy : abdomen rarther 

 short and stout : superior wings lanceolate, the costa arched, 2 

 nervures at the base, and a transverse one beyond the middle 

 elevated : legs rather robust, the spurs stout, 



L Salicella, Hub. Tin. PI. 2, Fig. 9. a dark variety of the 



male : incompletaria, Haw. Lep. Brit. ? . 



Our British specimens are generally rosy in colour ; this 

 insect approaches nearest to Tinea Phryganella, Hub. ; but is 

 distinguished from it by the obtuse hairy palpi. 



Gen. 1000. — Cheimaphasia. Curt. 



Male, smooth, shining : palpi very minute, slightly hairy : antenna 

 short, slightly pubescent beneath : head small, pubescent on the 

 crown : abdomen rather slender : superior wings sublanceolate, 

 very much narrowed towards the base : legs slender, the spurs 

 small and acute. Wings of the female lanceolate, hairy, shorter 

 than the body. 



