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show whether these are anything more than slight geographical 

 forms. I regard the first-mentioned form as the type. 



18. Procometis, n. g. 

 Head smooth ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennae 

 moderate, in male filiform or serrate, simple, basal joint mode- 

 rately elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, 

 second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint almost as long 

 as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, appressed 

 to tongue. Thorax smooth. Abdomen moderate. Posterior 

 tibi?e rough-haired above. Fore wings with vein 1 furcate to- 

 wards base, 2 from -|, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to costa or 

 apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings over 1, trapezoidal, apex 

 roundpointed, costa in male clothed with very long hairs on basal 

 half lying beneath forewings, lb densely haired towards base, 

 shortly furcate at base, 3 and 4 from a point or short-stalked, 5 

 parallel, 6 and 7 from a point or short-stalked, 8 connected with 

 cell at a point towards base. 



1. Forewings with apex acute. 2. 



" " " obtuse. 5. 



2. Forewings with costa whitish-yellowish. 83. lipara. 



" white. 3. 



3. Forewings with costal white streak suffused. 84. hylonoma. 



" " " " " sharply defined. 4. 



4. Forewings with central white streak as broad as costal. 



81. hisulcata. 

 " " " " " much slenderer than 



costal. 82. monocalama. 



5. Hindwings yellow ochreous. 85. genialis. 



" fuscous-grey. 86. diplocentroj. 



81. Proc. hisulcata, n. sp. 

 Both sexes 17-20mm. Head ochreous -brownish. Palpi 

 ochreous-fuscous, base whitish. Antennse dark fuscous. Thorax 

 ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs fuscous, 

 posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex acute, hindmargin faintly sinuate, extremely oblique ; 

 ochreous-fuscous or brownish-ochreous ; a silvery-white streak 

 along costa from base almost to apex ; a straight central longi- 

 tudinal silvery-white streak from base to hindmargin beneath 

 apex, more or less sufiused on lower edge, sometimes tending to 

 become obsolete posteriorly : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 in male whitish-ochreous, posteriorly fuscous-tinged, in female 

 fuscous, paler towards base ; costal hairs of male whitish-ochreous, 

 forming a dense pencil lying along upper surface on costa ; cilia 

 whitish-grey-ochreous. 



