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A curious genus. Tlie species are dull-coloured and often very 

 .similar, so tliat considerable care is required in separating them. 



1. Forewings with brownisli blotches. 89. confertelUt. 



" ' without " " 2. 



2. Forewings appearing blackish or dark fuscous. 3. 



" " - grey. 4, 



3. Forewings with blackish streaks or spots. 93. atratella, 



" without " '" " 92. capnodes. 



4. Forewings with a roundish darker spot in disc posteriorly. 



90. gravis. 



" without " " 5. 



5. Forewings with a short oblique black streak from base of 



costa. 6. 



Forewings without " " " 7. 



6. Forewings Mdth ill-defined longitudinal dark streak below 



middle. 95. cinerosa. 



Forewings without " " 96. axesta. 



7. Hindwings wholly ochreous-whitish. 91. horridula. 



" more or less grey. 8. 



S. Expanse of wings over 30 mm. 94. Cinderella. 



" " under 20 mm. 9. 



9. Hindwings in male whitish anteriorly. 98. fascifera. 



" " wholly grey. 97. diminuta. 



89. Agr. con/ertella, Walk. 



{Criiptolechia conferteUa, "Walk. 758.) 



Female 27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish, finely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; palpi with lower half of second 

 joint dark fuscous. Antenncie grey. Abdomen light fuscous. 

 Legs white, banded with dark fuscous irroration, tarsi dark 

 fuscous with white rings at apex of joints. Forewings elongate- 

 oblong, costa strongly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin very 

 obliquely rounded ; whitish, partially tinged with pale grey, and 

 finely irrorated throughout with blackish ; a brown oblique fascia- 

 like spot from costa about J, somewhat dilated dow^nwards, 

 reaching to below middle of disc, containing a blackish suffusion 

 towards its lower extremity ; a roundish brown blotch in disc 

 -about |, including a longitudinal suffused blackish streak, and 

 confluent posteriorly with a smaller brown blotch on middle of 

 hindmargin ; a sinuate fuscous line from middle of costa to centre 

 of blotch at I ; an ill-defined blackish-fuscous denticulate line 

 from f of costa to inner margin before anal angle, very strongly 

 curved outwards so as to approach margin throughout, followed 

 on costa by two or three small spots of brownish suffusion : cilia 

 whitish, barred with brownish and partially irrorated with black. 



