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xocttjid.t;. 



line joining the black on the outer edge of the antemcdial line; 

 orbicular a minute ratlier quadrate white spot defined by brown 

 before the medial line ; an obli(]ue white patch from costa towards 

 apex with some minute blackish spots on the costa, the postraedial 

 line arising from it at vein 6, white slightly defined on inner side 

 by brown and brown streaks, minutely waved, incurved below vein 

 4, a red-brown shade beyond it, running obliquely to apex towards 



Fig. (52. — Nucieolafahalls, (^ . 



which it is prominent; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing white tinged with reddish brown and with brown terminal 

 line ; the underside with dark brown discoidal spot and mark at 

 extremity of vein 1. 



Hab. S. France; Spaun; Corsica; Sardinia; Italy, jSTaples, 

 Zeller Coll., Capri (C. S. Browne) ; Sicily ; Algeria, Hammam-es- 

 Salahin ( Walsinglimn), 1 2 ; Aitstria, Croatia, Zeller Coll., Istria ; 

 Lalmatia, Zeller and Fry Colls. ; Syria. Exp. 18-22 millim. 



Genus STENOSTICTA, nov. 



Type, S. grisea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturnerl, tlie 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front and 

 behind, the 8rd short, porrect ; frons smootli ; eyes large, round ; antennie of 

 male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- 

 thorax with small spreading crest ; the metathorax with paired crest ; tibiiie 

 slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with crests on basal segments. Fore wing 

 narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the 

 teruien obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 fully developed 

 from just above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



6458. Stenosticta grisea, n. sp. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey slightly mixed with fuscous ; 

 pectus and legs whitish ; abdomen with the crests on 2nd and 3rd 



Fig. 63. — Sfenosiida grisea, (^ . f. 



segments black. Fore wing grey tinged with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by minute black points below costa and cell ; ante- 



