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LIMERIA: CINGLIS. By L. B. Prout. 



discal dot hardly distinct in the median shade; distal marginal line fine, continuous, black, thickened at the 

 posterior angle; fringe whitish, chequered with black. Hindwing similar, without first line; second line very 

 oblique at first and fine as far as the 2°'' subcostal, on which it forms a very acute angle, then broad and 

 thick; distal margin rather deeply sinuate, especially near the inner angle, which is acute and prominent; 

 shape of the wing recalling that of intermedia Stgr. Under surface greyish at the base of the wings, paler 

 towards the distal margin, with the median shade and second line of the upper surface rather distinct. 

 Head and thorax concolorous with wings; vertex yellowish brown; antenna brown, finely cihated; palpus 

 brown; abdomen yellowish, with black scales at the extremity of the segments; legs yellowish ochraceous, 

 the posterior a little shorter. It does not appear certain that this very characteristic new species is a traie 

 Acidalia, although it approaches that genus in having the 2°'' subcostal and 1^' radial of the hindwing stalked. 

 The knowledge of both sexes will no doubt permit our being more definite. Flies in June, at Gafsa. The 

 above description suggests a possible relative (or even a small light form) of figiu-aria Bang-Haas, which 

 also I do not known in nature. Neither the sex nor the hindtibial armature is indicated. 



halestraria. Pt. balestraria D. Luc. (as Acidalia) "Forewing rather elongate, in both sexes yellowish* white above 



with a very distinct black discal dot; fringe slightly darkened; between the discal dot and the fringe, and 

 nearer to the former, there is a very fine yellowish line, parallel with the distal margin, anteriorly with an 

 obtuse angle, pointing distad; parallel to this, a sinuous line formed of brown patches of equal breadth; 

 finally, touching the fringe, a rather distinct brown line, thickened at the apex; a line parallel to the distal 

 margin passes close to the discal dot and forms at this point a right-angle; between the thorax and this line 

 there is a very fine brown one, parallel to it; basal area slightly shaded with brown. Hindwing concolorous, 

 with similar lines, continuing those of the forewing; those between the discal dot and the fringe sharply 

 defined. Wings beneath lighter, markings a little less distinct. Thorax, head and abdomen yellowish white. 

 Vertex white. Antenna fihform, yellowish. Legs of the same colour. Palpus very short. Tongue rather 

 short, yellowish". Described from several of both sexes taken at Tozeur, Tunis, in June 1907. 



21. Genus: liimeria Stgr. 



Palpus very small. Tongue apparently wanting. Antenna in cf with fascicles of long ciha. Hindtibia 

 in cf without spurs, in ? with slender, not very well developed terminal spurs; tarsus not aborted. Forewing 

 in cf very narrow and pointed, in ? still narrower, almost lanceolate; cell long, neuration otherwise as in 

 FtycJwpoda. Hindwing very narrow, the distal margin sinuate, about as in the narrowest-winged Ptychopoda; 

 costal vein touching subcostal at a point near the base, continuing approximated for some distance; 2"'' sub- 

 costal stalked with P' radial. 



An evident offshoot of Ptgchopoda, differing in scarcely anything except the extreme shape and the 

 apparent absence of the tongue; it is strange that Staudinger entirely failed to recognize its very evident 

 affinities and associated it with Egca and the genus which he calls Acalia (Ithysia Hbn.). I have only been 

 able to examine a single pair, Zeller's originals mentioned by Staudinger. 



The sole known species inhabits a restricted area north of the Caspian Sea. 



macraria. 



L. macraria ^tgr. (3 b, cf). Greyish sand-colour, dusted with dark atoms, the hindwing rather paler. 

 Forewing with blackish fliscal dot and dark postmedian line, the latter placed rather near the distal margin, 

 running slightly obliquely from the posterior margin in the direction of the apex, but acutely angled after 

 crossing the first radial; a rather more diffuse line usually follows the postmedian, from the posterior margin 

 to the first radial, and the narrow area between the latter line and the distal margin is whitish. The hind- 

 wing is similarly or more weakly marked. Under surface similar, slightly more brightly coloured and sharply 

 marked, the hindwing not paler than the forewing. Sarepta and the Ural. 



The Cosymbia-group. 



22. Genus: Cinglis Guen. 



Palpus moderately long, rough-scaled beneath, cf antenna with long fascicles of cilia, arising from 

 short pectinations. Hindtibia slender, in cf with 2, in ? with 4 spurs. Forewing with areole simple ; S"" sub- 

 costal arising below (behind) its apex, P' to 4"' subcostals long-stalked. Hindwing with 2"'* subcostal and 

 P' median very shortly stalked, perhaps sometimes arising from a point at apex of cell, discocellulars 

 oblique, P' median arising separate from 3'''' radial. 



In aspect a somewhat isolated genus and consisting only of a single species, belonging chiefly to 

 Southern Siberia; a few other species have been referred here by Hulst and Warren, but erroneously. 



