PYKALIDvE, SUBFAMILY H YPSOTROPINiE. 



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base ; pectus and legs white suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 white tinged with purplish pink, the veins streaked with white ; 

 the costal area white narrowing to a point at apex and with vein 12 

 denned on each side by brown, a brown shade below the costal 

 area. Hind wing white with a faint ochreous brown tinge on 

 costal area and in submedian interspace. 



Br. E. Africa, Teita {Jackson), 1 type. Exp. 16 mm. 



(3) fliEOTROPA PAPUANENSIS, Sp. 11. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with reddish 

 brown, the last dorsally tinged with fulvous towards base. Fore 

 wing whitish irrorated with reddish brown, the costal area rather 

 whiter, narrowing to a point at apex and with slight brown 

 streak below it. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brown, 

 the cilia white. 



Dutch N, Guinea, Ron I. (Doherty), 1 6 type. Eoop. 14 mm. 

 Genus Alamosa. 



T - y P e - 



Alamosa Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 369 (1901) . piperatella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi downcurved, extending 

 about twice the length of head and thickly scaled ; maxillary 

 palpi minute and filiform ; irons with flattened corneous plate 

 produced to two slight points in front and thickly scaled above : 

 antennas of male laminate. Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded; 

 vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 6 

 from below upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked, 8 from beyond 10 ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from just before angle of 

 cell ; 3 and 5 strongly stalked, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 strongly anastomosing with 7. 



(1) Alamosa piperatella. 



Alamosa piperatella Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 369, pi. 51. 

 f. 25(1901). 



U.S.A., Colorado, New Mexico. 



(2) * Alamosa bipunctella. 



Alamosa bipunctella Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. 

 N. Am. ii. 4, p. 184, pi. 1. f. 7 (1913). 

 U.S.A., Florida. 



Genus Navasota. 



Type. 



Navasota Rag. N. Am. Phyc. p. 18 (1887) hebetella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi extending about the 

 length of head and moderately scaled, the 2nd joint oblique, the 

 3rd porrect ; maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; frons smooth 

 with conical tuft of hair ; antennas of male laminate and ciliated, 



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