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with long truncate conical prominence ; antennae of male pecti- 

 nate with rather long uniseriate branches to near apex, the shaft 

 with large sinus at base containing a double ridge of scales 

 enclosing a hollow. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 

 4 absent ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 not anastomosing with 7. 



Megalophota leoxella, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white with a slight red-brown 

 tinge on shoulders, the antennal tufts black on inner side; 

 abdomen ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with 

 red -brown. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area slightly irrorated to near apex. Hind wing 

 ochreous white. 



Sierra Leone (Dudgeon)* 1 $ type. Exp. 20 mm. 



Genus Martia. . 



Type. 



Martia Rag. N. Am. Phyc. p. 18 (1887) arizonella. 



Urula Hulst, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 175 (1900) arizonella. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi with the 2nd joint porrect, extending 

 about twice the length of head, the 3rd rather oblique, long, 

 slender, and somewhat acute at extremity ; maxillary palpi 

 slight and filiform ; irons with large truncate conical prominence; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and with fascicles of long cilia. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved ; vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3 from before 

 angle; 5 from above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 8, 9 

 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from long 

 before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 from angle, approximated for a 

 short distance, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 not anasto- 

 mosing with 7. 



Martia arizonella. 



Martia arizonella Rag. N. Am. Phyc. p. 18 (1887); id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii. p. 367, pi. 38. f. 20 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 439, 



Urula incongruella Hulst, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 175 (1900); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 437. 



U.S.A., Colorado, Arizona. 



Genus Discofiiontia. 

 Discofrontia Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 350(1901). normella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled and flattened, 



