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in the cell ; traces of five crenulate reddisla lines ; a prominent series of black submarginal 
specks ; a marginal lunulate crimson line. Underside of fore wing snffused with pinkish 
brown, with an ochreous subapical dot ; hind wing ochreous, with ante- and postmedial 
waved crimson lines and submarginal series of black specks. 
Capnodes finipalpis, Jflk. (Plate CLXVI. figs. 1, 8.) 
Thcrmesia finipalpis, Wll~. Cat. xv. p. 1574. 
Capnodes macuHcosta, Wile Cat. xv. p. 1608. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Reddish brown. Palpi fuscous, with pale tip; tarsi pale-riuged. Fore wing with 
a white costal speck near base ; large white medial and postmedial spots ; three white specks 
towards apex ; faint traces of five waved black lines ; a series of white specks on the post- 
medial line ; a series of marginal black specks. Hind wing similar except for not having 
the white costal spots. 
Female. Much redder in tone ; fore wing without the costal white speck near base, and 
the two white spots replaced by smoky black. 
Capnodes maculapex. (Plate CLXV. fig. 18.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Pale ochreous brown; fore wing with a dark basal patch; very faint medial and 
postmedial waved lines ; two dark specks at the angles of the cell ; a large apical purplish 
blotch, defined inwardly by a red-brown line; a submarginal dark waved line; a series of 
marginal specks. Hind wing with a dark line across the end of cell ; an irregularly diffused 
dark patch at the anal angle ; a series of marginal specks. 
Capnodes tetraspila, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 2.) 
Capnodes tetraspila, Wlh. Cat. xxxiii. p. 1076. 
Expanse $ 1^ inch. 
Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous ; collar white at base, black at 
extremity ; a black patch on vertex of thorax. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with faint 
fine waved lines ; a lunulate black mark on discocellulars ; a black apical patch. Hind wing 
ochreous, with a fuscous apical patch. 
DIOMEA, mk. 
Diomea, Wile. Cat. xiii. p. 1110. 
Male. Closely allied to Capnodes ; palpi with the second and third joints not so long ; 
fore wing with the accessory cell shorter, a long tuft of hair springing from the joint of the 
