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and curved slightly waved postmedial line ; hind wing with 
brown discoidal spot, medial line excurved beyond the cell, 
two slightly waved postmedial lines, and diffused subterminal 
line. 
Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, 1 E type. 
Exp. 32 milhm. 
Genus HABROSTOLODES, nov. 
Type, H. congressa, Walk. ( Abrostola ), xv. 1781 (1858). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
rather long ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of female ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 
small spreading crests, the mesothorax with small paired 
crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the mid-tibiae with fringe of 
hair above towards base ; build rather slender ; abdomen 
smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing rather long 
and narrow, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the 
termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 
angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the 
cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from just above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus PSEUDOSPHETTA, nov. 
Type, P. moorei, Cotes & Swinhoe ( Sphetta ), Cat. Moths Ind. 
p. 172 (1887) (n. n. for S. apicalis, Moore, 1879). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to above vertex of head and fringed above with hair 
at extremity, the 3rd short, porrect and thickly scaled ; 
frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with tuft of hair on upper side of shaft towards 
base, the shaft then thickened for a short distance, the lower 
side of shaft with slender branches and bristles, the upper side 
at middle with serrations ending in bristles, the terminal 
part ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with hair and 
without crests ; tibia) of male and the 1st joint of tarsi fringed 
with long hair, in female the tibiae moderately fringed with 
hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 
wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly 
curved, crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 
4, 5 from angle ; (> from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form a short areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 
