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third suffused with grey, cilia whitish touched with ochreous, towards 
the apex becoming suffused with grey. 
Tegumen long, narrow, base little dilated, apex dilated, bilobed, 
bristled. Valvae asymmetrical, right narrow, left much broader, cucullus 
dilated, covered with peculiar, clavate, penicillate bristles; right sacculus 
simple, left with a short bristled knob and a long hooked crochet. Vinculum 
erect-triangular. Anellus, a broad slightly bristled plate, with a slit in the 
middle. Aedoeagus small, pistol-shaped, acute. (Slide no. 970 D, type.) 
Very much similar to the genitalia of the genotype, European A . spartiella 
Schranck (Pierce, Gen. Brit. Tin., p. 21, pi. 12, 1935). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One specimen. 
Homotima gen. nov. (fig. 557) 
o/xorifxog = equal in esteem 
Head with smoothly appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis 
developed. Antenna over 1, in female moderately thickened throughout 
with whorls of subappressed fine scales, appearing serrate, scape elongate, 
without pecten. Labial palpus very long, curved, ascending, with median 
segment exceeding base of the antenna, thickened with closely appressed 
Fig. 557 : Homotima purpurata gen. nov., spec, nov., male, wing neuration and head. 
scales, hardly roughish anteriorly, slightly tapering towards the extre- 
mities, terminal segment 1, smooth, slender, acute. Maxillary palpus 
mi nute, appressed. Thorax smooth. (Posterior legs missing.) bore wing 
with costa gently convex, apex moderately pointed, termen rounded, 
long, very oblique; lb furcate at base, 2 and 3 stalked from the angle, 
