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CATALOGUE OF 
Alse anticae breviusculte, latiusculae, vix acutae, margine exteriore 
subobliquo. 
Female.. Body stout, smooth, squamous. Proboscis moderately 
long. Palpi porrect, not extending beyond the head; third joint 
extremely minute. Antennas stout, smooth, not longer than the 
thorax. Legs short, stout. Wings rather short and broad. Fore 
wings hardly acute ; exterior border slightly oblique. 
1. Nigilgia adjectella. 
Lcern. Capreci ; corpus subtus albidum ; alee anticce lineis plu- 
rimis e atomis cinereis, f asciis duabus atris cupreo Imeatis. 
Female. Cupreous, shining. Body whitish beneath. Proboscis 
tawny. Fore wings with numerous transverse lines composed of 
minute cinereous speckles; two deep black bands; first band with 
two cupreous lines; second band with a cupreous line, which emits 
a streak from its middle to the tip of the wing ; two short cupreous 
streaks, one oblique, in front of the apical part of the first streak, the 
other transverse, proceeding from the costa and parallel to the line 
of the second band. Hind wings with a white fringe. Length of 
the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. \ 
a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft’s collection. 
Genus 28. TIRASIA. 
Mas. Corpus robustum, hirsutum. Proboscis nulla. Palpi 
hirsuti, squamosi, breves, subascendentes. Antennae glabrae, breves, 
validae. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes robusti, breviusculi ; 
tarsi postici pilosi. Alae antiege dense vestitae, apice subrotundatce, 
margine exteriore recto sat obliquo. 
Male. Body stout. Head and thorax hirsute, squamous. ; 
Proboscis obsolete. Palpi hirsute, squamous, slightly ascending, not >. 
longer than half the breadth of the head; third joint extremely • 
short. Antennae smooth, rather stout, not longer than the thorax. 
Abdomen pilose, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs | 
stout, rather short, densely pilose; spurs long, stout; hind tarsi 
with long hairs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings densely 
clothed, rounded at the tips; exterior border straight, rather 
oblique; first, second and third inferior veins approximate; fourth 
remote. Hind wings with the fringe very long along the interior 
border. 
