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segmental margins, 3 basal segments suffused whitish-yellowish. 
Forewings grey-whitish, scattered black specks; first discal stigma 
rather large, black, surrounded with clearer white suffusion, plical 
and second discal usually only indicated by whiter suffusion, seldom 
by minute black dots, plical obliquely before first discal; an 
angulated whiter sub terminal shade sometimes visible : cilia whitish, 
some black scales at base, seldom forming distinct black spots, two 
faint greyish shades and scattered minute blackish specks. Hind- 
wings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Texas, Alpine, 5000 feet, April; 10 ex. 
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Gelechia epigypsa, n. sp. 
3 . 17 mm. Head, thorax ochreous-whitish, a few dark fuscous 
specks on shoulder. Palpi whitish, base blackish (terminal joint 
broken). Forewings ochreous-white, faintly tinged grey in disc 
and posteriorly, a few scattered black specks ; costal edge black 
near base; black dots beneath fold near base and at and one 
above and between these; discal stigmata small, black: cilia 
whitish, some black scales at base, two faint greyish lines and 
scattered minute blackish specks. Hindwings whitish-grey, more 
whitish and thinly scaled towards base, greyer along termen and 
towards apex ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Texas, Alpine, 5000 feet, April; 1 ex. 
Mometa clilidanopa, n. sp. 
3 . 17 mm. Head, thorax light yellow-ochreous, shoulders dark 
fuscous. Palpi second joint golden-purple, with anterior ferruginous 
line, terminal joint blackish, tip pale yellowish. Forewings purple- 
blackish, somewhat speckled ochreous-whitish; markings light 
yellow-ochreous, viz. a streak from middle of base upcurved beneath 
costa to an irregular oblique transverse fasciate blotch in middle 
of disc not reaching margins, a subtriangular spot on costa at 
and a cloudy dot on tornus opposite: cilia glossy grey. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia pale grey. 
Uganda, bred in October from larva in bolls of Hibiscus ( Hancock ); 
1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Platyedra erebodoxa, n. sp. 
£ . 17-19 mm. Head brownish-ochreous. Palpi slenderer than 
in gossypiella, pale brownish-ochreous with dark fuscous lateral 
streak externally throughout, and one on inner side of terminal 
joint. Thorax light brownish-ochreous, shoulders suffused dark 
fuscous. Forewings termen obliquely rounded (less oblique than in 
gossyjpiella ); light brownish-ochreous irregularly mixed dark 
fuscous; a dark bluish-fuscous spot on base of costa; dorsum 
narrowly suffused dark fuscous; a suffused dark fuscous transverse 
fascia before middle; posterior \ wholly dark fuscous except a pale 
brownish-ochreous spot on costa at | and a dot on tornus opposite : 
cilia dark grey. Hindwings upper part of termen less oblique than 
