PHYCITIDiE. 
581 
COMPSOTELES, n. g. 
Face smooth ; tongue developed. Antennae rather thick towards 
base. Labial palpi long, porrect, rather curved downwards, much 
thickened with dense smoothly appressed scales diminishing to 
obtuse apex. Maxillary palpi short, porrect, filiform. Fore wings 
2 from towards angle, 3-5 well separated, 6 remote, 8 and 9 stalked, 
10 well separated. Hindwings cell §, 2 from |, 3 and 4 short- 
stalked from angle, 5 absent, 7 out of 6 near origin, nearly 
approximated to 8 to 5 . 
Compsoteles heliochyta, n. sp. 
2 . 14 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark purple-grey mixed reddish- 
brown, base of palpi white. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 
almost straight, termen rather obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous 
overlaid red-brown ; basal |- and a broad postmedian fascia speckled 
white, latter confluent on lower half with sinuate second line of 
white speckling rising from anterior end of an elongate ochreous- 
white costal mark before apex ; obscure dots of dark groundcolour 
transversely placed on angles of cell; a few white specks near 
termen: cilia grey, with dark grey subbasal shade, "outer third 
white. Hindwings dark grey; a longitudinal ochreous-white 
streak in middle of disc from about ^ to § ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 
basal third dark grey. 
Spain (Burgos), Estepar, 2800 feet, May (R. Agenjo ) ; 1 ex. 
(Madrid Mus.). 
HOEISTAECHA, n. g. 
Face smooth ; tongue well-developed. Antennae B unipec- 
tinated, with tuft of scales at base of stalk. Labial palpi moderate, 
curved, ascending, second joint thickened with appressed scales, 
terminal joint short, pointed. Maxillary palpi very short, porrect, 
filiform. Forewings 2 from towards angle, 4 and 5 closely approxi¬ 
mated on basal third, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 closely approximated to 
9 towards base, 12 bent down at apex and terminating on 11. 
Hindwings cell 2 from |, 3 connate with 4 from angle, 5 stalked 
with 4 almost to apex, 7 out of 6 near origin, appressed to 8 to 
middle. 
Horistarcha ogmosema, n. sp. 
c?. 22 mm. Head white sprinkled grey. Palpi, thorax grey, 
somewhat mixed white. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa 
gently arched, termen obliquely rounded ; white irrorated grey 
with a few blackish scales; an incomplete black dot in disc at 
and short extremely oblique black linear mark between origins of 
veins 3 and 4, these connected by a white line, its apex shortly 
produced: cilia pale grey, a grey subbasal line. Hindwings 
whitish-grey ; a grey terminal line ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Spain (Burgos), Estepar, 2800 feet, July (R . Agenjo) ; 1 ex. 
(Madrid Mus.). 
