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SPECIES 3.—ACOSMETIA RUFA. Puare LIV., Fie. 5. 
Synonymes.—Phytometra rufa, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind, Ent. pl. 17, fig. 431. 
Acosmetia rufula, Stephens; Cat. ; Curtis. 
This species measures rather less than an inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are rather more 
oblong than in the preceding species, and of an uniform dull red colour, as are also the cilia ; the hind wings with 
their cilia paler, and with a row of small dots across the middle ; the head between the antennez white ; the body 
slender, Rare. Found near Whittlesea Mere, and in Norfolk. 
SPECIES 4——ACOSMETIA LINEOLA. Purarte LIV., Fie. 6. 
Synonymes.— A cosmetia lineola, Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 432. 
Somewhat resembling the last, but the fore wings shorter and reddish-gray, with a longitudinal brown line 
at the base (occasionally branching like a <) and a subapical striga of brown dots; the veins at the apex dusky, 
cilia reddish ; hind wings paler, with a slightly-marked striga of small obscure dots near the middle. Rare. 
Taken on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. 
SPECIES 5.—ACOSMETIA ARCUOSA. Puarte LIV., Fie. 7. 
Synonyme.— Phytometra arcuosa, Haworth; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 433. 
This species measures 1] inch or rather more in the expanse of the fore wings, which are dirty whitish clay- 
coloured ; the costa with several brown dots, of which the last towards the apex is the largest, and with two 
strigee of minute brown dots, the first straight and preceding, and the second curved and behind the middle of the 
wing ; between these strige in the middle of the wing is a single brown dot ; and towards the apex an undulated 
pale striga; the cilia pale; the hind wings with their cilia brownish; the strigee of dots vary in intensity in 
different specimens. Found in various places round London, but uncommon. 
SPECIES 6.—ACOSMETIA MORRISII. 
Synonymes.—Acosmetia Morrisii, Dale in the ‘‘ Naturalist,’ vol. ii, p. 88, and Errata. 
This species measures about an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which, as well as the hind wings and 
body, are entirely of a pale whitish straw-colour ; the costa of the fore wings slightly brownish. Named by 
Mr. Dale after the Rev. F. T. Morris, who discovered it. It has been taken several times on the Hast Sea 
Cliff, Charmouth, Dorset, at the beginning of July. We are indebted to Beverley R. Morris, Esq. for the loan 
of two specimens, differing somewhat in size. 
ScopELopus Inops, Stephens (Phytometra scopulepes, Haworth), is omitted, as being a probable native of 
Georgia, in North America. It is remarkable on account of its hind legs producing brush-like fascicles of long 
hairs ; the fore wings are clay-coloured, with a slender pyramidal brownish fascia near the apical margin of the 
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wings. A specimen was described by Mr. Haworth as being m Dr. Leach’s collection, from the Duchess of 
Portland’s English cabinet. 

STILBIA, Srepuens. 
The fore wings in this genus fold round the body, like those of the Lithosiz, and are very shining as well as 
y, which is slender and linear ; the 
stigmatiferous ; they are weak, and comparatively of large size to the bod 
palpi nearly horizontal, with the terminal joint very small; the antenne slender and setaceous ; the thorax not 
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crested ; and the abdomen not tufted down the back. The caterpillat and transformations are not known. 
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