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10 Mr. Curtis’s Descriptions of some hitherto nondescript 
Gen. 759%. GLossosoma Curt. 
Male: wings with a subscutiform discoidal cell in each, superior with a 
knot or fold at the base clothed with rigid hairs above, concave beneath ; 
first pair of spurs on the intermediate tibiz at the middle, those on the pos- 
terior near the apex ; a large horny subdepressed lobe attached to the un- 
derside of the sixth segment of the abdomen, with a smaller one on the 
rete joint ; female, with the intermediate tibiz and tarsi very much 
dilated, 
1. Boltoni Curt. 
10 lines : antennz, head, thorax and abdomen fuscous castaneous, the former 
annulated with and the latter tipped with ochre; wings pubescent, pale 
fuscous, superior with the callous lump at the base in the male, brown, 
clothed with black hairs; stigma and a spot opposite on the inferior mar- 
gin fuscous, and each nervure terminated by a spot of the same colour on 
the margin alternating with ochreous spots, with an indistinct row behind 
them, and two or three near the disc of the same colour; inferior wings 
gray and transparent at the base. 
Gen. 760. Tinopres Lea. MSS. 
Maxillary palpi long and alike in both sexes; antenne shorter than the 
wings and slender; abdomen short, acuminated and horny in the female ; 
four posterior tibize with two pair of long spurs on each, first pair near to 
the base in the intermediate, and considerably below the middle in the pos- 
terior tibia. 
A. Wings long and rather narrow, superior with a small discoidal cell and 
four furcate ones on the posterior margin. 
5. luridus Curt. 
9 lines: dirty ochreous; head, thorax and abdomen castaneous brown; 
nervures of superior wings dark brown, inferior wings hyaline and iridescent; 
legs fulvous. 
B. Wings shorter, more rounded at the apex, superior very pubescent, the 
nervures very indistinct. 
4. pusillus? Fab. Ent. Syst. 2. 81. 33. 
Gen. 760°. Anticyra Curt. 
Antenne rather longer than the body, porrected, not slender; head very 
hairy on the crown; maxillary palpi long and stout ; abdomen short, with 
two large horny lobes at the apex in the male; wings long and narrow, 
four posterior tibiae with two pair of long spurs, first pair approaching the 
base in the intermediate, and below the middle in the others. 
1, gracilipes Curt. 
5; lines: pale fuscous; antennz whitish, annulated with black ; head gri- 
seous ; eyes black ; wings lanceolate, superior glossy ochreous; legs slen- 
der, pale dull fulvous. 
2. latipes Curt. 
6 lines: similar to the last, but the wings are narrower, the superior more 
rounded, the inferior more pointed ; abdomen carneous ; intermediate tibize 
and tarsi dilated, 
Gen. 760°. AGapetus Curt. 
Antenne not longer than the body, stout and divaricating ; abdomen of 
male with a long incurved spine arising from the centre of the belly ; apex 
acuminated in the female; wings comparatively short and rounded ; four 
