''Holophysis quadrimaculata'' is a

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of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1910. It is found in

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(Tabasco). The

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is about 8 mm. The forewings are dark brownish fuscous, with four steel-grey costal streaks, all inclining a little outwards. The first, near the base, reaching over the fold and the second at one-fourth not reaching the fold. The third, median, reaching to the lower angle of the cell and scarcely separated from a diffused patch of the same colour before and beneath it. The fourth at three-fourths of the wing-length, shorter than the others, a line of steel-grey scales preceding the termen. The hindwings are greyish fuscous.Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 30

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