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Show 404 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, 125. STEGANOPTYCHA? NEGLIGENS,n.sp. (PlateXLIII.fig. 18.) Primaries sordid white, clouded with yellow ; a broad oblique subbasal blackish band, not reaching the costal margin ; a broad slightly angulated oblique central band, yellowish irrorated with grey above the median vein, becoming reddish-brown below it; the apical half of costal margin and the outer margin spotted with ferruginous, fringe grey ; secondaries brown, costal area white; head white, collar and shoulders yellow, tegulae whitish ; thorax and abdomen brown : primaries below pale brown, costal and external borders alternately white and brown ; secondaries white, the veins, abdominal area, and a streak through the cell brown, fringe brown crossed by a central pale line ; body below white. Expanse of wings 4^ lines. Canterbury plains. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. Seems allied to S. dealbana ; but the primaries are slightly narrower. CHOREUTID^E. 126. O R O S A N A ATRA, n. sp. Shining purplish brown; primaries with a spot close to the base, a zigzag transverse subbasal line, a spot at the end of the cell, and a sigmoidal discal line from costa to inner margin black; a dot beyond the cell, and two subapical marginal dots, creamy whitish ; collar below clothed with white hairs. Expanse of wings 4| lines. Canterbury plains. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. The darkest known species of this little Australian genus. TlNEITES. TlNEID^E. 127. T I N E A RECTELLA. Tinea rectella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 482 (1863). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 128. TINEA PAL^ESTRICA, n. sp. Primaries with the basal third dark brown, remainder of the wing sandy whitish; a large round spot beyond the cell, encircled by a complete series of smaller spots, all grey; beyond this a longitudinal streak of grey, bounded on each side by two black dots ; fringe, excepting at external angle, brownish; secondaries shining sandy whitish ; head snow-white, tufted ; thorax brown, a yellow spot on the centre of the prothorax; abdomen testaceous: wings below shining testaceous; body rather darker testaceous. Expanse of wings 8 lines. Coll. Dr. Hector. Closely allied to the European T. tapetzella. PLUTELLID^;. 129. CEROSTOMA FULGURATELLA. Cerostoma fulguratella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 548 (1863). Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. |