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Show 1877.] ON T H E FISHES O F T H E L A T E ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 475 below the apex; base brownish or sordid cream-coloured, bounded externally by an oblique brown line; a second elbowed line, its upper portion represented by the discocellulars, the lower by a streak to the inner margin ; outer border (excepting at apex) greyish brown; three brown costal spots, the one nearest the base indistinct: secondaries creamy towards the base ; body creamy whitish. Wings below with blackish discocellular spots; outer border of primaries, excepting at apex, and inner edge of border of secondaries covered with dense confluent red-brown striations; secondaries with a black costal spot; body white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. One example. Cape York. Family GELECHIID^E. Genus C R Y P T O P H A S A , Lewin. 48. C R Y P T O P H A S A RUSSATA, n. sp. Primaries shining ferruginous ; the costal border snow-white ; the base, outer border, outer half of inner border, and a streak from the outer border through the discocellulars to the centre of the discoidal cell slaty greyish : secondaries pale ferruginous: head, collar, and base of antennse snow-white ; thorax ferruginous; prothorax whitish in front; abdomen pale ferruginous. Under-surface pale shining ferruginous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. One specimen. Cape York. Allied to C. rubescens, but smaller, of a more elegant form, and differently coloured. Genus CRYPTOLECHIA, Zeller. 49. CRYPTOLECHIA NIVELLA? Cryptolechia nivella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxix. p. 751 (1864). One specimen. Cape York. 5. Report on a Collection of Fishes made by Mr. C. Hart during the late Arctic Expedition. By DR. ALBERT GUNTHER, F.R.S., Keeper of the Department of Zoology, British Museum. [Received May 22, 1877.] (Plate L.) Some months after the Report on Capt. Feilden's collection of Fishes1 had been prepared, the British Museum received specimens collected by Mr. C. Hart, Naturalist on board of H.M.S. ' Discovery.' He obtained eight species within the Arctic Circle, three 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 293. |