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Show 86 LORD WALSINGHAM ON N E W TINEID.E. [Feb. 17, described two new species of the genus Lampronia, Zell., from North America, of which no examples, as far as I am able to ascertain, have hitherto been observed in that country. Genus HYPONOMEUTA, Zeller. H Y P O N O M E U T A LAPIDELLUS, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. I.) Capite, antennis et palpis dilute griseis; alis anticis saturate plumbeo-griseis, punctis sex in dimidio basali, quatuor in dimidio apicali nigris pallide submarginatis, octo in marginibus apicali costali dispositis ; posticis subgriseis; abdomine ochreo. Head stone-grey, palpi projecting scarcely half the length of the head beyond it, the apical joint rather more than half the length of the second, both stone-grey. Antennae the same. Thorax with two black spots in front and one behind ; the wing-coverts tipped with black. Fore wings rather shining, cold stone-grey, with eighteen black spots, indistinctly and narrowly pale-margined, arranged as follows-two rather elongate, below the basal third of the costa, two on the lower edge of the cell, also before the middle, one on the middle of the cell beyond them, and one near the base of the dorsal margin, with a group of four on the outer third of the wing, which are followed by eight marginal spots, of which five belong to the apical and three to the costal margin. Hind wings pale greyish. Abdomen and tuft ochreous. Legs grey. Expanse 19 millims. Larva pale yellowish ochreous, with a double row of elongate black spots just touching each other on the middle of each segment, and connected by a slender black subdorsal line, except between the third and fourth segment, where it is interrupted by a band of the pale ground-colour. Below the subdorsal line is a row of reniform black spots on each segment after the fourth. Head black ; second segment with two brownish-fuscous plates divided by a yellowish line. Anterior legs black; prolegs yellowish ochreous ; a few single scattered hairs on each segment. Received from the Rev. H . Hocking, who found the larvae at an elevation of about 4500 ft. near Dharmsala, July 12th, feeding on "soongroo" (wild salvia). The moths emerged on the 1st of August. Genus PSECADIA, Zeller. P S E C A D I A ? C U P R E O N I V E L L A , sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) Capite et thorace niveis ,* palpis subpurpureis, albo-acuminatis ; anticis cupreo-violaccis, guttis sex distinctis aliis aliquot confusis irregulariter dispersis niveis, cosice basi ccerulea ; posticis griseo-brunneis, basi albida; abdominegrisescenti-brunneo, flocco anali aurantiaco. Head, thorax, and patagia white. Antennae pale greyish brown, the basal joint sliglitly thickened, dark purplish. Palpi slender, the apical joint rather more than half the length of the second joint, purplish, with the extreme tip white; second joint purplish above, white |