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Show 90 LORD WALSINGHAM ON NEW TINEIDJ5. [Feb. 17, tremity of the tarsi spotted with blackish brown. Underside of wings uniformly dull smoky brown. Expanse 15 millims. cS 2 • Taken on the Siskiyou Mountains, on the borders of California and Oregon, June 8th, 1872, at an elevation of about 6000 ft. A very distinct and interesting little species of the group to which belon"* P. chrysopyga and P. monticola. PSECADIA ERMINEELLA, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 7.) Capite et thorace griseo-albidis, hoc uno, illo quatuor punctis nigris impositis; alis anticis griseo-albidis, maculis tredecim mediis, decern minoribus marginalibus nigris ; posticis dilute griseis, ciliis pallidioribus. Head greyish white, with a black spot above between the antennae. Palpi greyish white, with a black band round the base of the apical joint. Antennae blackish. Thorax greyish white, with four black spots, one in front, one at each side, and one larger and more conspicuous than the others behind. Fore wings greyish white, with thirteen black spots on their surface, some of which are elongate, besides ten smaller marginal spots, of which four are on the costal, six on the apical margin ; the first black spot is at the base, beneath the costa, the second on the costa; slightly beyond these two, somewhat diffused beneath them, is a smaller one at the base of the cell, followed by four more along its lower edge, of which the second is rather lower than the others; the two largest and most conspicuous spots are elongate, and situated on the cell ; these are followed by a smaller one beyond it, and above them are the three remaining subcostal spots. Hind wings pale greyish, with whitish-grey cilia. Abdomen and legs whitish grey. Underside of fore wings brownish grey. Expanse 22 millims. Received from the Rev. H. Hocking, from Dharmsala, in the Punjaub. PSECADIA HOCKINGELLA, sp. nov. (Plate XII. figs. 8, 9, & 9 a.) Capite et thorace dilute schistaceo-griseis, palpis albido-griseis, nigro annulatis; alis anticis dilute schistaceo-griseis, punctis elongatis et strigulis nigris in longitudinem diverse dispositis, punctis duodecim marginalibus; abdomine cum tibiis posticis flavis, tarsis posticis albo nigroepie annulatis. Head pale slaty grey. Palpi whitish grey, with two black annulations on the second and one on the apical joint. Antennae dusky greyish, the basal joint touched with black. Thorax pale slaty grey, with six black spots, besides two more minute ones at the base of the patagia, arranged as follows-one in front, one on each side, and three placed in the form of a triangle behind. Fore wings smooth, rather shining, pale slaty grey, with numerous black slender streaks and elongate black spots, a black elongate spot at the base of the costa, six slender subcostal streaks, below them a long slender streak running from before the middle of the wing nearly |