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Show 84 ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING [Jan. 4, costal border and discocellulars and yellowish fringe; body below fuliginous brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. _ The above description is made from a specimen obtained by Dr. Cunningham at Sandy Point, Terra del Fuego, the five examples sent home by Dr. Coppinger being all too much worn for description. He notes the following habitats and dates of capture :- a. Cockle Cove • Feb. 13, 1878. b. Latitude Cove, flew on board Jan. 13, l»/y. c. Puerto Bueno, flew on board Jan. 19,_ „ d. Tom Bay, flew on board Jan. 1879. e. Wolsey Sound, W . coast of Patagonia, flew on board. ORTHOSIIDjE. 7. PACHNOBIA COPPINGERI, sp. n. Allied to P. alpina. Primaries above ashy grey, slightly tinted with pink at the base ; two subbasal spots, a broad internally bisi-nuated, externally ill-defined belt (enclosing the orbicular spot) just before the middle, and two subparallel angulated and zigzag discal lines, dark slaty grey; discoidal spots brown, with whitish borders and blackish margins; a marginal series of <-shaped black markings: secondaries pale sericeous smoky brown, becoming slightly darker towards the outer margin; discocellulars dusky, costal border ash-grey at apex; a marginal dark slaty-grey line formed of confluent depressed-triangular spots; fringe traversed by a whitish basal line : body grey; thorax slightly tinted with pink ; abdomen with whitish basal tufts, anal tuft testaceous. Primaries below ash-grey ; discal lines indicated, but less distinct than above, and not zigzag: secondaries sericeous greyish white; a discocellular spot and arched discal stripe blackish; a slender blackish marginal line: pectus white; legs ash-grey, tarsi of middle pair brown, tibiae and tarsi of posterior pair almost wholly laky brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. Puerto Bueno; flew on board, Jan. 19, 1879. LARENTIID^E. 8. SCOTOSIA, sp. One specimen, very much worn and rubbed, the pattern being entirely lost. Puerto Bueno, November 5, 1879. 9. ClDARIA, Sp. A single shattered example, which appears to be allied to the European C. fulvata. Puerto Bueno. The ORTHOPTERA are represented by five examples, three of which are immature and referable apparently to a species of Xiphocera ; the two others belong to the genera Gfidipoda and Ctypohippus. |