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Show 302 LORD WALS1NGHAM ON [Feb. 15, PHRYGANEOPSIS BRUNNEA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXV. fig. 1, la, 16, lc). Capite ochreo, palpis brunneis, antennis sordidis; alis anticis ciliis chocolate brunneis, purpureo vel vindi-purpureo subnitidis, costa dimidia exteriore dilute ochraceo maculata, puncta et puncto in medio marginis dorsalis dilute ochraceis; alis posticis 3 brunneis, $ subpurpureis. Head roughly clothed, ochreous ; palpi dark brown, slightly depressed, extending three times the length of the head beyond it. Antennae pubescent in both sexes, dirty whitish brown above in the $ . Fore wings and cilia dark chocolate-brown, with a gloss of purplish in the 3 and of greenish purple in the $, especially noticeable where any abrasion of the scales has occurred ; the costa is faintly marked on its outer half with two or three groups of pale ochreous scales, the last of which lies above the apex at the commencement of the costal cilia ; there is a spot of the same colour on the middle of the dorsal margin, with a small pale discal spot above and beyond it. Hind wings brown in 3 > purplish in the $ . Legs and abdomen of the same colour; the feet slightly paler. Expanse, 3 20, $ 25 millim. Three specimens (2 3, 1 $ ) on the coast of Klamath county, California, June 1872. Genus CALANTICA (Zeller). CALANTICA POLITA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXV. fig. 2.) Capite crinito et thorace candidis ; antennis (excepta basi Candida) cinereis ; palpis decumbentibus, articulo secundo cinereo, candido; alis anticis nitidis, subca?ruleo-candidis, puncto fine cellula? fusco, costa? basi anguste cinerea, strigula obliqua post medium cinerea, ciliis subcinereis; posticis saturate plumbeo-cinereis, ciliis dilutioribus. Head roughly clothed, together with the thorax shining white; the palpi depressed, having the second joint cinereous, the apical joint thickly clothed, white above, touched with cinerous beneath. Antennae white at the base, cinereous beyond. Fore wings shining white, with a faint bluish tinge ; a fuscous dot at the end of the cell; the base of the costa narrowly cinereous, and a small cinereous oblique streak beyond the middle of the dorsal margin, but preceding the discal spot to which it points ; this streak, in some specimens, is obsolete ; the cilia are slightly tinged with cinereous, and in some specimens have a row of very faint minute cinereous dots at their base, along the apical margin. Hind wings very pale greyish cinereous, with paler cilia. Underside of the fore wings cinereous, of the hind wings greyish. Expanse 15 millim. The only points of structure in which this species appears to differ from the European representatives of the genus Calantica are the greater length of its palpi and the less thickened tibia? of the first pair of legs. |