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Show 316 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Feb- 15> position of the fuscous cloud or blotch, which in that species is situated about halfway between the costal and dorsal margins. DEPRESSARIA NUBIFERELLA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 6.) Capite et thorace ochreis; palpis ochreis, macula parva rufo-brun-nea sub articulo apicali; antennis rufo-brunneis; alis anticis ochreis, ultra plagam basalem rufo-brunneo suffusis, litura ultra medium costam nee marginem dorsalem attingente subobliqua rufo-brunnea, margine apicali rufo-brunneo, costa maculata; alis jyosticis dilute fusco-griseis. Head and thorax ochreous, sometimes with a slight reddish tinge ; palpi ochreous, recurved, reaching over the vertex, a small reddish spot on the underside near the end of the acuminate apical joint; antennae reddish brown. Fore wings ochreous, more or less suffused (beyond the pale basal patch, which does not reach to the costa) with brownish red, which forms a conspicuous darkly centred shade about the end of the cell, reaching to the costa but not to the dorsal margin. This colour is also conspicuous in a number of small spots along the costa, and in a line which runs round the apex, along the apical margin, to the anal angle; the ochreous cilia are more or less shaded with the same colour, especially at their tips ; and in some specimens is an indication of two small discal dots situated before the dark central shade, and rather above the middle of the wing, the upper one being nearer to the base than the lower. Hind wings pale greyish, sometimes with a very faint reddish tinge. Abdomen about the same colour as the fore wings. In some specimens the reddish tint suffused over the fore wings is replaced by a browner hue, rendering the pale ochreous groundcolour more conspicuous. Two specimens bred in June from larvae found feeding on a species of Hypericum, Rouge River, Oregon, May 22, 1872; others were taken in Mendocino and Shasta counties, California, in June and July 1871. This species appears to be somewhat allied to D. astrantia? (Hein.), but differs from it in the dark central shade being somewhat less oblique than in that species, in the pale thorax not being conspicuously shaded with brown, and iu the absence of the white discal dots and distinct dark marginal dots which distinguish that species. DEPRESSARIA CILIELLA (Stn.) This species occurred in North Oregon in April 1872. I met with three specimens only. The commoner European form D. ap-plana (Fab.), of which it is sometimes supposed to be merely a variety, was conspicuously absent, nor have I met with it in any American collection. DEPRESSARIA YEATIANA (Fab.). I took a single specimen towards the end of September 1871, near |