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Show 320 LORD W A L S I N G H A M O N [Feb. 15, and four bright metallic steel-white dots set in an elongate black patch above the anal angle. The first steel-grey streak, which is much dilated towards the base of the costa, reaches obliquely to the outer extremitv of a steel-grey patch at the base of the dorsal margin ; beyond it, before the middle of the wing, is a narrow, straight, pale steel-grey fascia with rather darkened margins; slightly beyond the middle of the costa is another pale steel-grey mark, expanding immediately below the costa and diffused into a pale greyish ochreous patch, much occupied by slender, transverse, blackish fuscous streaks ; beyond this, again, is a bright steel-blue streak, whitish towards the costa, and reaching to a whitish interruption in the fuscous cilia above the middle of the apical margin ; a shorter and paler steel-grey streak lies immediately before the apex, but does not quite reach the apical margin. The costa is narrowly shaded with blackish fuscous, especially beyond the middle. The elongate black patch above the anal angle, containing four steel-white metallic dots, stretches from the dorsal margin before the anal angle to near the middle of the apical margin, in which direction it is somewhat attenuated; there are two small black marginal dots below it. Underside with two white costal streaks towards the apex, preceded by two white costal spots, and with a short white streak from the apical margin. Expanse 17 millim. This species differs from Glyphipteryx loricatella (Tr.), in the more rounded hind wings, which are not indented beyond the abdominal angle, as well as in the absence of brilliant metallic endings to the costal streaks, which, however, are the same in number and position. It differs also in the absence of two white dorsal spots, and in the black patch being narrower and running obliquely instead of parallel to the dorsal margin. The hind wings are paler, and the fore wings a lighter orange-colour than in the European species. In general appearance it exhibits some approach to some of the Hydrocampida?. The small head and the form of the palpi, as well as the character of the ornamentation, cannot fail to remind us of Cataclysta (H.-S.) and some allied Asiatic genera. I have met with only one specimen, taken on Mount Shasta, California, in August 1871, and slightly denuded at the time of its capture. GLYPHIPTERYX CALIFORNLE, sp.nov. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 11.) Capite, thorace et antennis ochreo-griseis; palpis griseo-albidis; alis anticis subceneis brunneo suffusis, litura dorsali basis albida, strigis, quinque costalibus, una dorsali, albidis brunneo utriuque marginatis et roseo chalybeo finitis, macula dorsali albida et tribus oblique supra earn dispositis roseo-chalybeis, una supra angulum analem et una sub apice (ciliis albido interruptis) roseo-chalybeis, ciliis a?neo-brunneis albido terminatis; alis posticis brunneis ; tibiis et tarsis posticis brunneis, albido annulatis. Head, thorax, and antennae yellowish grey ; palpi greyish |