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Show 322 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Feb. 15, ing four (sometimes three) bright metallic spots, above which the wing is sprinkled with greyish scales. Cilia brown at the base, whitish grey beyond. Underside with some slight costal spots and one costal and one apical streak white. Hind wings brown; cilia the same. Expanse 11-13 millim. Two specimens taken near San Francisco in May, and three near Mount Shasta, California, at the end of July 1871. GLYPHIPTERYX UNIFASCIATA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 13.) Capite et antennis sordide grisescenti-brunneis; palpis sordide albidis, brunneo maculatis et annulatis; alis anticis brunneis, striga dorsali prope basin externe obliqua, fascia subobliqua ante medium et strigulis ultra medium tribus costalibus et una dorsali albis, serie punctorum quinque chalybeo-metallicis apud angulum analem nigro succinctis, ciliis brunneis albido terminatis, sub apice albido interruptis, macula roseo-chalybea adjacente ; posticis brunneis. Head and antennae dull greyish brown; palpi dirty whitish, spotted or annulated with brownish. Fore wings brown, au outwardly oblique white dorsal streak reaching about halfway across the wing; a slightly oblique white fascia before the middle, tending outwards from the costa to the dorsal margin, followed by four rather straight white costal streaks, of which the first is the longest and reaches nearly to a meeting with an opposite straight white dorsal streak ; a series of four shining metallic dots in an elongate black marginal patch near the anal angle, above the first of which is a fifth detached shining metallic spot ; below the apex, joining a white streak in the cilia is a rosy metallic spot; some bright rosy metallic scales lie also about the ends of the white costal streaks. Hind wings brown. Expanse 10-11 millim. Two specimens near San Francisco, M a y 19, 1871. It differs from the preceding species {G. bifasciata) in having four instead of three costal streaks on the upperside, and three instead of one on the underside, also in the first fascia extending only half across the wing. GLYPHIPTERYX QUINQUEFERELLA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 14.) Capite et palpis griseis; antennis griseis, longe ciliatis, interne albido punctatis; alis anticis {apice rotundato, basi flavida) griseo et fusco atomosis, signum numerate Romanum Y fiavidum, griseo marginatum in medio ferentibus, serie marginali punctorum quatuor nitide chalybeorum apud angulum analem, puncto quoque antice latius nigro circumdaio ; posticis brunneo-fuscis. Head and palpi grey. Antennae grey, obscurely dotted inwardly with whitish, clothed with rather long cilia. |