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Show 136 LORD WALSINGHAM ON Pa n 1 ' 78. CffiLOSTATHMA, Clem. Type, Ccelostathma discopunetata, Clem. (Clem.). C<ELOSTATHMA, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 355 (I860) = *AMPHISA, Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 22 (1882), nee Crt. I cannot agree with Professor Fernald in sinking Gcelostathma as a synonym of Amphisa, Crt., which has veins 7 an 8 ot the fore wings stalked and 9 separate, whereas Ccelostathma has 7 and 8 stalked out of 9. 198. CCELOSTATHMA PARALLELANA, sp. n. Antennce biciliate, 2\ ; cream-colour. Pcdpi projecting rather more than the length of the head beyond it; cream-coloured; second joint shaded with fawn-brown externally. Head and thorax cream-colour. Fore wings and cilia cream-coloured, with a dark fawn-brown band from before the middle of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, variable in breadth and distinctness, sometimes diffused or dilated outwards below the middle; this is followed bv a second narrower band, commencing on the costa at one-fourth from the apex and reaching to the tornus; a single black dot lies at the end of the cell between veins 5 and 6. Lxp al 12 mm. Hind wings pale fawn-grey with a slight reddish tinge. Abdomen cream-coloured, shaded with grey across the middle. Legs creamy whitish. Type, 3 Mus. Hdm.; 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 4 IV.-14 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). " The larva feeds on Mimosa " (Hedemann). This species differs from Ccelostathma discopunctana, Clem., in the form of the outer band, which is almost parallel with the first instead of being conspicuously curved inward at its upper extremity. Along the costa the intensity of the bands is variable, and in one female they are almost entirely obliterated, the wing-colour becoming pale fawn-ochreous instead of creamy. I cannot, however, doubt that it belongs to the same species. III. PHALONIANM. 79. PHALONIA, Hb. = -fCocHYLis, Tr., Stgr. Cat.; %CONCHYLIS, Sdf., Fern., &c. 199. PHALONIA ICHTHYOCHROA, sp. n. Antennce whitish cinereous. Palpi projecting nearly the length of the head beyond it; whitish, shaded with brown externally. Head hoary. Thorax shining silvery whitish. Fore wings shining silvery whitish; a rust-brown shade along the base of the costa not extending to the dorsum ; a broken fascia commencing on the costa beyond the middle consists of a dark-margined rust-brown spot at its upper extremity and a larger rust-brown shade on its lower half, extending somewhat imvards and containing one or two patches of blackish scales ; the apical |