232 HETEROCERA. 
E. Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (5 s.) 8 341 (1879)°. Proteopieryx blackburnii: Btlr. Ann-Mag. 
NH. (5 s.) 7 898-4 sp. 26 (1881)°. Crucidosema plebejana Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 263 
sp. 1269 (1871)7; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2.110 sp. 1968 (1901) °. Crocidosema plebetana 
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 6 659-60 sp. 1 (1881) *; Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 127 sp. 174 
(1897) °: Fn. Haw. 1 675-6, 736, 752 sp. 366 Pf. 10°15 (1907) *; Knl., Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 
273 Pf. 84°45 (1907) **: Zool. 21 (54 Pal. Tortr.) 55 no. 4 Pf. 2° 148 (1908) *; Wlsm. Pr. Z. 
Soe. Lond. 1907 1002-3 sp. 131 (1908)“; Meyr. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 720 (1908) ”. 
Eucosma plebeiana Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 36 248 sp. 347 (1911) *: Tr. Linn. Soe. 
Lond. (2 s. Zool.) 14 268 sp. 5 (1911) ”. 
Types: plebeiana Z. 5 (Mus. Wlsm.) BM. ; obscura E. Wistn. ¢ 2 BM.; blackburnit Btlr. 9 BM. 
Hab. ASIA, SW-S*™, EUROPE, S-C**"™: © Althea rosea 2, 9-12, 14,16. Lavatera 
arborea»? 18, AFRICA, N-S**—Mapetras “Canaries; © Malva parvifiora ™ 
_Sr, Henena®“—Sgycnetnes?”. AMERICA, C-S-I. Central America 8, 1212, 14 
Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). South America 8 12, 14__Brazin 0" 
_Perv °-"—Arcentina *", West Indies" —Porto rico: Bayamon, I. 1899 
(A, Busck\—St. Croix: V. (W. von Hedemann ; Pontoppidan) °—Sr. Tuomas, III. 
(F. Gudmann) °—Sr. Vincent (H. H. Smith) —GRENADA, IlI-V, X. (H. H. Smith)”. 
HAWAIIA®*, AUSTRALIA * 4, — 
[This species will probably be found to occur in the cotton-growing States—there is 
at least a strong suspicion that the larva feeds on Gossypium as well as Malva, Althea, 
and Lavatera. Drnt.] 
9. Hucosma patriciana, sp. n. 
Antennae pale brownish frscous. Palpi extending scarcely beyond the frontal scales; mottled with greyish 
fuscous and whitish ochreous. Head greyish fuscous above, mottled with whitish ochreous at the sides 
and posteriorly. horas olivaceous, mixed with some ochreous scales. Jorewings with a costal fold 
extending to the middle, and a tuft of raised scales on the upper edge of the discal fold near the base ; 
whitish ochreous, mottled with dark olive-green, with a broad purplish fuscous shade commencing close 
to the base of the costa and extending to the fold as far as the end of the cell, thence attenuate upward 
and diffused in the direction of the apex; a series of whitish ochreous, outwardly oblique, geminated 
costal streaks from the middle to the apex; a roundish fuscous spot at the apex, preceded by two or 
more pale chestnut-brown lines, placed obliquely below the costal streaks; a somewhat lunate dark 
fuscous patch lies between the upper angle of the cell and the apical spot ; the ocelloid patch is somewhat 
obliquely placed, silvery grey, with a slight olivaceous median shade traversed by two dark fuscous 
streaklets ; the base of the dorsum is strongly shaded with dark purplish fuscous; cilia whitish ochreous 
a narrow dark fuscous shade running through them near their base above the middle of the termen, 
below the middle and behind the tornus they are smeared with olivaceous fuscous. Exp. al. 13 mm. 
Hindwings inclining to transparency, with a bluish iridescenee along the cell and on the costa above it, 
otherwise dark brownish with some iridescent scaling; cilia brownish cinereous, paler on their outer 
half. Abdomen brownish cinereous, a subochreous patch above it at the base, followed by a dark fuscous 
band. Legs whitish ochreous; hind tibiae neatly clothed, with two oblique transverse greyish fuscous 
shades on their outer sides; tarsi banded with brownish, broadly on the first, narrowly on the other 
joints. 
Type & (66438, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. . ‘ 
Wlsm. Det. 1898) Mus. J ounnia’} ear. (96489) US. Nat, Mus. ; (8128, 3141 
