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and steel-blue lines, and six whitish ochreous costal streaks, of which the first, scarcely before the 
middle, is reduplicated ; this: sends out a steel-blue line obliquely ‘to beyond the middle of the cell, 
_ whence it is angulated backward to the middle of the dorsum, forming the outer boundary of the plain 
basal half; beyond it is a black line, more sharply angulated beyond the end of the cell, and followed 
by an angulated blue line arising from the third costal streak ; other streaks and patches of these two 
colours are nearer to the lower half of the termen; cilia shining, steel-grey, with a brilliant blue 
iridescence in some lights; underside brilliantly iridescent, exhibiting green, blue, and red reflections, 
the costa with five white streaks. Evp.al.12mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous ;- cilia blue-grey, 
having a darker basal shade; underside brilliantly iridescent, exhibiting green, blue, and red reflections. 
Abdomen dark purplish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, with pale tarsal annulations. 
Type 3 (66441) Mus. W1sm: (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. = ; 
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (#. #. Snvith). Unique. 
4. Cydia eudesma, sp. n. | | 
Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi short, slender, scarcely projecting beyond the face; white. Head and 
Thorax steel-grey ; face whitish ochreous. Forewings steel-grey at the base, with a faint golden tinge, 
shading into rich umber-brown on the outer two-thirds; a series of seven costal streaks commencing 
before the middle, the first four oblique, the outer three moderately straight, golden yellowish on the 
costa, becoming silvery, or steel-blue, at their lower ends; a broad triangular lilac-metallic medio-dorsal 
patch containing three umber-brown streaks; a double metallic line standing upright at the tornus, 
‘the space between it and the dorsal patch pale straw-colour, with three umber-brown transverse lines, 
partially connected by a broken upright line; a lilac spot immediately below the apex; cilia shining 
steel-grey, with a slight lilac tinge. Hap. al. 8-8-5 mm. Hindwings brownish, paler at their base ; 
cilia bluish grey. Abdomen shining, steel-grey. Leys whitish, tarsi grey. 
Type 2 (66462) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (66463) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith) : TABASCO : Teapa, III. 
(1. H. Smith). Three specimens. © : oo, 
5. Cydia pulchella, sp. n., Dnt. (Tab. VIL. fig. 34.) 4 
Antennae fuscous, narrowly barred above with pale yellowish. Palpi and Head fuscous, mixed with pale 
yellowish. Thoraw fuscous, transversely streaked with pale yellowish. Forewings fuscous, ‘closely 
strigulate transversely with pale yellowish, the terminal area becoming obscured with fuscous, and with 
three or four oblique fuscous streaks, followed: by lines of metallic leaden blue scaling, on the outer half 
of the costa; a large pyriform, leaden blue, tornal patch is attenuate upward and connected with the 
second metallic costal line; there is also a small metallic patch below the apex, followed by a sub- 
terminal line of obscure, round, dark fuscous dots; cilia shining, pale fuscous, with a dark fuscous line 
near their base. Exp. al.8mm. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia fuscous, with a darker line toward 
their base. Abdomen dark fuscous, with slightly paler transverse bands, Legs fuscous, with paler 
tarsal spots. 
Type 3 (66465) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
6. Cydia deshaisiana Lucas. (Tab. VII. fig. 35.) 
tdehaisiana Lucas (erreur typographique) |’, tdeshaysiana Lucas, tdeshaiziana Lutur.; =saltitans 
Wstwd., tsaltatoria Smrvl.—(“ Jumping Seeds” ; “ Brincadores ”), . ; 
[moving seeds : Hooker Jr. Bot. 6 204-6 (1854)'; Wstwd. Pr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s. 8) 1854 27 
34-5 (1855) *;. Nwmn. Pr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (ns. 8) 1854 57-8 (1855)°; Wstwd. Pr. Ashmol. 
Soc. Oxf. 3 137-9 (1857)*; Lettsom Pr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (u.s. 4) 1857 90 (1858) *; Lucas 
