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LavePvNA — L. MurtJeldteUa, n. sp. 



A single captured specimen received by nie, from Prof. Riley and 

 Miss Murtfeldt, in perfect condition, seems nearer to L. propinguella 

 than any other species known to me, but the resemblance is not very 

 close. Form of palpi nearly as in L. ochraeella, Ins. Brit., Vol. 3. 

 It has the head and palpi silvery white, the second palpial joint brown 

 on the outer surface, and the third dusted with brown beneath, the 

 autennffi are dai'k brown. Anterior wings brown, faintly streaked or 

 marbled with ocherous. There is an oval white spot on the base of the 

 dorsal margin, running lengthwise along the margin, but wide enough 

 to reach the fold ; a little further back is a white dorsal spot partly 

 grizzled by brown scales, and connected with the first spot by a faint 

 ocherous line along the fold, the wing between these white spots and 

 the costal margin is brown faintly streaked with ocherous, and from 

 the second spot to the costa, in some lights, is indistinctly suffused with 

 grayish ; just behind the middle of the wing is a nearly semi-circular 

 ocherous line convex towards the dorsal margin, the hinder part of 

 this line or narrow band is more distinct than the anterior portion and 

 contains or rather is interupted by a short white longitudinal dash, 

 placed near the end of the cilia ; a little further back is an irregular 

 ocherous spot, containing a short longitudinal brown dash, fol- 

 lowed by a white one, or by some white scales, the space between 

 the black dash and the first white one is brown : in some lights, suf- 

 fused with hoary, and on the extreme costa just before the cilia is a 

 small hoary spot indistinctly connected with the whitish scales be- 

 hind the black dash ; behind this the wing is brown with three min- 

 ute white costal streaks in the cilia and one longer slightly oblique 

 apical one, all of which are only visible in certain directions ; costal 

 and apical cilia brown, dorsal cilia silvery gray. The thorax is white 

 with a pale purplish fuscus spot in front, the legs are silvery yel- 

 lowish behind, and brown in front annulate with white. Abdomen 

 brown above, silvery beneath with the tuft yellowish silvery. 



Gelech r a — G. Discooeella — C ii a m . 



From an examination of a single specimen given to me by Prof. 

 Riley and Miss Murtfeldt, I find that the two specimens, from which 

 the description was prepared, are a little worn. In the perfect speci- 

 men, the so-called ocherous streaks within the inner margin are not 

 present, except in the fold ; the discal brown spot not so easily dis- 



