[November, 



iutevvuptod in middle by a short palo yellow projertion, wlience n -whito line 

 runs along tevnien to apex : cilia grey, with a whitish spot beyond band, and a 

 tine white bar at apex. Hind wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



JJEXti.vTi, Pusa, bred in July iVoni larvae mining blotches in leaves 

 of bean {Fletcher). Extremely like' lli/jp'odes, but distinguished by 

 uniform dai'k grey (not yellowish-mixed) al)domen, and })ale oebreous- 

 yelK)w (not orange-yellow) band of fore wings. 



CosmoplerijX hamhusiie, n. sp. 



cJ 2. 8-10 mm. ilead and thorax dark fuscous with three very fine 

 white lines, face pale silvery-bronze. Palpi white lined with black. Antennae 

 bbick lined with white, three or four apical joints wiiite, then four black, one 

 white, ouf^ black, two white, two black, three white. Abdomen grey, in S 

 bronzy-shining. Fore wing- very narrow-lanceolate, apex long-caudate; dark 

 fnscons, apical area beyond band grey; a very fine white subcostal line from 

 base to beyond \, diverging from costa posteriorly, and extremely tine median 

 and subdorsal moderate lines, median not nearly reaching base or band, sub- 

 dorsal posterior, approaching band ; costal edge shortly white before bund ; 

 a broad pale ochreous-yellow postniedinn ti-ansverse band, margined by uiirrow 

 pale golden-metallic fasciae, first slightly outwards-oblique, followed by a 

 black dot above middle and enlarged on lower half into an unusually raised 

 round spot projecting posteriorly, second somewhat inwards-oblique from 

 costa, interrupted above middle by a pale yellow projection, whence a white 

 line runs along ternien to apex : cilia light grey, with whitish spot on costa 

 beyond band. Ilind wings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Eexgal, Pusa, bred in October from larvae mining blotebes m 

 leaves of bamboo (FlefcJ/er). Nearest S2>icuh(t(i, but the median line 

 of basal area does not nearly reach base as in that s])eeies ; the a])ieal 

 area much lighter than ground-colour is a noticeable feature, Init is 

 apparent though less marked in sj)/ciihif(i also; in the allied iiHii//j)it- 

 hiris the apical area is concolorous with the basal. A pujia-ease sent 

 (very little discomposed by the emergence of iuuigo through a small 

 slit) shows only two abdominal segments free, the rest fixed, wing-cases 

 reaching to end of }»enultimate segment. 



'i'hornliangor, ^Marlborough. 

 October \Oth, li)17. 



An alien id large. — It may perhaps be worth menliouing that on a sunny 

 morning in Jiuie last I was astounded to see a tropical iV^JiVzo in good con- 

 ditio); on the llowers in my rockery. It was black, the hind wings with light 

 sijaces between the veins, some ciini.-on about the tornus, and 1 believe no tail. 

 I hnst(Micd In the house tit call my son, but on my return it had disiijipeared. 

 Some \enrsii;.o I recorded tlu^ introduction ol'a South American >Syntoniid by 

 the local I'ruil shop, and I liii\e had tro])ical spiders and eockreaches from the 

 same source; possibly this I'apilio may ha\e been imported as a pu])a by the 

 same shop.— E. Mkvimck, Thornhanger, Marlborough: Sept. 'J'Jtid, VJlT. 



