78 [September, 



as the wings, slightly seiTatecl towards the apex ; brown, the upper 

 side of the basal portion, and the whole of the under-side, annulated 

 with whitish. Palpi long and brown. The upper side of the head and 

 pro-thorax with golden yellow pubescence. The first pair of legs 

 brown, the others yellowish, with brown tarsi ; an indistinct brownish 

 spot at the base of the posterior femora ; the posterior tibia) slightly 

 ciliated externally ; the intermediate tarsi of the female flattened, and 

 slightly dilated. Anterior wings narrow, a little dilated towards the 

 apex, which is oval ; blackish-grey, sprinkled with rather brilliant 

 golden-yellow quadrangular spots, which are often confluent ; a series 

 towards the costal margin, a broad maculated band before the apex, 

 and a row of larger spots on the dorsal margin. Posterior wings grey, 

 the basal two-thirds of the anterior margin yellowish. The superior 

 appendices of the male soldered into a plate, which is bifid at the apex, 

 roof-shaped, brown ; inferior appendices long, turned upwards, biarti- 

 culated, basal joint long and straight, tliickened towards the apex, the 

 apical joint one-half shorter, curved, the apex slightly broadened and 

 rounded; penis long, straight, cylindrical, slightly dilated beneath 

 before the apex. In the female there are two quadrangular ciliated 

 vulvar plates, and also two cylindrical appendices towards the apex. 



Madeira. 



I have seen fifteen examples (from Hartung's collection), males 

 and females. 



Tliis species is apparently common. It belongs to the group of 

 S. atomaria, and differs from allied species by the black coloui' of the 

 body, and the brilliant golden-yellow of its spots. 



Nos. 50-57 (55 and 56 ? ; the others males). 



Genus Tinodes, Stephens. | 



T. oiNEREA, Hag. Stett. Zeit. t. 21, p. 283, 4. 



Cinerea, lufeo-Jiirta ; corpore palinsque fuscis ; antennis fuscis, angiiste 

 Jtavo-annulatis ; ^;ew/c/Z/o inter antennas aureo ; alis anticis cinercis, 

 luteo-hirtis ; posticis cinereis, cinereo-ciliatis ; pedihus pallidejlavis, tibiis 

 posticis ohscK/riorihus. 



Long, cum alls 7 mill. ; exp. alar. 12 mill. 

 Body brownish ; vertex inflated; two rather large pyriform tuberclea 

 on the occiput. Head clothed with fawn-coloured hairs, goldei 

 between the autennte. Palpi long and blackish-brown. Antenna 

 brown, annulated with fawn colour. Legs yellowish, the posterioi 

 tibiae brownish. "Wings narrow ; the anterior clothed with yellowisl 



