^Q2 [Noveralier, 



auteunae. I have now had a reply from Moiis. Kaffray, and he 

 informs me that he has a J of C. bironis Kaffr., and that the antennae 

 are 10-jointed in the two sexes, a fact which I overlooked in his 

 description [Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 1903, p. 91], so that G.maJayanus 

 will not prove to be the ^ of C. serlceus. 



Esher : 

 August 25th, 1915. 



MYELOIS NEOPUANES, sp.n.: AN AUDITION TO THE BRITISH LIST. 



{LEP. PYRAL.) 



BY JOHN HARTLEY DUE.KANT, F.E.S. 



{Published by permission of the Trustees of the British 3Iuseum.) 



PHYCITIDAE. 



V 126. Myelois Hb. 



782"1. Myelois neoplianes, ^]}.u. 



Antennae slightly dentate and shortly ciliate in the <? ; dark fviscous. 

 Palpi curved, ascending, not roughly clothed ; dark fuscous, sprinkled with a 

 few whitish scales, especially toward the base of the terminal joint, and on the 

 basal joint. Haustellum scaled, fuscoiis, irrorated with whitish. Head dark 

 fuscoiTS, the scales tipped with whitish. Thorax dark fiiscous, some of the 

 scales tipped with whitish. Forewinas narrow, termen oblique, veins 4-.5 

 stalked ; dark fuscoiis, some of the scales being tipped with white give an 

 irrorate appearance to the wing, except along the dorsum and on either side of 

 the two transverse lines of white-tipped scales; the first line, slightly oblique 

 outward from costa to dorsum, is almost interrupted above the fold, below 

 which it is more conspicuously whitish (owing to the scales becoming entirely 

 whitish) — in some specimens this whitish dorsal marking tends to become 

 lunate ; the second line, obliquely inward from costa to dorsum, somewhat 

 indented inwardly above vein 5 and on the fold ; the obliquely placed discal 

 spots are slightl}" darker than the ground-colour, but sometimes ill-defined ; 

 cilia leaden fuscous, tipped with white and with two fine whitish lines running 

 through them. Exp. at. $ 15'5 — ^ 21 mm. Hindwings thinly scaled, shining, 

 pale greyish, darker along the margins ; cilia shining whitish, with a dark line 

 along their base. Abdomen and Leas dark fuscous ; tarsi pale-.spotted. 



Type S (I^rnt. 7235) ; ? (Dmt. 7236) E. R. Bankes Coll., BM. 



Hob. Dorset: Norden Heath, Corfe, 1-6.VIII.1902, 2^30.VI. 

 1903 {E. B. Bavh.'><) : Surrey : Witley Common, 24.VII.1912 {E. G.B. 

 Waters; Drnt. 7215). Eleven specimens. 



