224 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



ochreous or liglit fuscous, a broad costal streak from base to | 

 suffusi'dly mixed white; base of dorsal edge white, edged above 

 with l)lackish suffusion ; discal stigiujita white, first forming an 

 oblique mark, second dot-like, both more or less edged blackish and 

 connected by an elongate blackish spot; blackish streaks between 

 veins 2-12, uppermost terminating in a blackish spot on middle of 

 costa, next three strong, interrupted by a sharply angulated whitish 

 sliade running from beyond middle of costa to j; of dorsum, others 

 slenderer, not continued beyond this shade or only by some scattered 

 scales; a marginal series of irregular Idackish dots round posterior 

 ])art of costa and ternien : cilia grey-whitish, basal half sufiusedly 

 spotted light grey. Ilindwings whitish, slightly sprinkled ])ale 

 grej' postrriorls' ; cilia whitish, a faint pale grey subbasal shade. 



Canada, Parry Sound, August (/'err/.s^) : four specimens. Allied 

 to macidatella, which was also obtained from the same locality. 



Plocamosaris pandora Meyr. 



After completing a careful revision of the Xi/loryctufce I now 

 perceive this genus to be an CEcophorid, allied to (Jrijj^dolecliia and 

 ScoUoampha; the absence of tlie critical vein 7 of forewings and 5 

 of hindwings led to misinterpretation. The following are the 

 characters proving that the species is not referable to the group of 

 Steaoma, where I had placed it and to which its superficial 

 appearance is sufficiently conformable, viz. (1) the long slender 

 anterior tarsi, which in Stenoma and its allies are peculiarly short 

 and stout, usually not longer than the very short tibial ; (2) the 

 peculiar and characteristic palpi, quite unlike any in the 

 Xi/loryctidce, but very similar to Scolingraplia and other forms of 

 (EcophorldiP ; (3) the characteristic short and uneven ciliation of 

 the (S antennae, and slender elongate basal joint. Ocelli are small, 

 posterior; in the hindwings the transverse vein is outwardly 

 oblique from 3 to 0, and (proliahly in S only) there is a groove 

 between veins 6 and 7 extending into cell, and it is i)erhaps the 

 distortion due to this which accounts for the very unusual absence 

 of vein 5. 



PLUTELLID.^. 



Paraphyllis aulophora, n. sp. 



S. 3 5-1 (5 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, externally 

 irrorated grey except tip Antennae stout towai'ds base. Thorax 

 dark purplish fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, segmental margins 

 suifusedly mixed whitisli. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa moderately arclied, apex pointed, termen very oblitjuely 

 rounded ; dark purplish-brown ; a line of white suffusion just 

 l)eneath costa nearly throughout ; a whitish streak above middle 

 from base to a])ex ; a narrow streak of whitish suffusion on fold 

 posteriorly, and one on l)asal portion of dorsum : cilia fuscous, 

 beneath tornus mixed whitish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey, 

 base whitish. 



