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seven silvery white rays, several of them divided by a darker line ; cilia ochreous 

 white, spotted at the base with brown; inferior wings, legs, and underside, pale fuscous 

 white. 



The box contained two specimens of this small Tortrix, which resembles a little the 

 T. hybridana of Hiibner, pi. 38, fig. 238. 



Gen. 964.— ARGYROTOSA ? {Ste.) 



23. Parryana. Grey, superior wings with an angulated brown band near the base, 

 an incomplete one across the middle, and the apex of the same colour. 



Expansion eight lines. , 



PI. A, fig. 13. 



Brown, head and sides of thorax inclining to ferruginous, apex of abdomen ochreous; 

 superior wings pale grey, with a lilac tinge, and delicately tessellated with brown, an 

 angulated brown band near the base, indistinct at the costa, and another at the middle, 

 vanishing at the interior margin, very narrow at the costa, and angulated and dilated 

 outside at the disc, a round spot of the same colour at the tip, and three smaller ones 

 approaching it on the costa ; inferior wings a little paler, the margin and cilia ochreous- 

 fuscous. 



The antennae were broken oft' of the only specimen preserved of this very distinct 

 Tortrix, which I have named after Sir William Edward Parry. 



ORDER XIII.— H EMI PT ERA. 



Fam.— ACANTHIDiE. 

 Gen. 1094 ACANTHIA. {Lat.) 



24. Stellata. Blackish sericeous, elytra with a pale spot at the centre, and several 

 at the apex ; legs ochreous. 



Length three lines. 



Black, clothed with very short shining hairs ; thorax transverse ; the edges beneatli 

 subochreous, as well as the centre of the antepectus ; scutellum rather large ; elytra 

 with the costa reflexed at the base, a semitransparent spot at the base, another on the 



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