10 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



black ; genitalia castaneous. Expanse of wings, 22 

 mm. 



" Larvffi feed in case on * Quilo ' {Muhlenheckia 

 safiitUefolia) and other shrubs during the first half of the 

 summer, and perfect insects emerge in March and April." 



" This is not the Psyche chilensis of Eeed : the latter 

 is a larger insect, of the same genus, having the thorax 

 clothed with black instead of grey hairs. I hope to 

 receive specimens before long." — T. E. 



As we only had the species figured, it would have been 

 impossible to regard it as distinct from Philippi's insect 

 without the above note ; for though the description 

 says — " Der Kopf, die ganze Brust, Schenkel und 

 Schienen sindtief schwarz," it adds "und sehr dicht mit 

 langen und sehr feinen weichen Haaren bekleidet," 

 without stating that these long and fine hairs are also 

 black, as Mr. Edmonds assures me they are. Dr. 

 Philippi's description of the pupa-case would also 

 answer equally well for that of T. cancscens, which is 

 also of about the consistency of parchment, and armed 

 with small projecting bits of stick in a zone near the 

 middle and towards the base. 



LASIOCAMPID^. 



Macromphalia, Felder. 



15. Macromphalia nitida, n. s. 



Primaries dark shining cupreous-brown ; the two 

 ordinary lines representing the central belt barely 

 distinguishable, excepting on the costal border, where 

 they are represented by a few white scales; the externo- 

 discal lunulated line represented by a slightly-irregular 

 series of grey-bordered black lunules ; a few grey scales 

 upon the fringe ; secondaries bright coppery-chocolate, 

 slightly darker along the outer margin ; a slight 

 sprinkling of greyish scales on the fringe ; thorax 

 shining, dark cupreous-brown inclining to piceous, and 

 sprinkled with grey hairs ; antennae testaceous ; abdomen 

 at the base coloured like the thorax, but becoming paler 

 towards the anal extremity ; wings below of a uniform 

 cupreous-brown colour, sericeous, a few grey scales 

 sprinkled along the costal borders and on the fringes ; 

 body below pale sandy-brown, varied by a few white 

 hairs ; anterior femora with an ochreous spot below with 



