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15. Proteopteryx walsinghamii, n. s. (No. 161). 



Smoky brown ; wings with cream-coloured fringe, 

 traversed by a slender dusky line ; primaries with a 

 costal series of small oblique black dashes with greyish 

 borders ; external border blackish, bounded internally 

 and divided into three parts by three slightly curved 

 silvery grey lines ; central area from dorsal margin 

 to second median branch clouded with blackish, and 

 crossed by a silvery greyish oblique band enclosing a 

 slender blackish line ; a cuneiform black spot within the 

 ■ end of the cell ; remaining areas traversed by parallel 

 slender dark brown lines directed backwards from the 

 costa ; secondaries with the basi-costal area whitish 

 brown ; basal area slightly pale ; a slender whitish mar- 

 ginal line ; body brownish testaceous ; under surface 

 shining fuliginous-brown ; fringe greyish ; costal border 

 of primaries pale buff, spotted with blackish ; posterior 

 legs silvery whitish. Expanse of wings, 12 mm. 



" In the neighbourhood of Honolulu." — T. B. 



Mr. Blackburn thinks that" this species may not be 

 rare, but "only overlooked"; it is much like typical 

 P. blaekburnii in the pattern of the primaries above ; but 

 these wings are altogether browner in colour ; the pattern 

 and coloration of the under surface, particularly of the 

 secondaries, is very dissimilar. 



TINEID^. 



16. Tinea simulans, n. s. (No. 159). 



In colour and pattern almost exactly like GEcophura 

 picarella of New Zealand, but allied to Tinea picarclla 

 and T. nigralhella of Europe ; primaries above milky 

 white, with black markings as follows : a cuneiform spot 

 at base of costal border, and a small spot at base of 

 submedian vein ; a transverse oblong abbreviated band, 

 to the infero-internal angle of which a short oblique 

 dash is attached, at basal third ; two small spots close to 

 the middle of costal and dorsal margins, a small spot at 

 external angle ; the remaining spots are connected and 

 form a slightly irregular iC- shaped character, extending 

 from between the two central spots to the extremity of 

 the fringe ; secondaries silvery grey ; head and thorax 

 above white ; shoulders black ; abdomen shining grej ; 



