378 Mr. A. Gr. Butler on Heteroceruus Lepidoptera 



55. Pliarmacis insignis, n. s. 



<? . Allied to the preceding, but very distinct ; above 

 white, irrorated with brown ; wings with bronze-brown 

 external borders ; primaries with brown costal border ; 

 central third occupied by an oblique black-brown belt, 

 slightly constricted in the centre, extending from the 

 inner margin to the costal fourth, but emitting a streak 

 from its upper margin to the subcostal vein ; two sub- 

 apical black dots, and a marginal series ; secondaries 

 with the basal two-thirds pinky brown, traversed near 

 its outer edge, and banded externally by two parallel 

 dark brown stripes, the outer one dotted with black ; a 

 disco-cellular spot and a slender interrupted marginal 

 line black-; under surface shining sandy whitish, irrorated 

 with grey ; discal and marginal series of black dots, and 

 black disco-cellular spots ; primaries with a greyish 

 central belt, limited externally by two convergent darker 

 stripes. Expanse of wings, 87 mm. 



"Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 



FIDONIID^. 



Tephrina, Guence. 



56. Tephrina lapidea, n.^. 



Primaries above whity-brown, slightly tinted with 

 pink in the female, indistinctly irrorated, and striated 

 with greyish brown ; primaries with a black disco-cellular 

 spot,, and crossed in the male by three equidistant lines, 

 the first at basal third, angular, dark brown; the second 

 central, nearly straight, pale golden-brown ; the third 

 discal, transverse, slightly sinuous, dark brown, and 

 followed immediately by a series of blackish and fulvous 

 unequal conical spots upon a difi'used greyish streak ; 

 in the female there is only a broad irregular sinuous 

 externo-discal grey-brown band, with reddish inner 

 margin ; the external border is also rather densely 

 irrorated with the same colour ; fringe brown, with a 

 pale central line ; secondaries whiter than the primaries, 

 excepting towards the outer margin; crossed in the male 

 by a slightly irregular discal series of five brown spots ; 

 under surface of the male whity-brown, of the female 

 pale pinky brown or tiesh-coloured ; the wings sparsely 

 irrorated with greyish and black-brown ; small black 



