collected in Chili. 379 



disco-cellular spots ; primaries of the male greyish. 

 Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 



"From Reed's collection."— T. E. 



57. Tephrina varians, n. s. 



^ . Primaries above shining greyish brown, irrorated 

 with whitish, crossed at basal third by an irregular 

 whitish stripe with brown external margin, and on the 

 disc by a wavy cream-coloured stripe, edged externally 

 with dull reddish towards apex, and margined on both 

 sides with brown ; between these two stripes are indi- 

 cations of a transverse brown line; a whitish-edged 

 black disco-cellular dot ; secondaries pale sericeous 

 greyish brown, almost white, irrorated (especially towards 

 the abdominal margin) with dark brown ; two or three 

 dark brown spots towards the anal angle ; body greyish 

 brown ; under surface sericeous whity brown, indistinctly 

 grey-speckled ; wings with small blackish disco-cellular 

 spots between two scarcely visible parallel greyish brown 

 stripes. Expanse of wings, 33 mm. 



2 . Above of a pinker tint than the male ; the mark- 

 ings much more defined ; the inner stripe nearer to the 

 base of primaries and more angular ; the central line 

 represented by a well-marked grey-brown stripe ; the 

 discal stripe with its outer two-thirds ferruginous, bor- 

 dered externally by a broad diffused dark brownish streak ; 

 secondaries with three slightly divergent ill-defined abbre- 

 viated greyish lines from the abdominal margin to the 

 median vein ; body browner ; under surface flesh-tinted, 

 distinctly grey-speckled ; central parallel grey-brown 

 stripes well-defined. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



"Cordilleras of Cauquenes, in January." — T. E. 



The following, though placed with the succeeding 

 species (if, indeed, it is really distinct, which- seems 

 to me a little doubtful), are certainly referable to 1\ 

 varians. 



A variety, in both sexes, much more densely irrorated 

 with greyish brown throughout ; the whitish speckling 

 and the inner stripe on the primaries being almost 

 wholly obliterated ; the discal stripe flesh-coloured ; 

 fringe dark brown, with basal and central pale lines ; 

 the secondaries darker towards outer margin, with an 



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