collected in Chili. 381 



58. Tephrina canescens, n'. s. 



Greyish white, rather sparsely irrprated with black ; 

 primaries above crossed by. five blackish undulated lines, 

 the two first and two last closely approximated and repre- 

 senting the margins of the pale stripes in T. varians ; 

 the outermost line bounded externally by a series of 

 conical black spots, which, in some examples (usually 

 females) which have the external area also blackish or 

 greyish, are seen to be white-tipped ; an oblique black or 

 blackish apical dash ; a marginal series of black spots ; 

 fringe grey, with basal and central white lines ; secondaries 

 with faint indications of a stripe across the basal third ; 

 three subanal spots and a marginal series black ; fringe 

 as in primaries ; abdomen greyish ; primaries below 

 shining grey, with the costal border and external area 

 whitish, black-speckled; two or three black subapical 

 spots ; secondaries white, with grey external area, sparsely 

 black-speckled; all the wings with black disco-cellular 

 spots placed between two slightly arched brownish stripes ; 

 body white, legs grey-speckled. Expanse of wings, 

 <? 33 mm. ; ? 29 mm. 



" Valparaiso, March to end of July."— T. E. 



A male variety occurs in which the whole central area 

 of the primaries, enclosed between the two pairs (sub- 

 basal and discal) of black lines, is blackish. Expanse of 

 wings, 33 mm. 



All the Chilian species have the antennae rather broadly 

 pectinated for the genus, though not much more so 

 than in T. arenacearia. 



PsAMATODES, Guenec. 

 59. Psamatodes ferruginaria. (PI. XVI., fig. 7). 

 Acidalia ferruginaria, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Fauna 

 Chilena,'.vii., p. 96, n. 2; pi. 7, fig. 11 (1852-4). 

 " Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 

 This species varies in depth of colour and in the 

 distinctness of its markings, most specimens being 

 paler than in M. Blanchard's figure. It is allied to 

 P. pumicaria, so far as I can judge from M. Guenee's 

 figure of that insect. 



