collected in Chili. 3.91 



Chlenias, Guenee. 



74. Chlenias niadidata 'I 



? AlsophUa madidata, Felder and Rogenhofer, Reise 

 der Fregatte Novara, v., pi. cxxxii., fig. 27 (1875). 



<? , ? . "Las Zorras ; December, January, and Fe- 

 bruary."— T. ^. 



If, as I believe, I have correctly identified this species, 

 Felder's figure is not characteristic'; for though the form 

 of the wings and the outlines of the broad belt across the ' 

 primaries are the same as in Mr. Edmonds' specimens, 

 the irregular submarginal white stripe is different, being 

 confined in both sexes to the external angle, and bordered 

 internally by a blackish spot ; towards the apex there are 

 several elliptical black spots, sometimes edged with 

 white, but no trace of a continuation of the submarginal 

 stripe, which must, I think, have originated in a much 

 worn example restored by an imaginative artist ; the 

 male . has plumose antennae, as in other species of 

 Chlenias; the primaries are occasionally tinted here 

 and there with greenish. 



Bacillogaster, Blancliard. 



M. Blanchard has referred his genus to the Cramhites; 

 but gives no reason whatever for doing so ; on the 

 contrary, he says, — " Este genero differe mucho de todos 

 los demas Crambidas por lo largo de su abdomen y la 

 forma de los palpos y de las alas." The figure is of the 

 usual type of all in Gay's work, and cannot be depended 

 upon ; the secondaries are represented so small that the 

 insect might pass for a species of Pachrophylla, Blanch- 

 ard ; whereas the diagnosis merely says " j^osticce 

 ohlongoB," and the description, "Alas posteriores oblongas, 

 pequenas" (posterior wings oblong, small, or narrow); 

 in the insects which I believe to be referable to 

 Bacillogaster there is nothing remarkably small in the 

 secondaries, but, as I have been unable to recognise . the 

 typical species, it' is possible that it may have these 

 wings smaller than its congeners. 



75. Bacillogaster horeas, n. s. 



Primaries reddish clay-coloured, with a broad longi- 

 tudinal interno-median whitish streak ; mottled all over 



