392 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerom Lepldoptera 



with black so as to give it a grey appearance, crossed at 

 basal third by a very deeply indented slender zigzag 

 black line, across which runs a slightly arched oblique 

 white stripe, bounded internally upon the costa by a 

 large black spot, but only seen in fresh male examples, 

 as is the case with the other white stripes on these 

 wings ; an indistinct deeply dentate zigzag line just 

 beyond the cell, crossed in the male by a slightly 

 inarched white stripe, upon which is a series of black 

 dots ; a conspicuous rounded black disco-cellular spot ; 

 an internally blackish-bordered oblique abbreviated 

 white stripe on the disc from the external angle ; a 

 marginal series of black dots, forming towards the 

 external angle a broken line; secondaries white, the 

 female with flesh-tinted external area, and an imperfect 

 slender blackish line ; body of male testaceous, the 

 abdomen greyish in the centre, with black dorsal tufts ; 

 in the female, the primaries of which are of a more laky 

 tint than in the male with the costal border distinctly 

 grey, the body is- also distinctly of a pinker colour, with 

 greyish tegulae ; primaries below whity-brown, sericeous, 

 greyish in certain lights, with a rather broad external 

 dusky border, crossed by pale veins ; a marginal black line, 

 interrupted upon the veins ; fringe dark grey, sericeous ; 

 costal margin black-speckled ; a black spot at the end of 

 the cell ; seconclaries sericeous-white ; costal area 

 slightly speckled with brown ; a black marginal line as 

 in the primajies ; fringe white ; body below j)ale brown. 

 Expanse of .wings, c? 33 mm. ; ? 39 mm. 



"Valparaiso, November and December." 



"Larva smooth, and purplish red in colour; exactly 

 resembles the stem of the food-plant ; feeds on Quilo in 

 October."— r. E. 



76. Bacillogaster parva, n. s. 



Primaries above bronze-brown, sericeous, black- 

 speckled ; the discoidal area and costal border more 

 or less mottled with white; two parallel arched bands 

 beyond the middle; the inner one blackish, the outer 

 one commencing in a chalky white apical streak, its 

 centre more or less distinct, pale reddish brown, some- 

 times obsolete, its inferior extremity (which almost 

 reaches the external angle) blackish, with white external 



