collected in Chili. . . 393 



border ; a black marginal line ; fringe grey, with a white 

 basal line; secondaries pale bronze-brown, usually almost 

 white, with black marginal line ; fringe paler than in 

 the primaries ; body pale brown ; wings below shining 

 whity brown, slightly greyish in the typical male ; 

 secondaries with a rather large dusky disco-cellular 

 spot; pectus whitish ; venter greyish or brown. Expanse 

 of wings, 27 — 29 mm. 



"Valparaiso, November and December." 



"Larva twig-like; feeds on Adesmia.'" — T. E. 



77. Bacillogaster Jiypparia 



? AlsopMla /i?/pj9rtnrt, Felder and Eogenhofer, Keise 

 der Fregatte Novara, v., pi. cxxxii., fig. 35 (1875). 



" Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 



Felder's figure is not a very characteristic one, the 

 markings being too strongly defined ; the wings rather 

 too broad, and with more sinuous margins than exist in 

 any of the examples before me ; the male doubtless has 

 a longer body. 



LARENTIID^. 

 Opoeabia, Stephens. 



78. Oporabia cymatophora ? 



? Alsoi^hila cymatophora, Felder and Eogenhofer, 

 Eeise der Fregatte. Novara, v., pi. cxxxii., fig. 26 

 (1875). 

 "Bathsof Chilian, in March."— r. £;. ' 



In Felder's figure the markings are too strongly 

 defined, unless I have mistaken the species, and there is 

 no trace of even a slight subangulation of the primaries 

 in Mr. Edmonds' examples ; excepting in their slightly 

 smaller secondaries, they look like pale greyish examples 

 of 0. Jiligrammaria. ' . 



79. Oporabia martlia, n. s. 



Primaries above pale bluish grey ; basal half crossed 

 by two pairs of bl-ack-brown lines, the inner pair 

 <-shaped, the outer irregularly undulated ; a third pair 

 of lines wider apart and lunulated beyond the middle ; 

 the area enclosed, by these last lilies is brownish, and 

 traced by an indistinct grey line ; an arched discal series 



