896 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



and with the usual golden reflections ; body below cream- 

 coloured. Expanse of wings, 37 mm. . 

 '' Chiloe, from Keed's collection."— T. E. 



The pattern above is so like that of the species figured 

 by Herrich-Schaffer that it would be worse than useless 

 to describe it in detail. 



Ehopalodes, Guenee. 



The species which I refer to this genus has the same 

 clubbed antennae in the female, similarly small secondaries, 

 upon which (as in the type of the genus) there are two 

 indistinct submarginal stripes, but the subcostal (not the 

 costal vein) has a free furca, and the inner margin of the 

 primaries has two projecting scale patches similar to 

 those of some of the Notodontidcs : were it not that I 

 rather doubt the absolute accuracy of some of the 

 characters given by Guenee, it would be necessary to 

 erect a new genus for the Chilian species. There is no 

 question of the affinity of Rhopalodes and Lohophora ; it 

 is out of place in Guenee's classification, as also is Sauris. 



83. Rhopalodes virescens. (PI. XVI., fig. 10). 



<? , Tomopteryx virescens, Philippi, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



xxxiv., p. 315, n. 3 ; pi. 2, fig. 7 (1873). 

 ? . " Chiloe, Eeed's collection."— T. E. 



The primaries of the female agree in pattern with 

 those of the male, but the secondaries are extremely pale 

 gold-brown, with two grey submarginal stripes ; the 

 characters of this sex prove that it is not congeneric 

 with T. amcena (the type of the genus), and I strongly 

 suspect T. lata to be a second Chilian Rhopalodes, and 

 an extremely rubbed male from the Cauquenes (too 

 much worn for description) to be a third ; their pri- 

 maries are too broad for either Tomopteryx or Pachro- 

 phylla. 



Amathia, Duponchel. 



This genus is constantly confounded with Lohophora, 

 of which L. polycomviata is type ; the type of Amathia 

 is A. hexapterata. 



