426 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



UEBYJABM. 



Carpholithia, n. g. 



Nearest to Heclyle ; wings narrow, elongated ; pri- 

 maries acuminate at apex, with a very slight angulation 

 of the outer margin at the end of the second median 

 branch ; body rather slender, but extending very slightly 

 beyond the secondaries ; palpi compressed, porrect, 

 extending its full length in front of the head ; antennse 

 simple ; legs long and rather slender ; spurs as usual, 

 rather long. 



137. Carpholithia cinerea, n. s. 



Ash-grey ; primaries with the basal three-fourths irro- 

 rated with blackish grey, crossed by two strongly angu- 

 lated lines of the same colour, and limited by a third 

 very slightly angulated line ; external margin dusky ; 

 fringe tipped with blackish and traversed by a dusky 

 line ; secondaries very slightly brassy in tint, with a 

 dusky marginal line ; thorax ash-grey ; the teguloB 

 black-tipped ; abdomen slightly brassy ; primaries below 

 blackish grey, the external area rose-red, with four snow- 

 white costal spots ; a black marginal line ; fringe grey, 

 with a white basal line, and tipped with blackish ; 

 secondaries silvery white, grey- speckled ; a brown lunate 

 disco-cellular spot, and a black marginal line ; fringe 

 tipped with blackish ; body below whity-brown. Expanse 

 of wings, 26 mm. 



Var. 1. Primaries above pearl-grey, with slight 

 brownish reflections, the third dark grey stripe inter- 

 sected by a whitish sinuous line, which at its upper 

 end curves inwards to the costal margin ; secondaries 

 above dull silvery. Expanse of wings, 24 — 26 mm. 



Var. 2. Primaries differing from those of the pre- 

 ceding species in having black orbicular and reniform 

 spots, the latter crossed by a whitish line, in wanting the 

 dark grey stripes almost entirely, though the sinuous 

 whitish line is present, and in having a black spot at 

 basal third of interno-median area; the secondaries 

 show traces of a dusky discal line ; primaries below with 

 the external area silvery white, like the secondaries, 

 which are speckled with dark brown, especially towards 

 the base. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 



"Las Zorras, in March."' — T. E. 



