56 Lord Walsingham on Western 
It may be necessary ultimately to distinguish this 
species, and its allies, from Mictopsichia, on the ground 
of the somewhat longer and more recurved palpi, and 
the less falcate apex of the forewings, but the same form 
occurs iu Mexico and the Malay Archipelago. 
TORTRICIDA. 
OLETHREUTINA. 
= (OLETHARE UTA Ub. = GRAPHOLT HTN, Kern. 
= EPIBLEMID, Meyr. 
Eccorsis, Z. 
Hecopsis precedens, sp.n. (PI. IIL, fig. 21.) 
Antenne stout and densely but shortly pubescent in ¢ ; 
ochreous. Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond it, 
moderately clothed ; cinereous. //cad cinereous, mixed with dark 
umber. Thorax cinereous. Forewings, costa arched near the base, 
depressed in the middle, thence again convex and depressed towards 
the apex, termen oblique, slightly convex ; pale cinereous, mottled 
and blotched with dark umber tending to blackish along the costa, 
and with a series of spots and blotches ; five costal spots on the 
basal third are followed by a median triangular shade interrupted 
a little beyond its middle, this is followed by another narrow 
costal spot, which is succeeded by a shade extending to the apex ; 
beneath this apical shade is an oblique band angulated at its upper 
extremity and reaching the termen below the middle, the space 
between it and the apex shining chalybeous; a few shining 
chalybeous scales scattered over the surface of the wing, especially 
on its outer half, the greater part of the wing-surface is also 
streaked and dotted with dark umber scales somewhat evenly dis- 
tributed ; cilia cinereous, slightly shining on their outer half. 
Underside brownish. Eup. al., 22 mm. ILindwings with the 
abdominal angle strongly lobed, the abdominal margin deeply 
indented and with a small hanging appendage near its base 
(somewhat more strongly developed than in Hecopsis wahlbergiana 
Z.); coppery-brown, cilia greyish with a slight parting shade 
along their middle. Underside brownish ochreous. Abdomen 
cinereous, much shaded with dark umber, anal tuft coppery-brown. 
Legs worn, apparently cinereous, tarsal joints broadly banded 
with dark umber. 
Danes er 
