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248 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricide, 
there is no evidence at present to support a conjecture 
that Adela / electella may prove to be the female of 
A. natalensis; indeed, the great difference of their 
respective sizes renders it at least improbable, but, in 
view of their similarity, it is worthy of notice that the 
specimen is mounted in such a way as to render it 
apparently impossible to determine its sex, although 
Mr. Walker considered it to be a male; and moreover, 
that his examples of A. albicornis, which (as I pointed 
out in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ 
London, February, 1880, p. 78), is a synonym of Adela 
natalensis, Stn., were received in the same collection and 
from the same locality as his Micropterya ? electella. 
Hyponomevuta, Zeller. 
Hyponomeuta africanus, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
n: 8., vol.\v.;.p. 222; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., 
B. M., xxxv., p. 1824. 
Hyponomeuta subplumbellus, n.s. (Pl. XI., fig. 16). 
Capite palpis et antennis plumbeis. Thorace plumbeo, 
maculis quinque nigris in margine dispositis. Alis 
anticis angustis elongatis subnitentibus punctis nigris 
seriatim dispositis quinque sub costa ultra medium pro- 
ductis quinque supra plicam et quinque supra mar- 
ginem dorsalem minus extensis; aliis minoribus ante 
apicem singulis. Posticis plumbeo-cinereis quam anticis 
vix latioribus. 
Head, palpi, and antenne lead-colour, the face slightly 
paler. Thorax lead-colour, with five black spots, two on 
each side, and one at the back. Fore wings lead-colour, 
slightly shining, with three rows of about five small 
black dots, one below the costa reaching beyond the 
middle, and one on each side of the fold reaching 
scarcely beyond the middle, one or two smaller black 
dots beyond the end of the cell. Hind wings slightly 
wider than the fore wings, leaden grey (not black). Ex- 
panse, 18 mm. 
One specimen in Mr. Gooch’s collection. 
This species is nearly allied to Hyponomeuta viginti- 
punctatus, Retz., but the fore wings are narrower and 
more elongate, the spots smaller and not so numerous ; 
