254 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricide, 
Ale anteriores latiuscule, tortriciformes, costa prope 
basim convexa postice rectilinea vel modice convexa, 
apice acuto vel obtuso vel obtuse rotundato ; vene simplices. 
Ale posteriores ample, breviter ciliate, costa vix con- 
vexula, margine postico ante apicem impresso, venis 
simplicibus.” 
This considerable extension of the distinguishing 
characters of the genus enabled him to include in it such 
forms as that of Cryptolechia sesquitertia, Zell. (Lin. Ent. 
ix., pl. 111, f. 20), an insect apparently differing more 
widely from the original African type than from the 
allied genera, Auxocrassa, Mesoptycha, and Anteotricha, 
also then for the first time defined by the same author. 
Mr. Walker (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 722), has 
described another species of this genus from Ega under 
the name Cryptolechia straminella, Walk., and sub- 
sequently, in the same volume of his ‘Catalogue’ (p. 745), 
has spelt the name of Zeller’s African species in the same 
way, whereas it was originally spelt ‘‘ stramineella.”” The 
distinction is scarcely sufficient to justify the retention 
of Mr. Walker’s name for the South American species, 
which in any future revision of the genus should certainly 
be re-christened. 
Cryptolechia obliquella, n.s. (Pl. XI., fig. 22). 
Capite palpis et antennis lacteis. Thorace lacteo- 
brunneo bimaculato. Alis anticis lacteis, macula in 
basi cost, fascia basali, fascia mediali late reduplicato 
cuneiforme, et fascia anguste prope marginem apicalem, 
brunneis; ciliis lacteis. Alis posticis lacteo-cinereis. 
Apud apicem cost subobsolete bistrigalis. 
Head, palpi, and antennze creamy white. Thorax 
creamy white, with two brownish spots or streaks. Fore 
_ wings with the costa slightly arched, the apical margin 
oblique ; apex somewhat acuminate, creamy white, with 
a brown spot at the extreme base of the costa, a narrow 
brown fascia near the base slightly curved outwards. A 
wide reduplicated brown wedge-shaped fascia occupying 
two-thirds of the costal and one-half of the dorsal space 
beyond the middle of the wing, its central space showing 
the pale ground colour in more or less amalgamated 
longitudinal streaks ; its inner edge straight, its outer 
edge obliquely parallel to the apical margin; before 
this running from the apex to within the anal angle 
