al 
280 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricide, 
and fuscous scales at the base of the fringes, and with a 
conspicuous tooth of dark brownish fuscous scales near 
the apex, above which the fringes on the anterior edge 
of the lobe are also thickened with dark scales up to 
the apex. The abdomen is missing in all Mr. Gooch’s 
specimens ; the legs are whitish ochreous, banded with 
dark brown above each joint ; the spurs whitish ochreous, 
the first pair longer than the second; above each pair is 
a conspicuous fringe of raised dark brown scales. Ex- 
panse, 16 mm. 
This species stands second in the British Museum 
series of Oxyptilus direptalis, Walk. ; but an examination 
of the deseription shows (as stated above) that it applies 
with more correctness to the example of Amblyptilus 
cosmodactylus, which stands first in the same series, 
and which is evidently the type; the name O. direptalis, 
Walk., must, therefore, be abandoned, inasmuch as it 
could not have been intended to apply to the species 
now under description. It would have been difficult to 
render this species recognisable by means of a figure ; it 
is nearly allied to O. piloselle, Zell., the tooth of scales 
on the third lobe of the hind wings being somewhat 
nearer to the apex than in O. letus and O. distans, which 
species it more closely resembles in appearance. 
Three specimens in Mr. Gooch’s collection taken at 
Spring Vale and D’Urban among grass in the afternoon, 
and at ight in the evening in November and December. 
Oxyptilus wahlbergi, Zell., Lin. Ent. vi., p. 846; Hand- 
lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 117. 
O. wahlbergi, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., 
p- 934. 
Pterophorus rutilalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., 
p. 948. 
Three specimens of this species are in Mr. Gooch’s 
collection without any record of the time or place of 
capture. 
Of the palpi Zeller writes :—‘‘ Taster von doppelter 
Kopflange, weisslich. Endglied ther den _ spitzen 
Haarbusch des zweiten Gliedes hinausreichend, weiss, 
auf der Unterseite schwarz.” 
The palpi are very peculiar; there is a small pointed 
tuft of hair on the first as well as on the second joint, 
