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PHALONIADiE. 



Heterocrossa contactella, Walk. 



Tinea contactella, Walk. Suppl. 1813. 



'5- 14-15 mm. Head white. Palpi 2|, white, lower longitudinal 

 half blackish. Antennas white, obscurely ringed with fuscous. 

 Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with dark grey, collar and patagia 

 white. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Fore-wings elongate, 

 narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very 

 oblique, almost straight, rounded beneath; grey, irregularly irrorated 

 with dark grey and white ; a broad irregular-edged white suffusion 

 extending along anterior half of costa, and reaching § across wing j 

 three or four small black dots on costa anteriorly, second forming a 

 short strigula ; a narrow oblique-transverse pale ochreous spot edged 

 with black below middle at \ ; a black dot above middle of disc, and 

 a small pale ochreous sometimes blackish-mixed spot below it ; three 

 small faint whitish-ochreous spots arranged in a triangle in disc 

 beyond middle ; all these ochreous spots are ringed with white 

 suffusion ; an undefined angulated dark subterminal shade, marked 

 with black on veins ; a series of blackish dots on posterior half of 

 costa and termen : cilia light grey irrorated with white, basal half 

 obscurely barred with whitish. Hind-wings grey, paler anteriorly ; 

 cilia whitish. 



Two specimens, Wellington. I have not actually com- 

 pared these specimens with Walker's types, but from notes 

 I made on a previous inspection I think there is little 

 doubt of their identity ; the species had not hitherto been 

 rediscovered. It is intermediate between adrcptella and 

 the rest. 



(ECOPHORID^. 



Hypercallia aletis, sp. n. 



$ . 13 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous sprinkled with 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, a subapical ring of second 

 joint, and terminal joint except apex somewhat infuscated. Antennas 

 greyish-ochreous, ciliations 3. Abdomen fuscous. Fore-wings elon- 

 gate, moderate, costa gently arcbed, apex round-pointed, termen 

 somewhat rounded, rather strongly oblique ; greyish-ochreous 

 irrorated with fuscous ; some dark fuscous scales towards base of 

 costa ; first discal and plical stigmata very obscure, darker, plica] 

 rather obliquely beyond first discal ; second discal distinct, dark 

 fuscous, with some whitish scales beneath it : cilia greyish-ochreous 



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