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ending in a flattened conical cremaster, bearing three pairs of hooks, the distal pair 

 of which are very much the largest and the innermost pair the smallest. The body 

 is mottled and speckled, with a diffuse lateral dark line along the side of the abdo- 

 men. The live jiairs of spiracles visible are black. The wings are slightly striped 

 with dark specks. A median dark ventral longitudinal abdominal band, and a dor- 

 sal irregular dark band. 



STEPS TOWARDS A REVISION OF CHAMBERS'S INDEX, WITH NOTES 

 AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES. 



By Lord Waxsingham. 



[Continued from p. 389, Vol. iii.] 



HELIODININiE. 



Heliodines Stn. 



Heliodines Stn., Ins. Brit. Lp., 243 (1854) : Type Tinea roesella, L. 



■^JEtole Chamb., Can. Ent., vii, 73 (1875) : Type JStole lella Chamb. 



(=^to?e Wlsm. ; =^hle Chamb.; =^¥Aola (Frey) Hgn.) 



1. Heliodines bella Chamb. 



JEtoU iella, Chamb. Can. Ent., vii, 73-4 (1875) : ix, 72 (1877). 



Bull. U. S. GG. Surv... in, 144 (1877): Jr. Cin. Soc, N. H., ii, 199, 204, Fig. 54 

 (1880). 



j^lole iella, Chamb. Bull. U. S. GG. Surv, iv, 128 (1878). 



jEtole Iella, Wlsm. Pr. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1881, 324, Fig. 1. 



j^tola hclla (Frey) Hgn. Pap., iv, 154 (1884). 



Imago: August (Chamb.). 

 Hah: Texas (Chamb.); Colorado, Denver (Chamb.); California, Los Angeles Co. 



(Wlsm). 



A specimen of this species from Los Angeles was submitted to me for examination 

 by Dr. Riley in 1877. 



2. Heliodines tripunctella, sp. n. 



Antemuv, gray. 



Palpi, shining gray, slightly paler than the head. 



Head and /ace, shining gray. 



Thorax, gray ; beneath, bright orange on the sides. 



Fore wings, bright orange, with a small gray spot at the extreme base of the costal 

 margin, followed by two costal spots, one before, the other at about the middle; 

 the first of these is preceded by a similar spot on the dorsal margin ; these three 

 spots are all shining metallic steel-gray and from the outer costal spot proceeds 

 a shining gray baud which follows the costal margin to the apex, and passing 

 around it at the base of the gray cilia, reaches along the dorsal margin to a point 

 opposite the middle space between the two costal spots. Underside bronzy 

 brown. 



Hind wings, bronzy brown ; cilia brownish gray. Underside bronzy brown. 



Abdomen, orange tipped with gray at the extreme apex. Underside gray. 



Legs, brownish fuscous with obscure pale bands on the hiud tibia?. 



Exp. al: 9 mm. 



Hab: Texas. (Belfrage, three specimens, two of which are from the Zeller collection.) 



Type 9 Mus. Wlsm. 



