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bunches of reddish brown hairs. The caterpillar feeds on the 

 cotton and other plants, and the moth appears in April. Found 

 in Virginia and Georgia. PI. XII., figs. 3 and 4. 



Next I may mention a small moth which I described in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society, vol. iii. p. 284, under 

 the name of Depressaria Gossypiella. This little moth belongs to 

 the large family of minute moths, the Tineidce, and I am under 

 obligation to my friend Dr. Royle, who takes such a lively interest 

 in all that concerns the commerce and agriculture of the East 

 Indies, for bringing its habits and economy to my notice. Dr. 

 Royle obtained his information from Dr. Barn, superintendent of 

 the government cotton plantations at Broach, who describes the 

 larva as very destructive to the American cotton grown at Broach, 

 but seldom affecting the native cotton. The larva feeds upon the 

 cotton seed until the pod is about to burst. The moth is ^ of an 

 inch in the expansion of the wings, and is of a dark fuscous 

 brown colour, the anterior wings having a round blackish spot on 

 the disk, and a band of the same colour crossing the wings a little 

 above the apex, which itself is black. 



Under the second head of species, now for the first time brought 

 forward, as injurious to the cotton plant, in the first place T will 

 describe two, for the knowledge of which I am indebted to Dr. 

 Horsfield, the talented Entomologist who has charge of the Ento- 

 mological collection of the Honourable East India Company, and 

 whose researches in Java will ever render his name memorable 

 among Entomologists. 



Arcl'm Horsfieldii. $ . 

 Antennae blade greyish white, pectinae reddish brown. Thorax 

 rounded above, purplish ashy grey. Abdomen brownish orange. 

 Anterior wings, above, purplish ashy grey, crossed with several 

 abbreviated, obsolete, wavy, dark ashy grey lines, running parallel 

 with the outer margin, and a more defined zigzag line of the same 

 colour near the base ; and with an elongate, reniform, eye-like, 

 dark grey spot on the disk, a little behind the anterior margin, 

 and near the centre of the same ; below, yellowish grey, with a 

 dark grey spot corresponding with the reniform mark on the upper 

 surface. Posterior wings brownish orange, gradually changing to 

 purplish ash grey on the outer margin, marked on the disk with a 

 dark grey spot, and with radiating lines of the same colour 

 running through the purplish grey of the outer margin, fore legs 

 ashy grey, middle and hinder legs cream-coloured. Caterpillar 

 yellowish white, covered with long lemon-coloured hairs. The 

 joints of the body each crossed above with an ash grey lunulate 



