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III. Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected in Chili by 

 Thomas Edmonds, Esq. By Arthur G. Butler, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read November 1st, 1882.] 



Plate XI. 



PABT IV.— PYRALES and MICROS. 



The collection of these groups, although less perfect 

 than in the other tribes, consists of not less than seventy 

 species. 



In Berg's paper on Patagonian Lepidoptera an effort 

 has been made to identify two or three of Blanchard's 

 genera, but, apart from the imperfection of the figures 

 and descriptions in Gay's ' Fauna Chilena,' it was im- 

 probable that the genera would be invariably correctly 

 identified among species taken in Patagonia; and, 

 although I labour under a similar difficulty when trying 

 to recognise in Berg's paper identifications of Chilian 

 species, I nevertheless have better descriptions to work 

 with. 



After a careful examination of Berg's descriptions I 

 have been unable to recognise any of his new species as 

 indubitably conspecific with Chilian forms ; the only 

 moths which seem to be probably identical are what I 

 regard as Depressaria desertorum and a small Gclechia. 



With respect to Blanchard's genera, recorded and in 

 part redescribed by Berg, I have a few words to say : 

 Phy copter us, Blanch., is a genus closely allied to Spilodes, 

 having palpi considerably longer than the head ; it has 

 no connection whatever with Nymphula* Lindera is 

 identical with Setomorpha of Zeller = Chrestotes, Butler, 

 both of which it will supersede : it appears to me that 

 Berg has rightly identified this genus, which evidently 

 has an unusually wide range. 



With reference to some of Zeller' s species, it is to be 

 regretted that they were described from single examples, 



* The figure, though not bad hi outline, is very imperfect as 

 regards markings. 



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