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male, grey in the female ; thorax flesh-coloured ; abdo- 

 men of the male whitish, with reddish anal tuft, of the 

 female greyish ; primaries below more or less suffused 

 with blackish grey ; the central stripes only distinct at 

 costa, where they are represented by whitish-bordered 

 black dashes ; secondaries shining whitish, brownish 

 along costal and external borders ; an abbreviated black 

 stripe from the costa to the end of the cell ; margin 

 and fringe as above ; body below reddish in the male, 

 greyish in the female ; tarsi white. Expanse of wings, 

 26 mm. 



"Valparaiso, November and December." — T. E. 



This species was placed with Godara chilensis. 



Aporodes, Guenee. 



3. Ajjorodes efficitalis. 



Herbula ? efficitalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. 4, 

 p. 1287 (1865). 



" Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 



Walker believed the type of this species to be from 

 New York, and I find a label to that effect in the col- 

 lection ; but it is just as likely that the example was from 

 Chili; it is allied to A. siibsequalis of Guenee. 



ENNYCHIIIX2E. 



Bhodama, Guenee. 



4. Rhodaria chilialis. 



Pyralis chilialis, F elder and Eogenhofer, Eeise der 

 Fregatte Novara, iv., pi. cxxxiv, fig. 30 (1875). 



"Valparaiso, October and November." — T. E. 



5. Rhoda/ria pu/rpuraria, n. s. 



Allied • to R. chilialis ; primaries above deep ferru- 

 ginous, irrorated with blackish, the fringe traversed by a 

 deep rose-coloured stripe with lilac inner and green outer 

 edge ; a narrow oblique white stripe just before the 

 external third, and slightly inarched towards the inner 

 margin ; secondaries fuliginous ; the basal half pale and 

 somewhat ochraceous, a narrow ochreous stripe just 

 beyond it ; fringe shining pearl-grey, tipped with whitish 



