collected in Chili. 57 



SCOPABimSl. 



Stenoptycha, Zeller. 



This genus, in my opinion, should be placed near to 

 both Agathodes and Stenopteryx, notwithstanding the more 

 simple neuration of the decidedly narrower secondaries ; 

 the structure of the head seems to me to be decidedly 

 opposed to its location in the Pterophoridce. 



15. Stenoptycha zelleri, n. s. 



Nearest to S. lindigi of Felder and Kogenhofer ; pri- 

 maries reddish brown ; the apical third darker, bounded 

 internally by an irregularly curved " reniform " spot and 

 a chocolate-brown spot below it ; orbicular large, greyish, 

 black-edged, but partly obliterated by a longitudinal 

 semitransparent streak running through the radial inter- 

 spaces and the discoidal cell; an ill-defined red-brown 

 spot below the orbicular, and one or two angular blackish 

 costal dashes nearer to the base ; a slightly zigzag dusky 

 discal line with yellow external edge ; a marginal black 

 stripe with whitish inner edge ; fringe white, traversed 

 by two black lines ; secondaries pearl-white, semi- 

 transparent ; disco-cellulars, a sinuous subapical streak, 

 and a submarginal streak, greyish ; a blackish marginal 

 stripe ; fringe traversed by a blackish line ; body grey, 

 spotted with red-brown ; wings below pearl-white, almost 

 silvery, markings indistinct ; body below chocolate- 

 brown ; legs with white tibiae and tarsi, barred with brown 

 at the extremities of the joints. Expanse of wings, 

 28—32 mm. 



" Las Zorras, December and January." — T. E. 



The wings are thrown backwards in repose, the pri- 

 maries curving, and the secondaries folding over some- 

 what like a fan, so that the abdominal and external 

 margins form a continuous spiral line ; they have no 

 upward tendency : the head is almost as large as in 

 Stenopteryx, owing to the prominence and size of the 

 eyes and the somewhat large and projecting palpi ; the 

 antennae are, however, longer than in that genus. In the 

 secondaries the discoidal cell is long and large, more so 

 than in Stenopteryx, in which respect it differs widely 

 from the Pterophoridce, in which it is decidedly small. 



