60 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lcpidoptera 



spots placed obliquely at the end of the cell ; a marginal 

 series of minute black dots ; fringe white ; thorax whity- 

 brown ; palpi long, acuminate, porrected, grey at the 

 sides and white below ; wings below greyish (the pri- 

 maries especially), with black marginal dots and white 

 fringe ; body below white ; the venter with lateral black 

 dots ; tarsi tipped with blackish. Expanse of wings, 

 24 mm. 



Valparaiso. 



Cryptoblabes, Zeller. 

 21. Cryptoblabes divergens, n. s. 



Primaries above granite-grey, with a small reddish 

 spot bounded on each side by black scales near the base 

 of inner margin ; a reddish tint on the first median 

 interspace ; a slightly irregular oblique black stripe, 

 margined internally with white, across the basal third ; 

 a zigzag black-edged white stripe across the disc ; be- 

 tween these two stripes is a small /-shaped character at 

 the end of the cell ; an ill-defined submarginal series of 

 minute blackish dots ; fringe white, traversed by two 

 grey stripes ; secondaries sericeous-white, slightly yel- 

 lowish or gold-tinted at apex and base of fringe ; a 

 brownish marginal line and a slender grey line on 

 the fringe ; thorax granite-grey ; abdomen pearl-grey, 

 changing to white with blackish spots towards the anal 

 segment ; tuft creamy white ; primaries below grey- 

 brown ; secondaries white, with brownish costa ; body 

 below white ; legs banded with grey. Expanse of wings, 

 21 mm. 



No exact locality recorded. 



The Phycidce of this collection were submitted to 

 Monsieur Eagonot, but unfortunately the two preceding 

 species (being discovered in the corner of one of Mr. 

 Edmonds' boxes after the return of M. Eagonot to Paris) 

 were not seen by him ; two other species from Valparaiso 

 which he did examine are not labelled, and therefore I 

 conclude that he has either identified them with pre- 

 viously-described species,* or has not considered them 

 to be in sufficiently good condition to make it safe to 

 describe them. 



* They appear to be Plodia interpunctalis and Homceosoma 

 nebulella. 



