collected in Chili. , 71 



39. Phtkeochroa inexacta, n. s. 



Primaries above white, mottled with grey; a large 

 black-dotted grey [7-shaped spot (filled in) at the basal 

 fourth of costa, and a broad irregularly angulated grey 

 band striated with darker lines and dotted with black and 

 reddish just before the middle ; this is followed by a 

 band of' the ground colour, white speckled with red- 

 brown, and marked in the middle with two oblique 

 divergent black dashes ; a large dark grey-brown crescent- 

 shaped patch, spotted with black at its upper extremity, 

 fills in the external angle, and almost confluent with this 

 is an oblique black-flecked subapical band of the same 

 colour ; a squamose black marginal line ; fringe spotted 

 with brown ; secondaries sericeous whity-brown, with 

 faintly indicated darker reticulations and marginal line ; 

 thorax whitish, black-spotted ; abdomen sericeous whity- 

 brown ; primaries below shining greyish brown, costa 

 mottled with white ; a blackish marginal line and two on 

 the fringe ; secondaries white, flecked with dark brown ; 

 pectus silvery white ; venter and legs dull white. Ex- 

 panse of wings, 16 mm. 



" Mountains of the hacienda of Cauquenes."— T. E. 



Semcoris, Treitschke. 

 40. Sericoris wilkinsonii, n. s. 



Form of S. umbrosana; primaries above with the 

 basi-dorsal half sericeous grey-brown, crossed by partly 

 black-edged darker bands; the upper oblique edge of 

 this area is deeply bisinuated ; externo-costal halt white, 

 slightly sericeous, almost obliterated on the external area 

 by transverse ash-grey stripes flecked with black and 

 cupreous-brown ; costal margin and fringe spotted with 

 dark grey; secondaries silvery grey; fringe white, 

 traversed near the base by a slender grey line ; thorax 

 white, black-spotted ; abdomen silvery grey ; primaries 

 below dark grey ; costa mottled with white ; secondaries 

 silvery white, dotted or spotted with dark grey ; body 

 below silvery whitish. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 



" Valparaiso, November and December."—! 1 . E. 



The three following species, notwithstanding their 

 longer palpi, manifestly belong to the same genus ;— 



