72 - Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



41. Sericoris cauquenensis, n. s. 



Allied to S. urticaria ; primaries silvery greyish white, 

 indistinctly striated with grey ; base greyish, bounded 

 externally by an irregular oblique abbreviated dark brown 

 band, blackish and white-edged along its outer border ; 

 a second similar but bronze-brown white-margined band 

 just before the apical third ; a subapical triangular 

 bronze-brown costal spot, and a partly black-edged 

 cuneiform spot or streak of the same colour along the 

 centre of the outer margin ; fringe pinky brown, tra- 

 versed by two blackish lines ; secondaries silvery whitish, 

 striated with pale grey, a grey marginal line and two 

 blackish lines on the fringe ; body above grey ; primaries 

 below dark shining grey ; costal border spotted with 

 blackish and white ; a slender white line at the base of 

 the fringe ; secondaries sericeous-white, striated with 

 grey-brown ; apical area and fringe pale golden brown, 

 the latter with blackish lines as above ; body below 

 pearly white. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 



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



42. Sericoris er china, n. s. 



Certainly allied to the preceding species ; but the pri- 

 maries sericeous dove-grey, crossed by about nine equi- 

 distant undulated golden lines, only visible with a lens ; 

 secondaries shining greyish brown, with indistinct slightly 

 darker striations ; fringe silvery greyish, with a basal 

 white line ; body above grey ; primaries below sericeous 

 greyish brown ; edge of costal margin white dotted with 

 brown ; fringe with a basal white line ; secondaries 

 shining white, striated with grey ; costa and apical area 

 slightly brownish ; body below pearly white. Expanse 

 of wings, 19 mm. 



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



43. Sericoris eurydice, n. s. 



Aspect of S. urticaria ; primaries above pale sericeous 

 greyish brown, mottled with flesh-colour ; finely striated 

 with grey lines, dotted here and there with black ; basal 

 fourth dark brown, with angular black outer edge ; a 

 slightly irregular black-edged dark brown oblique band 

 just beyond the middle, and a subapical costal dark 

 brown spot ; an indistinct marginal series of grey spots ; 



