collected in Chili. 73 



fringe shining stramineous, traversed by a grey line ; 

 secondaries whity-brown, rather densely mottled with 

 grey ; fringe traversed near the base by a broad stripe of 

 dark grey ; body greyish brown ; primaries below 

 sericeous grey-brown, with faint indications of the darker 

 markings of the upper surface ; costa whitish, spotted 

 with black ; fringe shining stramineous, traversed by a 

 well-defined grey stripe ; secondaries slightly whiter than 

 above ; body below sericeous-whitish. Expanse of wings, 

 16 mm. 



Probably Valparaiso. 



CHOEEUTHXE. 



Choreutis, Hiibner. 



44. Char cutis bjerka/ndrella. 



Tinea bjerkandrella, Thunberg, Diss. Ent. (Ins. Suec.) 

 i., p. 24 (1784). 



" Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 



The three specimens before me all differ in size and in 

 coloration ; the two larger ones scarcely showing the 

 white stripe usually found on the secondaries, the larger 

 of these two also wanting all the orange markings on the 

 primaries, in which respeot it agrees with an example in 

 the Museum from Espirito Sancto ; the smallest of the 

 three agrees in all respects with the dwarfed form named 

 by Duponchel C. pretiosana, which, according to Staud- 

 inger and Wocke, is identical with Zeller's C. australis. 



ATYCHIID^]. 



Atychia, Latreille. 



45. Atychia triphcenoides, n. s. 



Primaries above blackish piceous ; fringe shining 

 yellow-golden, blackish at base ; secondaries golden 

 orange, sericeous, borders blackish piceous ; fringe 

 shining yellow-golden, blackish at base ; body blackish ; 

 thorax clothed with grey hairs ; abdomen wanting ; pri- 

 maries below with a median streak from the base, turn- 

 ing upwards across the extremity of the cell, yellow- 

 golden ; remainder of the wing purplish piceous, the 

 outer half of the fringe paler and more brassy than 

 above ; secondaries slightly paler than above, otherwise 



