collected in Chili. 75 



47. Tcecorhijchia cinerea, n. s. 



Shining ash-gray; primaries with the costa black- 

 spotted beyond the middle ; an oblique black spot at the 

 end of the cell and an oblique series of minute black 

 dashes beyond it across the disc; a slender blackish 

 marginal line ; fringe cream-coloured ; secondaries paler, 

 especially towards the abdominal margin; a marginal 

 series of dusky dots; fringe cream-coloured; wings 

 below shining grey, with cream-coloured fringes ; pectus 

 and front legs grey ; middle legs greyish white ; venter 

 and posterior legs cream-coloured. Expanse of wings, 

 22 mm. 



"Valparaiso, in houses." — T. E. 



PLUTELLID.E. 

 Plutella, Schranck. 

 48. Plutella xylostella. 

 Tinea xylostella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., x., p. 538. 

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



GELECHIID^. 

 Orthotelia, Stephens. 

 49. Orthotelia increta, n. s. 

 Decidedly larger than 0. sparganiella, and with longer 

 and more acuminate palpi ; primaries above coffee-brown, 

 shining, with a feeble lilac gloss ; costal margin dull 

 red ; external border dusky ; fringe traversed by two 

 black stripes and tipped with pink, which gives place to 

 snow-white at external angle ; discoidal spots indicated 

 in dark brown ; a slightly curved transverse discal series 

 of white-dotted dark brown dashes ; secondaries sliming 

 grey ; costa and fringe whitish, the latter traversed by 

 two indistinct grey stripes ; a yellowish line along the 

 outer margin ; head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen 

 greyish ; under surface shining whitish, irr orated with 

 dark grey ; primaries with the costal margin and external 

 area testaceous, and a broad elbowed band immediately 

 within these (passing through the cell and across the 

 disc) blackish ; secondaries with pale testaceous costal 

 area and external margin ; anterior and middle pairs of 

 legs brownish. Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 

 " Corral, Valdivia, in February."— I 7 . E. 



