394 Mr. A. G. Butler on Madagascar Lepidoptera. 



Gelechiidse. 



58. Gelechia tnsularis, sp. n. 



Dark fuliginous brown : primaries crossed before the middle 

 by a broad, pale-edged, golden- ochreous belt, which does not 

 quite reach the costal margin ; a small, ocelloid, black-brown 

 spot, margined with stramineous, beyond the cell, followed 

 immediately by an externally blackish-bordered, curved, 

 golden-ochreous discal band ; apex and outer margin whity 

 brown ; marginal line black ; fringe ochreous at apex and 

 for a short distance along the costa : secondaries paler than 

 primaries, without markings : head golden opaline ; an- 

 tenna? banded with whitish ; palpi with a central band and 

 the apical joint whitish. Under surface paler than above 

 and more sericeous : primaries with the apical costal fringe 

 ochreous, inner border whitish, markings of the upper sur- 

 face obsolete ; secondaries with the apical area apparently 

 speckled with dark grey and whitish. Expanse of wings 

 6 lines. 



59 . Cryptolechia argillacea, sp. n. 



Primaries above reddish ochraceous, with darker punctiform 

 orbicular and reniform spots, base of inner margin ferru- 

 ginous ; secondaries very pale stramineous ; thorax reddish 

 ochraceous ; head whitish ; palpi brown, with white apical 

 joint ; abdomen pale stramineous. Under surface pale stra- 

 mineous ; wings washed with ochreous along the costal bor- 

 ders, primaries also along the external border, and secondaries 

 from apex to about the second median branch. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 2h lines. 



The following undescribed butterflies are in the collection of 

 the late W. C. Hewitson. 



Charaxes relatus, sp. n. 



<$ . Nearly allied to C. zooltna, but the primaries above 

 much less obscured with brown at the base, and with the 

 abbreviated band arrested at the second instead of at the first 

 median branch ; the spots on the apical area smaller, the one 

 just above the third median branch reduced to a mere point : 

 secondaries much more elongated, the border with sharply 

 cut straight inner edge, the transverse black line across the 

 subcostal branches wanting, the submarginal spots reduced 

 to points, the deep orange border replaced by a much shorter 

 greenish-yellow border. Wings below with all the bands 

 considerably darker and margined with black, the silvery spot 



