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slightly rounded, oblique ; pale greyish-ochreous sprinkled with grey and blackish, more 

 whit ■ish-ochreous on margins ; seven small spots of blackish irroration on costa, two in disc 

 at f and §, one on submedian fold before tornus, and several along termen ; a bent 

 subterminal shade of grey suffusion sprinkled with black : cilia whitish-ochreous sprinkled 

 with grey and blackish. Hindwings grey, paler towards base ; cilia whitish-ochreous 

 tinged with grey. 



Aldabra ; one specimen. 



Tortricidae. 



Adoxophyes Meyr. 



2. Adoxophyes ergatica, n. sp. 



%. 20 — 21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light ochreous-brownish more or less 

 sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings suboblong, 

 rather broad, costa anteriorly strongly arched, posteriorly nearly straight, apex obtuse, 

 termen sinuate, vertical ; brown or light brown, sometimes with violet reflections, with 

 more or less indicated scattered strigulae of dark ferruginous-fuscous scales ; edge of 

 basal patch indicated by a dark stria, angulated below middle ; central fascia moderate, 

 irregular, oblicpie, reddish-fuscous, in one specimen indistinctly indicated throughout, 

 in the other reduced to costal and dorsal spots and traces of connecting striae ; costal 

 patch flattened-triangular, reddish-fuscous, in the darker specimen ill-defined ; in the 

 lighter specimen a dark stria runs from near its apex to tornus : cilia light brownish- 

 ochreous, sometimes mixed towards base with ferruginous-brown. Hindwings light grey, 

 towards costa and in disc posteriorly broadly suffused with ochreous-whitish, apex 

 narrowly light grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey subbasal shade. 



Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau and edge of forest, about 1000 feet, in 

 September ; two specimens. 



Eboda Walk. 



3. Eboda amblopis, n. sp. 



$. 13 mm. Head and palpi white mixed with fuscous and dark fuscous ; palpi 2, 

 subascending, second joint much expanded with projecting scales towards apex. Thorax 

 fuscous-whitish irrorated with fuscous. Abdomen light fuscous, beneath ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings oblong, costa abruptly arched near base, thence straight, apex obtuse, termen 

 somewhat oblique, rounded beneath ; fuscous, finely irrorated with ochreous-whitish, 

 with scattered blackish strigulaa of raised scales ; several spots of darker suffusion along 

 costa, and one in disc at f ; larger tufts mixed with blackish above and beneath submedian 

 fold near its extremity, upper anterior : cilia light fuscous irrorated with whitish, barred 

 on basal half with dark fuscous. Hindwings with 4 absent, 5 closely approximated at 

 base to 3 ; grey, paler towards base ; cilia pale grey. 



Aldabra ; one specimen. 



