440 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



secondaries whitish, tinted with stramineous towards the outer 

 margin; body below whitish, palpi and legs dull stramineous. 

 Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



MELLA, Walk. (ETIELLA, Zell. nom. spec.). 



In this genus also there appear to be nine veins (not 

 eight) in the hind wings, the internal vein having been 

 passed over. 



101. Mella arenosa, n. s. 



Primaries above pale sandy testaceous, the fringe slightly greyish 

 with a pale basal stripe; secondaries semitransparent pearly 

 greyish white, with faint golden reflections ; fringe whitish, with a 

 dusky subbasal stripe ; body pale testaceous, the head and thorax 

 slightly olivaceous ; wings below sericeous, pearly ; the primaries, 

 the costa of the secondaries, and the base of the fringes in all the 

 wings pale golden stramineous ; fringe with a greyish subbasal 

 stripe ; body below whitish, legs and palpi sordid. Expanse of 

 wings, 26 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



ANERASTIA, Hiibn. 



102. Anerastia nitens, n. s. 



Shining whity brown ; primaries sparsely irrorated with black, 

 with an oblique line of black scales from outer fourth of dorsal 

 margin to lower radial vein; external border somewhat more 

 densely irrorated with black than the remainder of the wing, the 

 atoms tending to produce a marginal series of spots and indicating 

 a line through the centre of the fringe; thorax and abdomen 

 somewhat ochraceous ; under surface shining whity brown, without 

 markings. Expanse of wings, 21 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



CEAMBID^E. 



DIPTYCOPHOEA, Zell. 



103. Diptycophora inornata, n. s. 



Pale stone-greyish, sericeous; primaries in the female greyer 

 than the secondaries ; reniform spot large, more or less ochraceous, 

 and sometimes outlined in black and subquadrate ; costal margin 

 slenderly blackish, interrupted (so as to form three short dashes) 

 towards apex ; a diffused white band from centre of inner margin 

 to costa at apex, interrupted by a slender oblique elbowed line of 



