466 Dr. A. G. Butler oii Lepidoptera from Chili. 



rupted just beyond the cell by a white 7-sliaped character ; 

 the secondaries are sericeous, cream-coloured, acuminate at 

 apex ; the neuration is peculiar, the internal vein absent, the 

 three median branches placed near the abdominal margin, and 

 the lower discocellular veinlet absent ; the subcostal branches 

 spring- from the end of the cell, not from a footstalk, as in the 

 female. 



I have followed Warren in calling this a species of Suphia, 

 though the character of the male points rather to a relation- 

 ship to Remodes and allied genera. 



43. Spargania pastoralis, Butler. 

 Ypsipetes pastoralis, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 408. u. 104. 

 No. 20. 



44. Spargania heUissima, sp. n. 



Sericeous ; primaries pale argillaceous brown ; an irregular 

 black-brown basal band, bounded externally by a zigzag 

 white line ; central belt irregular, white, shaded with buff in 

 the centre and at inner margin enclosing three large irregular 

 black-brown patches, two costal and one crossing the median 

 branches, also two small black markings on inner margin, 

 connected with the latter on each side by a slender line ; the 

 central belt is of nearly equal widtii from the inner margin to 

 the lower radial vein (vein 5), but from thence rapidly widens 

 to costa, where it is of double the width ; a large apical 

 blackish patch, divided by an irregularly zigzag submarginal 

 line; the latter interrupted below the black patch by an 

 oblique patch of white and bounded internally by a broad 

 diffused band of smoky brown ; fringe pale argillaceous at 

 base, white externally, traversed by a central grey line and 

 regularly spotted with black : secondaries silvery grey, 

 darkest at outer margin ; a black dot at the end of the cell ; 

 fringe paler than on primaries, with smaller black spots : head 

 and collar buff, varied with black ; thorax whitish ; abdomen 

 buff, with blackish subdorsal dots in pairs. Under surface 

 silvery greyish ; primaries with faint indications of the upper 

 surface markings : secondaries, when examined with a lens, 

 white, speckled with grey, crossed beyond the middle by an 

 arched dentate-sinuate blackish line, followed by an ill-defined 

 grey band ; a black dot at the end of the cell : body below 

 brownish ; palpi black, banded with white. Expanse of 

 wings 27 millim. 



No. 132. 



I was not able to adopt one of Herr Ruschewegh's names 

 for this very charming little moth. 



