280 Lord Walsingham on the Tortriciche, 



and fuscous scales at the base of the fringes, and with a 

 conspicuous tooth of dark brownish fuscous scales near 

 the apex, above which the fringes on the anterior edge 

 of the lobe are also thickened with dark scales up to 

 the apex. The abdomen is missing in all Mr. Gooch's 

 specimens ; the legs are whitish ochreous, banded with 

 dark brown above each joint ; the spurs whitish ochreous, 

 the first pair longer than the second ; above each pair is 

 a conspicuous fringe of raised dark brown scales. Ex- 

 panse, 16 mm. 



This species stands second in the British Museum 

 series of Oxyptilus direptalis, Walk. ; but an examination 

 of the description shows (as stated above) that it applies 

 with more correctness to the example of Amblyptilus 

 cosmodactylus, which stands first in the same series, 

 and which is evidently the type ; the name 0. direptalis, 

 Walk., must, therefore, be abandoned, inasmuch as it 

 could not have been intended to apply to the species 

 now under description. It would have been difficult to 

 render this species recognisable by means of a figure ; it 

 is nearly allied to 0. pilosellce, Zell., the tooth of scales 

 on the third lobe of the hind wings being somewhat 

 nearer to the apex than in 0. Itetus and 0. distans, which 

 species it more closely resembles in appearance. 



Three specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection taken at 

 Spring Vale and D' Urban among grass in the afternoon, 

 and at light in the evening in November and December. 



Oxyptilus wahlbergi, Zell., Lin. Ent. vi., p. 346 ; Hand- 

 lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetenj. Akad., 1852, p. 117. 



0. wahlbergi, Walk., CUt. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., 

 p. 934. 



Pterophorus rutilalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., 

 p. 943. 



Three specimens of this species are in Mr. Gooch's 

 collection without any record of the time or place of 

 capture. 



Of the palpi Zeller writes : " Taster von doppelter 

 Kopflange, weisslich. Endglied iiber den spitzen 

 Haarbusch des zweiten Gliedes hinausreichend, weiss, 

 auf der Unterseite schwarz." 



The palpi are very peculiar ; there is a small pointed 

 tuft of hair on the first as well as on the second joint, 



