102 Lord Waisingliam oti 



mens used by him in writing his descriptions, and where 

 these are not available, specimens of each species from 

 his own collection, named in his handwriting. 



It is not surprising that Mr. Meyrick, without the 

 guidance of such valuable material, should have appa- 

 rently failed to identify the precise form of neuration 

 characteristic of the original genus Cryptolechia, which 

 is as follows : 



Fore ivings 12 veins ; 2 from near lower angle of cell ; 7 and 8 

 from a common stem, the fork enclosing the apex ; the rest sepa- 

 rate. Hind wings 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point at lower angle of 

 cell ; 5 bent over at its origin and somewhat approximate to 4 ; 

 6 and 7 separate, almost parallel ; 1 b furcate at base ; 8 joined to 

 upper edge of cell by a cross vein. [PI. VII., fig. 86.] 



As touching this question of neuration, I may perhaps 

 here remark that one at least of the characters on which 

 the Tortricidce have hitherto been separated from the 

 Tineidce will be found insufficient. It is well known 

 that in all the Tortricidce, and in many of the Tineidce, 

 vein 1 of the hind wings that is, the vein nearest to 

 the abdominal margin is divided into 3 veinlets. De 

 Peyerimhoff, in his ' Etude sur 1'organisation exterieure 

 des Tordeuses ' (Ann. Soc. Ent. France (ser. 5), VI., 

 523590, pi. X. XII. (1876)), pointed out that the 

 middle veinlet of these three was furcate at the base, 

 and relied upon this character as distinguishing the 

 family from the allied Tineidce. My assistant, Mr. 

 Durrant, has carefully searched for this character in the 

 subfamilies and genera of the Tineidce, and finds it not 

 only in species allied to Euplocamns, to Gelechia, to 

 GEcophora, to Atychia, and in Meyrick's Xyloryctidce, but 

 in the typical Tinea wpetzella, L., itself; in short, 

 almost wherever he has looked for it. 



[PI. iv., fig. 36.] 

 (\ Odites natalensis, sp. n. 



Antennae, brownish. Palpi slender, recurved, ochreous, shaded 

 with brown externally to beyond the middle of the second joint. 

 Head rough ; pale straw-yellow, shaded with brownish around the 

 eyes. Thorax pale straw -yellow. Fore wings pale straw-yellow 

 to beyond the middle, slightly shaded with brown on the extreme 

 costal margin near the base ; beyond the middle is a slightly waved 



