56 Lord Walsi ogham on Western 



It may be necessary ultimately to distinguish this 

 species, and its allies, from Mictopsichia, 011 the ground 

 of the somewhat longer and more recurved palpi, and 

 the less falcate apex of the forewings, but the same form 

 occurs in Mexico and the Malay Archipelago. 



TORTRICIDJS. 



OLETHEEUTIN^. 



= OLETHHEUT^E, Hb., = GRAPHOLITHIN^E, Fern. 



= EPIBLEMIDsE, Meyr. 



Eccorsis, Z. 



Eccopsis przecedens, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 21.) 

 Antennae stout and densely but shortly pubescent in < : 

 ochreous. Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond it r 

 moderately clothed ; cinereous. Head cinereous, mixed with dark 

 umber. Thorax cinereous. Forewingi, costa arched near the base r 

 depressed in the middle, thence again convex and depressed towards 

 the apex, termen oblique, slightly convex ; pale cinereous, mottled 

 and blotched with dark umber tending to blackish along the costa 7 

 and with a series of spots and blotches ; five costal spots on the 

 basal third are followed by a median triangular shade interrupted 

 a little beyond its middle, this is followed by another narrow 

 costal spot, which is succeeded by a shade extending to the apex ; 

 beneath this apical shade is an oblique band angulated at its upper 

 extremity and reaching the termen below the middle, the space 

 between it and the apex shining chalybeous; a few shining 

 chalybeous scales scattered over the surface of the wing, especially 

 on its outer half, the greater part of the wing-surface is also- 

 streaked and dotted with dark umber scales somewhat evenly dis- 

 tributed ; cilia cinereous, slightly shining on their outer half. 

 Underside brownish. E'xp. aL, 22 mm. Hindwings with the 

 abdominal angle strongly lobed, the abdominal margin deeply 

 indented and with a small hanging appendage near its base 

 (somewhat more strongly developed than in Eccopsis wahlbergiana 7 

 Z.) ; coppery-brown, cilia greyish with a slight parting shade 

 along their middle. Underside brownish ochreous. Abdomen 

 cinereous, much shaded with dark umber, anal tuft coppery- browiu 

 Legs worn, apparently cinereous, tarsal joints broadly banded 

 with dark umber. 



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