500 Lord Walsingham on 



inner side near the dorsal margin than elsewhere, its edges being, 

 for the most part, speckled with black and brown scales, of which 

 there is also a large patch across its middle ; beyond it, from the 

 outer fourth, a cuneiform band divided by white on the costa, 

 descends nearly to the anal angle ending in a point before reaching 

 it, its somewhat sinuous edges defined by black and brown lines ; 

 the space about the apex, as well as between the markings described, 

 is very faintly mottled with pale grey ; cilia yellowish white. 

 Exp. al.j 17 mm. Hindwings shining pale grey, delicately mottled 

 throughout with darker grey ; cilia shining greyish white. Abdomen 

 shining greyish. Legs whitish, with a slight ochreous tinge. 



Type. ? . Mus. Wlsm. 



Ilab. California Alameda Co., bred from seeds of 

 Cupressus macrocarpa, 24th January, 1886. (Received 

 from Dr. C. V. Riley, No. 46, 1886.) 



OLETHEEUTINJE (OLETHREUT^E, Hb.) Wlsm. emend 

 = GRAPHOLITHIN^E, Fern. = EPIBLEMIDsE, Meyr. 



PENTHINA, Tr. 



PentJiina melanosticta, sp. n. 



Antenna greyish fuscous. Palpi black, with some white scales 

 beneath. Head whitish, mixed with fuscous and ferruginous 

 scales. Thorax black, the ends of the tegulge white. Forewings 

 white, with numerous black and blue-grey blotches mixed with 

 some ferruginous scales, especially about the apex and apical 

 margin ; these blotches are distributed in an ill-defined basal patch 

 extending to one-fourth (partially connected by greyish mottling 

 with a broad central fascia, interrupted on vein 2), and also 

 about the apex and more sparingly before and above the anal 

 angle ; there are three costal spots beyond the central fascia, a 

 blue-grey spot beyond the end of the cell, and a short band of the 

 same colour nearly parallel with the upper half of the apical 

 margin ; cilia dark greyish fuscous with a black line along their 

 base and some white speckling at their outer extremities. Under- 

 side greyish fuscous, the outer half of the costal margin cream- 

 white with three fuscous spots. Exp. /., 24 mm. Hindwings 

 brownish; cilia somewhat paler, with a dark dividing line near their 

 base. Underside dirty whitish, the margins shaded with fuscous. 



