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extraordinary appearance. Nevertheless, although these two 
compartments of the wing are suddenly and abruptly marked 
out by the unusual colours to which I have just called atten¬ 
tion, the latter, when closely inspected, will be seen to be not 
quite uniform throughout; for the buff (or larger) portion is 
more or less dusted with a few minute blackish scales above 
the anal angle, which have a tendency to arrange themselves 
in a small transverse fascia, whilst the white (or smaller) one 
has generally faint traces of a certain number of very obscure 
buffish scales towards the costa. Its limbs, too, are of a 
snowy white, with the extreme tips of the feet generally of 
a deep black. It is at intermediate and lofty altitudes that 
T. niveojpicta particularly abounds, especially, perhaps, the 
former ; and since I met with it more than elsewhere within 
the cultivated districts, it at once struck me that it might 
perhaps be introduced. Nevertheless, as I cannot ascertain 
that it is known elsewhere, I have ventured to describe it as 
new. Throughout the grounds of Plantation this quaint little 
moth is universal; and when adhering to the walls and pillars 
of gateways, to which it might constantly be seen attached, 
there are few moths of so small a size which would be so 
readily discerned or more pleasing to the eye. From an old 
hedge in the kitchen-garden at Plantation I used to beat it 
out in prodigious numbers. 
Genus 34. Plutella, Schr. 
Plutella xylostella, Iliibn. 
This little European moth, which is also found at Madeira, 
and which possesses a very wide acquired range, is tolerably 
abundant at St. Helena, where, in all probability, it was 
originally imported from higher latitudes along with its prin¬ 
cipal food-plant, the common honeysuckle (Lonicera peri- 
clymenmn, Linn.), which grows commonly enough on many 
parts of the island. 
Genus 35. GIcophoka, Zell., Staint. 
(Ecoqihora splendidula , E. Woll. 
Expanse 4-4£ lines. With the labial palpi reflexed, slender, 
somewhat divaricating, and rather longer than the head; head 
smooth; antennaj of moderate length, and ciliated in the 
male. The fore wings are of a brownish tint, with an elongate 
yellowish antemedian spot, which extends from the costa to 
the fold, between which and the apex there is a second one, 
which is smaller and shorter, but more distinctly defined, than 
