1877.] ON THE FISHES OF THE LATE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 475 



below the apex ; base brownish or sordid cream-coloured, bounded 

 externally by an oblique brown line ; a second elbowed line, its 

 upper portion represented by the discocellulars, the lower by a streak 

 to tlie inner margin ; outer border (excepting at apex) greyish brown ; 

 three brown costal spots, the one nearest the base indistinct : secon- 

 daries creamy towards the base ; body creamy whitish. Wings below 

 with blackish diseocellular spots ; outer border of primaries, except- 

 ing at apex, and inner edge of border of secondaries covered with 

 dense confluent red-brown striations ; secondaries wilh a black costal 

 spot; body white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 



One example. Cape York. 



Family Gelechiid^e. 

 Genus Cryptophasa, Lewin. 



48. Cryptophasa russata, n. sp. 



Primaries shining ferruginous ; the costal border snow-white ; the 

 base, outer border, outer half of inner border, and a streak from the 

 outer border through the discocellulars to the centre of the discoidal 

 cell slaty greyish : secondaries pale ferruginous : head, collar, and 

 base of antennae snow-white ; thorax ferruginous; prothorax whitish 

 in front ; abdomen pale ferruginous. Under-surface pale shining 

 ferruginous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



One specimen. Cape York. 



Allied to C. ruhescens, but smaller, of a more elegant form, and 

 differently coloured. 



Genus Cryptolechia, Zeller. 



49. Cryptolechia nivella? 



Cryptolechia nivella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxix. p. 751 (1864). 

 One specimen. Cape York. 



5. Report on a Collection of Fishes made by Mr. C. Hart 

 during the late Arctic Expedition. By Dr. Albert 

 GiJNTHER, F.R.S., Keeper of the Department of Zoology, 

 British Museum. 



[Received May 22, 1877.] 



(Plate L.) 



Some months after the Report on Capt. Feilden's collection of 

 Fishes^ had been prepared, the British Museum received specimens 

 collected by Mr. C. Hart, Naturahst on board of H.M.S. ' Dis- 

 covery.' He obtained eight species within the Arctic Circle, three 



' Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 293. 



