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patngia dark brown ; fore wings brown, very silky, and when the 

 insect is held in a certain position having a golden effulgence ; their 

 entire surface is sprinkled with paler markings ; in the centre of 

 the disk is a diaphanous spot, pale ochreoiis or alnnost white, and 

 the inner margin of the wing throughout its entire length is tes- 

 taceous yellow, forming, when the wings are closed, a conspicuous 

 vitta down the back ; the cilia are testaceous yellow ; hind wings 

 glossy light brown, rather paler at the base, the cilia also are 

 paler ; beneath, the wings are particularly silky and glittering, 

 they are brown, with paler margins and cilia. 



Three specimens were taken of this pretty Tinea ; it forcibly 

 reminds one of Tinea fcrruginella, but is larger, and the cilia of 

 the fore wings are yellow. 



Genus Bondia, Newman. 



Caput mediocre rotundatum, fronte laevigato. Antennae setaceae, 

 valde pilosae ; labipalpi mediocres, articulo basali inviso, 2do incras- 

 sato, pyriformi, 3tio brevi, erecto, parvo, obtuso. Alae anticae 

 vix latae, fere lineares, angulo anali nullo modo producto, ciliis 

 mediocribus ; posticae basi amplae, apice acutae, ante apicem paul- 

 lulo emarginatae. 



I am not acquainted with any genus of Tineadce with which 

 this insect can well be associated, although the structure of the 

 wings is somewhat as in Gelechia, the labial palpi preclude the idea 

 of placing it in that genus. I venture, therefore, to propose a 

 new genus for its reception, and this I have pleasure in dedicating 

 to Mr. F. Bond, one of the most zealous and most accomplished 

 of our Lepidopterists. 



Sp. 1. Bondia Nigella, Newman. 



yllis anlicis nigrix, vestigio mediano pallida literam C formnnte 

 signatis ; posticis fere hyalinis, ajncibus fuliginosis. (Alarum 

 dilat. '675 unc.) 



Head, palpi and antennae black ; fore wings black, with several 

 tufts of raised black scales with a pale testaceous discal mark on 

 each rather beyond the middle, and resembling the letter C, which 

 faces the apex ; the cilia are black, and at the anal angle rather 

 long; the hind wings are nearly hyaline, the apices and cilia smoke- 

 coloured; beneath the upper wings are dull lead-coloured, the cilia 

 darker ; hind wings rather paler, with the cilia concolorous. 



There is but a single specimen, and this in many particulars, 

 reminds one of Gelechia (Elhiops, 



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