290 Mr, Newman's Characters 



Genus Adela, Latreille. 

 Sp. 1, Adela Laurella, Newman. 



Alls anticis cupreo-ceneis Icete ignitis, fascid laid mediand nigrd 

 flavo-striatd, pone medium lumine mutato Icete chalybeis, ciliis 

 n'lgris ; posticis nigris, ciliis concoloiihiis. (Alarum dilat. 

 •5 unc.) 



Base of antennae, tippets and fore wings golden coppery, bril- 

 liantly metallic ; the wings have a broad central fascia, the ground 

 colour of which is black, but its hue modified by the number of 

 pale yellow longitudinal striae, with which it is half occupied, 

 beyond this the hue of the scales is changeable with the altered 

 position in which the insect is held, sometimes becoming of the 

 most gorgeous metallic green ; the cilia are quite black ; hind 

 wings, together with their cilia, entirely black. 



The antennae of this beautiful little insect, being broken off close 

 to the base, it is impossible to say what characters they may have 

 possessed. It is not closely allied to any described species, but 

 has some slight resemblance to Nematois fasciellus. Only one 

 example was taken. 



Genus Anesychia, Stephens. 

 Sp. ]. Anesychia Stella, Newman. (I'l. XVIII. fig. 5.) 



Alis anticis cineraceis casta late nigricanti, strigd latd stihcostaU 

 vix bene determinald, necnon maculis difformibus nigris interrvptd 

 albidd, spatio anteapicali intus acuminato plumbeo-nigricanti, 

 maculis linearibus parvis octo in crescenti dispositis ante margi- 

 nem externum nigris; posticis sericatis, cinereis concoloribus, 

 (Alarum dilat. "9 — 1 unc.) 



Head, palpi, antennae, thorax and abdomen grey ; fore wings 

 also grey, with the costa broadly black ; beneath the black costa 

 is a white vitta, originating at the base and extending to the costa 

 near its apex ; this white vitta is interrupted ; first, by a black mark 

 at its base; secondly, by an obliquely transverse fascia at about 

 one-third of its length ; thirdly, by a spot on its anterior, and, 

 fourthly, by another on its posterior margin ; the space between 

 this white vitta and the inner margin of the wing is greyish white, 

 almost concolorous with the vitta itself; the aj)ical area of the wing 

 is blackish grey, the darker hue preponderating towards the disk, 

 and centrally produced into an acute angle, the lighter towards the 



