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A new species of T'nieida. 



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II,— A NEW SPECIES OE TINEID^. 



{Gracilarin iheivora^ Wlsm., sp. nov.) 

 By LORD WALSINGHAM, F.R.S. 



Antenna, steel-grey, each joint spotted above with purple, basal 

 joint slightly enlarged, purplish. 



Labial palpi y oehreous, the apical joint tipped with fuscous benenth. 



Maxillary palpi, yellow. 



Head, shining grey above; posteriorly iridescent purple: face shin- 

 ing yellow. 



Thorax and patagia, iridescent purplish cupreous. 



Fore wings, narrow, elongated, pointed, with rounded cilia; brilliant 

 shining purplish cupreous, with a series of slightly darker and ill-defined 

 streaklets along the dorsal margin from the base to the apex : a brilli- 

 ant shining yellow triangular costal patch commences at one-fourth from 

 the base and reaches to the middle of the wing, its apex is obtusely 

 truncate before reaching the dorsal margin ; cilia brownish grey, with a 

 paler line near their base. Under side, greyish-fuscous. 



Hind wings, greyish-fuscous; cilia steel-grey, with a slight irides- 

 cent lustre. Under side, greyish fuscous. 



Abdomen, greyish above, shining yellow beneath. 



Legs, anterior, — purplish fuscous, tarsi shining white, spotted above 

 at the joints with fuscous; joos^^mor, — greyish fuscous above, tarsi in- 

 clining to oehreous, dark spotted above at the joints, spurs oehreous. 



Exp. al . 185 mm. 



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