LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. i 757 



Crambus BRACHYPTERELLUS. 



Mas. Argenteo-albus, robustus ; palpi aurato-ochraceo vittati, 

 capitis latitudine multo longiores, articulo 3o lanceolato 2o 

 paullo breviore ; antenna crassce, vix pubescentes ; pedes aurato- 

 ochraceo vittati ; alee untied breves, lata, apice rectangulatce, 

 linea marginali aurata abbreviata, margine exteriore recto vix 

 obliquo. 



Male. Silvery white, stout. Palpi smooth, much longer than 

 the breadth of the head, with a gilded ochraceous stripe on the outer 

 side ; third joint lanceolate, rounded at the tip, a litile shorter than 

 the second. Antenna? very stout, hardly pubescent. Legs stout, 

 striped with gilded ochraceous. Wings short, broad. Fore wings 

 rectangular at the tips, with a gilded marginal line, which extends 

 along half the length of the straight, hardly oblique exterior border ; 

 under side aeneous. Length of the body 4? lines; of the wings 

 10 Hues. 



a. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



Crambus? fgedkllus. 



Fcem. Subcervino-cinercus ; palpi robusti, capitis latitudine paullo 

 longiores, articulo 3a lanceolato 2t dimidio breviore; abdomen 

 alas posticas longissime superans ; pedes vaiidi ; aim anticcB 

 longa?, apice rotundattc, strigis nonnullis postmediis pnnctisque 

 marginali bus nigris, margine exteriore perobliquo ; posticce 

 pallide aurato-cinerece. 



Female. Cinereous, with a slight tinge of fawn-colour. Frontal 

 tuft prominent. Palpi stout, a little longer than the breadth of the 

 head ; third joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the second. 

 Maxillary palpi more than half the length of the labial palpi, to 

 which they are closely applied. Antenna? slender. Abdomen 

 extending very much beyond the hind win^s. Legs stout. Wings 

 long. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with black interrupted streaks 

 along the veins towards the exterior border; marginal points black, 

 transversely elongated; exterior border convex, very oblique. Hind 

 wings pale gilded cinereous. Length of the body 8 lines; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



Flores. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



