LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1831 



Female. Cinereous. Head, thorax and fore wings blackish- 

 speckled. Palpi squamous, slightly curved upward, very much 

 longer than the breadth of the head; third joint lanceolate, much 

 shorter than the second. Antennae slender. Abdomen lanceolate, 

 extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs long, slender. Fore 

 wings slightly rounded at the tips ; speckles here and there clustering 

 and forming four incomplete bands ; exterior border slightly convex, 

 very oblique. Hind wings pale cinereous. Length of the body 

 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



Cape. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Gelechia melanophorella. 



Mas. Anthracina ; palpi erecti, verticem non superantes, articulo 

 Zo lanceolato brevi ; abdomen nigricante-cinereum ; ales an- 

 ticce latiusculce, subacutce ; posticce nigricante-cinerece. 



Male. Coal-black, blackish cinereous beneath. Palpi erect, 

 not rising higher than the vertex; third joint lanceolate, not more 

 than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae slender. 

 Abdomen and hind wings blackish cinereous. Fore wings rather 

 broad, slightly acute; exterior border convex, moderately oblique. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



tThis species differs much from the typical form of Gelechia. 

 . Sydney. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



Genus PAEASIA, C. L. H. xxix. 659. 

 Parasia paucipunctella, C. L. H. xxix. 659. 

 a. Eatisbon. From Dr. H.-Schaeffer's collection. 



Genus HOLOSCOLIA, C. L. H. xxix. 662. 



HOLOSCOLIA FORFICELLA, C. L. H. XXIX. 662. 



a. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



b. Eatisbon. From Dr. H.-Schaeffer's collection. 



Genus YPSOLOPHUS, C. L. H. xxix. 662. 

 Ypsolophus silacellus, C. L. H. xxix. 663. 

 a — c. Eatisbon. From Dr. H.-Schaeffer's collection. 



