612 CATALOGUE OF 



purpuream nigro marginatam includente, punctis basalibus 

 purpureis, spatio marginali nigro strigas ires purpureas in- 

 cludente ; posticce basi albce. 



Male. Cupreous, slender. Head metallic-blue; front and 

 under side of the body silvery. Palpi more than twice longer than 

 the breadth of the head; third joint longer than the second. An- 

 tennae shorter than the fore wings. Legs rather stout, black above ; 

 tips of the femora, of the tibiae, of the joints of the tarsi and spurs 

 silvery ; tibiae with a silvery band. Fore wings narrow, rounded at 

 the tips, with a broad gilded red band, which emits a streak to the 

 exterior border, and is bounded on the inner side by an oblique 

 purple line; some purple points towards the base, and an oblique 

 purple black-bordered streak in the band - ; space beyond the band 

 black, with three purple streaks ; exterior border very oblique. 

 Hind wings white towards the base, except in front. Length of the 

 body 2 lines; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. b. Esra. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



269. Gelechia perlatella. 



Mas. Obscure cuprea, subtus argentea ; caput viride ; abdomen 

 nigro fasciatum, apice cupreum ; pedes supra nigricantes, 

 argenteo fasciati ; alee anticce basi virides, fasciis duabus 

 obliguis ceneo-cinereis. 



Male. Dark cupreous, slender. Head, fore part of the thorax 

 and base of the costa of the fore wings bright metallic-green. Head 

 in front and under side silvery. Palpi very slender, more than 

 twice longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint longer than 

 the second. Antenna? very slender, shorter than the fore wings. 

 Abdomen with a black band on the fore border of each segment ; 

 apical tuft cupreous. Tibia? and tarsi blackish above; anterior 

 tibia? with two silvery bands; joints of the anterior tarsi with silvery 

 tips; hind tibiae silvery at the base and at the tips. Wings narrow; 

 fringe cinereous. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with two oblique 

 aeneous-cinereous bands, one near the base, the other in the middle ; 

 exterior border very oblique. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



a, b. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



