LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 617 



278. Gelechia quadrifascia.. 



Mas. Obscure glauco-cuprea, robusta, subtus argentea; pedes 

 supra nigricantes, argenteo fasciati ; alee anticce latiusculce, 

 faseiis quatuor obliquis non glaucescentibus. 



Male. Dark cupreous, stout, with a glaucous tinge. Head in 

 front and under side silvery. Palpi more than twice longer than 

 the breadth of the head ; third joint setiform, much lunger than the 

 second. Antenuse very slender, shorter than the fore wings. Tibia? 

 and tarsi blackish above ; tips of the tibiae and of the joints of the 

 tarsi silvery. Wings rather broad ; fringe cinereous. Fore wings 

 acute, with four oblique bands of the ground hue ; third band 

 broader than the first and than the second; fourth slender, mar- 

 ginal ; exterior border straight, moderately oblique. Length of the 

 body Splines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



279. Gelechia canofusella. 



Mas. Nigra, chalyb&o-cinereo suffusa, sat robusta, subtus ar- 

 genteo-cinerea ; tarwrum arliculi apice argentei ; alee anticce 

 fascia submarginali nigra tineam angulosam ckalybaam in- 

 cludente ; posticce obscure cuprea. 



Male. Black, rather stout, tinged with chalybeous-cinereous. 

 Head in front and under side silvery cinereous. Palpi very slender, 

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

 setiform, longer than the second. Antenna? very slender, much 

 shorter than the fore wings. Tips of the joints of the tarsi silvery. 

 Wings broad. Fore wings acute ; submarginal band not chaly- 

 beous, but including a zigzag chalybeous line; exterior border 

 almost straight, slightly oblique. Hind wings dark cupreous. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



280. Gelechia. superella. 



Fcem. Cinereo-nigra, robusta, subtus argentea ; pedes supra 

 nigri, argenteo fasciati ; alee anticce latiuscula, faseiis quin- 

 que cupreo-nigris, \a 2a 3aque interruptis, \a obliqua, 5a 

 tenui marginali ; postica? cupreo-nigra. 



