622 CATALOGUE OF 



Female, Fawn-colour. Head in front and under side silvery. 

 Palpi rather stout, much longer than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint setif«>rm, shorter than the second. Antennae much shorter than 

 the fore wings. Abdomen and hind wings blackish. Legs wholly 

 pale. Fore wings rather broad, somewhat rounded at the tips, with 

 a broad darker fawn-coloured band, which is abbreviated towards 

 the costa and emits an oblique streak outward ; this streak ap- 

 pioaches the hind end of an elongated submarginal spot of the 

 same hue. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



289. Gelechia propriella. 



Mas. Cervina, subtus argenteo-cinerea ; palpi cervino trifasciati; 



antenna subserratce ; alee anticm fusciis duabus obliquis argen- 



■ teis, tinea apud marginem interior em strigaque lata subapicali 



ochraceis, kae lineolam nigram includente, spatio marginali 



argenteo ; postica? anece. 



Male. Fawn-colour, slender. Head in front and under side 

 silvery cinereous. Palpi about thrice longer than the breadth of 

 the head; second joint with two pale fawn-coloured bands; third 

 setiiorm, pale fawn-coloured, except at the base, a little longer than 

 the second. An ten nee slender, very minutely serrated, as long as 

 the fore wings. Wings narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips, 

 with two oblique silvery bands, one near the base, the other in the 

 middle; an irregular ochraceous line along the interior border, and 

 an ochraceous short broad subapical streak, which contains a little 

 black line ; marginal space mostly silvery. Hind wings aeneous. 

 Length of the body "2\ lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



2iK). Gelechia scjperatella. 



Ferrvginea, subtus argentea ; palpi fusco trifasciati; antennce 

 setulosce ; prdes robusti, tibiis posticis fimbriating tarsis pos- 

 ticis fusco fasciatis ; olee anticce fasciis duabus lineaque antica 

 duplicuta oblir/uis argenteis % striyip ochraceis liturisque argen- 

 teis el nigris submarginalibus ; posticus ameo-cinerece. 



Ferruginous. Head in front and under side silvery. Palpi 

 nearly thrice longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint 

 with two brown bands ; third brown, setiform, silvery at the base, 

 Deafly as long as the second. Antenna? minutely setulose. Legs 

 stout; hind tibiae thickly fringed; hind tarsi with brown bands. 



