LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 627 



much shorter than the fore wings. Legs slender, wholly pale. Fore 

 wings rather broad, hardly acute; costa at the base and rather less 

 than one-fourth of the surface from the exterior border purplish 

 aeneous; a point on the costa of the same hue at two-thirds of the 

 length; exterior border hardly oblique. Hind wings aeneous- 

 cinereous. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. Ega. ■ From Mr. Bates' collection. 



300. Gelechia intentella. 



Fcem. Aurato-ochracea, subtus argentea ; palporum arliculus 2us 

 apice fimbriatus ; abdomen nigricans ; pedes argentei, nigri- 

 cante fasciati ; alee antiece fasciis quatuor purpurascenlibus, 

 la Saque inlerruptis, 2a antice furcata, 3a 4aque connexis, 

 punctis marginalibus nigris. 



Female. Gilded ochraceous. Head in front and under side silvery. 

 Palpi thrice longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint fringed 

 above towards the tip; third setiform, nearly as long as the first. 

 Antennae slender, much shorter than the fore wings. Abdomen and 

 hind wings blackish. Legs silvery ; tibiae with two blackish bands ; 

 joints of the tarsi blackish towards the base. Fore wings mode- 

 rately broad, slightly acute, with four irregular purplish bands; 

 first and third bands interrupted; first basal; second forked in 

 front; fourth connected on the interior border with the third; a row 

 of black points along the apical part of the costa and along the 

 exterior border, which is slightly convex and oblique. Length of 

 the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



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



Madeira Isles. 

 301. Gelechia pulchra. 

 pulchra, Wltn. 

 Dezerta Grande. 



302. Gelechia nigromaculata. 

 nigromaculata, Wltn. 

 Madeira and Southern Dezerta. 



