LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 655 



mostly brown, blotched with black, with a white spot on the costa 

 near the base, and with a larger and more conspicuous elliptical 

 white spot, which extends obliquely fr<»m the costa to the disk ; a 

 white transverse bent line near the tip ; exterior border extremely 

 oblique. Length of the body 2^ lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 



377. Gelechia flavidella. 



Mas. Flava ; palpi capitis latitudine multo longiores ; abdomen 

 (Bneum ; alee anticce angustce, apice rotundatce, strigu postica 

 lata fimbriaque ceneis, lineola transversa nigra ; poslicce cenece. 



Male. Yellow. Palpi smooth, curved, much longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint setiform, shorter than the second. 

 Antennae smooth, slender, much shorter than the fore wings. Ab- 

 domen, fore wings beneath and hind wings aeneous. Fore wings 

 narrow, rounded at the tips, with a broad aeneous streak along the 

 hind part towards the tip; a short black line across the inner end of 

 the streak ; fringe aeneous ; exterior border extremely oblique. 

 Length of the body 2 — 2i lines ; of the wings 5 — 6 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



378. Gelechia collitella. 



Mas. Pallide sub cer vino -cinerea ; antennce subsetulosce 1 vix mo- 

 niliformes ; pedes sat robusti; alee anticce latiusculce, cervino 

 conspersce, lituris fuscis, earum duabus exterioribus magis de- 

 terminatis, fimbria fusco spurcata. 



Male. Pale cinereous. Head, thorax and fore wings slightly 

 tinged with fawn-colour. Palpi smooth, much longer than the 

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

 second. Antennae extremely minutely setulose and moniliform, 

 much shorter than the fore wings. Legs rather stout. Wings 

 rather broad ; fringe moderately long. Fore wings slightly rounded 

 at the tips, speckled with fawn-colour, with some brown marks ; a 

 few of these before the middle ; a larger one in the exterior disk 

 and a still larger one on the costa near the tip ; fringe partly 

 tinged with brown ; exterior border very oblique. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



