'^4 CATALOGUE OF 



56. Cryptolechia? subnotatella. 

 Mas. Subflavescente-albida; palpi capitis latitudine multa 

 longwres,articulo2oextwfusco; antenna pubescentes ; alee 

 anticce apice rotundatce, punctis quatuor discalibus duobusque 

 costalibus nigricantibus. 



Male Whitish. Head, thorax and fore wings with a very 

 slight buff t,nge. Palpi smooth, rising a little higher than the vertex 

 very much longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint brown 

 on the outer side, except towards the tip; third lanceolate, nearly 

 as long as the second. Antenna? minutely pubescent, much shorter 

 than the fore wuigs. Abdomen extending much hevond the hind 

 wings Legs smooth. Fore wings rounded at the tips; three 

 blackish points in a line along the disk; an elongated blackish dot 

 between the first and second points, but nearer the interior border; 

 two blackish costal points, the first nearly opposite the dot; eosta 

 and exterior border very slightly convex, the latter hardly oblique. 

 Lengto of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



57. Cryptolechia leucoph^eella. 

 Fcem. Argenteo-alba, sat robusta ; abdomen nigrum, alas posticus 

 vix superans ; pedes breviusculi, tibiis posticis Jimbriatis ; alee 

 postica aneo -nigra, fimbria cinerea. 



Female. Silvery white, rather stout. Palpi smooth, slender, 

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

 shorter than the second. Antenna? black. Abdomen black, hardly 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Legs short ; hind tibia fringed. 

 VVinos broad. Fore wings slightly acute; exterior border straight, 

 slightly oblique; under side and hind wings asneous-black ; fringe 

 of the latter cinereous. Length of the bodv U lines; of the wimrs 

 JO lines. * 6 



a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



58. Cryptolechia aratella. 

 Mas. Albida; palporum articnlus 2us subfimbriatus, 3us basi 

 nigricans; antenna subpubescentes ; thorax fuscescens ; alee 

 antica postice fuscescentes, strigis plagaque postica nigri- 

 cantibus. 



