LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 727 



Male. Pale cinereous straw-colour, hardly stout. Head white 

 and shining in front. Palpi smooth, very much longer than the 

 breadth ot the head ; third joint setifonn, black at the base and at 

 the tip, shorter than the second. Antenna? pubescent. Abdomen 

 extending much beyond the hind wings. Wings moderately broad* 

 Fore win<»s slightly rounded at the tips, with a fawn-coloured basal 

 patch, which is accompanied by black streaks; a black point in the disk 

 beyond the middle; exterior space fawn-coloured, whitish-streaked, 

 traversed by an outward-curved whitish line ; marginal points black, 

 whitish-bordered; exterior border slightly convex, hardly oblique. 

 Hind wings whitish ; exterior part tinged with pale fawn-colour. 

 Length of the body 4 \ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



63. Cryptolechia additella. 



Fcem. Pallide cervina ; caput antice albidum ; palpi capitis 

 latitudine duplo longiores ; alee anticce apice subrotundatce, 

 slrigulis punctisque discolibus indistinctis punctisque margin- 

 alibus cervinis, striga discali strigaque exteriore fuscis ; posticce 

 ceneo-fuscce. 



Female. Pale fawn-colour. Head in front, palpi, body beneath 

 and legs whitish. Palpi smooth, much curved, about twice longer 

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

 than the second. Antennae slender, much shorter than the fore 

 wings. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs smootb. Fore wings moderately broad, slightly rounded at 

 the tips, with indistinct fawn-coloured streaklets and points, some 

 of the latter forming a transverse curved exterior line; a brown 

 diseal streak near the base and a brown exterior discal streak ; mar- 

 ginal points fawn-coloured ; exterior border >lighily convex, not 

 oblique. Hind wings aeneous-brown. Leugth of the body 3£ lines ; 

 of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



64. Cryptolechia absconditella. 



Mas et foera. Pallide cervina ; alee anticce latiusculce, apice ro- 

 tundatce, striga basali punctisque duobus extcrioribus nigris^ 

 linea submarginali cinerea arcuata, punctis marginalibus 

 fuscis. Mas. — Antennce setulosce ; abdomen albidum; tibia 

 posticce sub fimbriates ; alee posticce albidce, extus subcervince. 

 ioeui. — Abdomen et alee posticce fusca. 



