LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1023 



Male. Silvery white, slender. Palpi smooth, slender, full 

 thrice longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint setiforra, 

 very little shorter than the second. Antennae slender. Hind legs 

 long. Wings narrow. Fore wings gilded ochraceous towards the 

 tips, with a black apical point. Length of the body 1 J- line ; of the 

 wings 4 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Gelechia alternella. 



Foem. Ferrugineo-fusca ; caput antice argcnteo-cinereum ; palpi 

 capitis latitudine plus duplo longiores, ariiculo 2o fimbria 

 securiformi ; pedes robusti, tibiis posticis squamoso-pilosis ; 

 alee anticce acuta, nigricante conspersce, punctis costalibus et 

 marginalibus nigris ; posticce ceneo-fuscce. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown. Head in front and under side 

 silvery cinereous. Palpi more than twice longer than the breadth 

 of the head ; second joint with a thick securiform fringe ; third seti- 

 forui, very slender, lunger than the second. Antennae much shorter 

 than the fore wings. Legs s!out ; hind tibia? with squamous hairs. 

 Fore wings acute, moderately broad, transversely and minutely 

 blackish-speckled ,* costa with six or seven distinct oblique black 

 points, of which the last is a little beyond the middle ; some minute 

 Idack points along the apical part of the costa and along the exterior 

 border, which is straight and rather oblique. Hind wings aeneous- 

 brown. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Gelechia obligatella. 



Foem. Fuscescente-cinerea ; palpi pallide cinerei ; alee anticce sat 

 angusta, apice rotundata, maculis duabus maximis cupreo- 

 fuscis, striga apicafi parvafusca. 



Female. Brownish cinereous. Palpi pale cinereous, smooth, 

 slender, moie than twice longer than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint as long as the second. Fore wings rather narrow, rounded at 

 the tips, with two very large cupreous-brown spots; first spot inte- 

 rior, nearly triangular, resting on the interior border, not extending 

 to the costa ; second spot exterior, triangular, one of its angles 

 discal, another costal, and the third on the interior border; a minute 



