LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1027 



Gelechia ADACTELLA. 



Fcem. Cuprea ; palpi capitis latitudine duplo longiores, articulo 

 2o apice subfimbriato ; abdomen cinereum ; ala? antica albce, 

 subacute?, vitta costali cuprea interrupta abbreviata albo con- 

 spersa, spatio apicali cupreo ; posticm basi albido-cinerea. 



Female. Cupreous, silvery white beneath. Palpi slender, twice 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint slightly fringed 

 in front at the tip ; third shorter than the second. Abdomen cine- 

 reous, extending very far beyond the hind wings. Tibiae and tarsi 

 with brown bands. Fore wings narrow, white, slightly acute, with 

 an interrupted and abbreviated cupreous white-speckled costal 

 stripe ; apical space cupreous ; exterior border extremely oblique. 

 Hind wings whitish cinereous towards the base. Leugth of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



I a. Australia ? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



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Gelechia apparitella. 



Fcem. Aurato-ochracea ; caput antice argenteo-albidum ; palpi 

 capitis latitudine plus triplo longiores ; antenna? nigro annu- 

 late ; a la? antica? linea basali lineuque transversa angulata 

 albis, lineis duabus exterioribus albis angulatis nigro margin- 

 atis, la nigra, 2a alba; postica? cinereo-amea?. 



Female. Gilded ochraceous, slender. Head in front and 

 under side silvery whitish. Palpi smooth, very slender, more than 

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

 as long as the second. Antennae slender, silvery white, shorter than 

 the fore wings, with a black ring on each joint. Tibiae and tarsi 

 with gilded bands. Fore wings with a silvery white line extending 

 from the base towards a transverse outwardly and very acutely 

 angular white line ; two more exterior oblique white black-bordered 

 lines, the first forming two angles, the second forming an outward 

 acute and very prominent angle ; two longitudinal subapical streaks, 

 one black, the other white. Hind wings cinereous-aeneous. Length 

 of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



