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ending in a flattened conical cremaster, bearing three pairs of hooks, the distal pair 
of which are very much the largest and the innermost pair the smallest. The body 
is mottled and speckled, with a diffuse lateral dark line along the side of the abde- 
men. The five pairs of spiracles visible are black. The wings are slightly striped 
with dark specks. A median dark ventral longitudinal abdominal band, and a dor- 
sal irregular dark band. . 
STEPS TOWARDS A REVISION OF CHAMBERS’S INDEX, WITH NOTES 
AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES. 
By Lorp WALSINGHAM. 
[Continued from p. 389, Vol. 111. ] 
HELIODININ&. 
Heliodines Stn. 
Heliodines Stn., Ins. Brit. Lp., 248 (1854): Type Tinea roesella, L. 
= tole Chamb., Can. Ent., vil, 73 (1875): Type -£tole bella Chamb. 
(= tole W1sm.; = dlole Chamb.; — lola (Frey) Hen.) 
1. Heliodines bella Chamb. 
tole bella, Chamb. Can. Ent., vu, 73-4 (1875): rx, 72 (1877). 
Bull. U. 8. GG. Surv., m1, 144 (1877): Jr. Cin. Soc., N. H., 11, 199, 204, Fig. 54 
(1880). 
#lole bella, Chamb. Bull. U. 8. GG. Surv, Iv, 128 (1878). 
tole bella, Wism. Pr. Zodl. Soc., Lond., 1881, 324, Fig. 1. 
Htola bella (Frey) Hgn. Pap., Iv, 154 (1884). 
Imago: August (Chamb.). 
Hab: Texas (Chamb.); Colorado, Denver (Chamb.); California, Los Angeles Co. 
(Wlsm). 
A specimen of this species from Los Angeles was submitted to me for examination 
by Dr. Riley in 1877. 
2. Heliodines tripunctella, sp. n. 
Antenne, gray. 
Palpi, shining gray, slightly paler than the head. 
Head and face, shining gray. 
Thorax, gray; beneath, bright orange on the sides. 
Fore wings, bright orange, with a small gray spot at the extreme base of the costal 
margin, followed by twe costal spots, one before, the other at about the middle; 
the first of these is preceded by a similar spot on the dorsal margin; these three 
spots are all shining metallic steel-gray and from the outer costal spot proceeds 
a shining gray band which follows the costal margin to the apex, and passing 
around it at the base of the gray cilia, reaches along the dorsal margin to a point 
opposite the middle space between the two costal spots. Underside bronzy 
brown. 
Hind wings, bronzy brown; cilia brownish gray. Underside bronzy brown. 
Abdomen, orange tipped with gray at the extreme apex. Underside gray. 
Legs, brownish fuscous with obscure pale bands on the hind tibie. 
Exp. al: 9mm. 
Hab: Texas. (Belfrage, three specimens, two of which are from the Zeller collection.) 
Type 2 Mus. Wism. 
