500 
Lord Walsingham on 
inner side near tbe dorsal margin tlian elsewhere, its edges being, 
for the most part, speckled with black and brown scales, of which 
there is also a large patch across its middle ; beyond it, from the 
outer fourth, a cuneiform band divided by white on the costa, 
descends nearly to the anal angle ending in a point before reaching 
it, its somewhat sinuous edges defined by black and brown lines ; 
the space about the apex, as well as between the markings described, 
is very faintly mottled with pale grey ; cilia yellowish white. 
Exp, al.j 17 mm. Hindwings shining pale grey, delicately mottled 
throughout with darker grey ; cilia shining greyish white. Abdomen 
shining greyish. Legs whitish, with a slight ochreous tinge. 
Type, ? . Mus. Wlsm. 
Rah, California — Alameda Co., bred from seeds of 
Cupressus macrocarpa, 24th January, 1886. (Received 
from Dr. C. Y. Eiley, No. 46, 1886.) 
OLETEEETJTINM {OLETHREUTJE, Hb.) Wlsm. emend. 
= OBAPHOLITHINJE, Fern. = EPIBLEMIDjE, Meyr. 
Penthina, Tr. 
Penthina melanos^idaj sp. n. 
Antenna: greyish fuscous. Palpi black, with some white scales 
beneath. Head whitish, mixed with fuscous and ferruginous 
scales. Thorax black, the ends of the tegulse white. Forewings 
white, with numerous black and blue-grey blotches mixed with 
some ferruginous scales, especially about the apex and apical 
margin ; these blotches are distributed in an ill-defined basal patch 
extending to one-fourth (partially connected by greyish mottling 
with a broad central fascia, interrupted on vein 2), and also 
about the apex and more sparingly before and above the anal 
angle ; there are three costal spots beyond the central fascia, a 
blue-grey spot beyond the end of the cell, and a short band of the 
same colour nearly parallel with the upper half of the apical 
margin ; cilia dark greyish fuscous with a black line along their 
base and some white speckling at their outer extremities. Under- 
side greyish fuscous, the outer half of the costal margin cream- 
white with three fuscous spots. Exp. al., 24 mm. Hindwings 
brownish; cilia somewhat paler, with a dark dividing line near their 
base. Underside dirty whitish, the margins shaded with fuscous. 
