LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCE RA. 
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with purple and green reflections. Fore wings slightly rounded 
at the tips, with numerous transverse brown streaks for more than 
half the length from the base ; exterior part with fawn-coloured 
points, and with a short brighter fawn-coloured submarginal band, 
which contains four deep black streaks, and terminates hindward in 
a fawn-coloured circle ; costa and exterior border very slightly con- 
vex, the latter very slightly oblique. Hind wings blackish brown; 
fringe cinereous. Length oi the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 
a. Ega. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
16. CARPOCAPSA ATROCHALYB.EANA. 
Mas. Nigra , subtus alba ; thorax lineis transversis chalybceis ; 
tibice posticce subdilatatce ; abdomen f us cum ; alee anticce apice 
subrotundatce , lineis nonnullis chalybceis transversis undulatis 
ex parte connexis , strigis costalibus chalybceis ; posticce f us cce, 
chalybceo fimbriatce. 
Male. Black. Body beneath, femora and hind tibiae white, 
the latter slightly dilated and fringed. Palpi porrect, obtuse, hardly 
extending beyond the head ; third joint extreinly short. Antennae 
stout, minutely setulose. Thorax with chalybeous transverse lines. 
Abdomen brown, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Fore 
wings slightly rounded at the tips, with several irregular undulating 
partly connected chalybeous lines ; costa very slightly convex, with 
three groups of oblique chalybeous streaks ; exterior border slightly 
convex and oblique. Hind wings brown ; fringe chalybeous. Length 
of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9^ lines. 
a. Ega. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
17. Carpocapsa descriptana. 
Mas. Albido-cinerea, cervino pallido subtincta; alee sat angusUe , 
subtus nigricante-cinerece ; anticce nigricante strigatce , apice 
rectangulatce, plagis duabus posticis nigricantibus ,vitta costali 
rufescente-cervina , strigulis costalibus obliquis albidis , lineola 
submarginali postica c/ialybcea ; strigulis duabus submar- 
ginalibus atris ; posticce nigricante-cinerece . 
Male. Whitish cinereous, slightly tinged with pale fawn- 
colour. Antennae smooth. Abdomen extending beyond the hind 
wings. Wings rather narrow, blackish cinereous beneath. Fore 
wings rectangular at the tips, minutely and transversely blackish 
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