( 339 XV. Heterocerous Lepidoptera collected in Chili hy Thomas Edmonds, Esq. By Akthue G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Eead June 7th, 1882.] Part III.— GEOMETRITES. Plate XVI. There is great difficulty in deciding how many species of Geometrites exist in this collection, as it is impossible, without the most careful breeding, to be certain to what extent many of the species are liable to variation ; were I to accept, on the one hand, the views of the collector, the amount of variation represented by some species would be so extraordinary as even to invalidate generic characters ; form of wing, pattern, and coloration would in short entirely fail to define a species. On the other hand, were I to follow the plan adopted by.M. Guenee in his " PhaUnites," of considering as specific nearly every difference of coloration, I should undoubtedly go too far; this error, however, would in my opinion be preferable to the former. I therefore propose to follow a middle course, and regard as distinct all forms ex- hibiting differences in such characters as have hitherto been considered generic ; and all in which the position of markings or the entire style of coloration is dis- similar. The series before me is a remarkably fine one, and is an evidence of the indefatigable energy and zeal with which Mr. Edmonds has worked : so fine a series must of necessity include the greater part, if not all, of the species known to M. Blanchard, when preparing his descriptions for Gay's ' Fauna Chilena ' ; unhappily, however, these descriptions are so vague, I might almost say careless, and the illustrations in the Atlas are so exceedingly inaccurate, that it is impossible in many instances to decide whether or not one possesses the species intended. TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1882. PART III. (SEPT.) 2 Y 340 Mv. A, G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera That it may be seen that I do not speak without reason, I shall just give one instance of an utter dis- crepancy between the Latin diagnosis and the Spanish description of the same insect ; M. Blanchard, describing the secondaries of his Larentia triangularia (which by the way is probably not a Larentia at all), says first of all, after mentioning that there are two little sinuated lines across the primaries, "posticis, Unca simillima" ; but in his description he says, "las alas posteriores redondeadas igualmente con dos lineas transversales." Such inaccuracies as the above, although they may not in all cases prevent the student from recognising his species, must at least give him a considerable feeling of insecurity as regards the correctness of his identifications, and particularly when the species apparently best suited to a description belongs to a family widely distinct from that in which the author before him has placed his insect ; if, therefore, I have erred either in my identifi- cations or non-recognitions of M. Blanchard's species, I can only say that the fault lies with that author and not with myself. Very few species have been described since the pub- lication of Gay's work, even Walker not having touched them, at any rate so far as the present collection is con- cerned : the greater number of additions has been made by Felder and Kogenhofer in the ' Eeise der Fregatte Novara.' The following is a list of the species : — * UEAPTEBID^. GONOGALA, n. g. Allied to Urapteryx, but the wings of the same form as Tetrads ; the antennae and coloration corresponding with Metrocampa margaritata : wings rather narrow, with angulated outer margins ; body extremely slender, hardly extending beyond the secondaries ; antennae finely pectinated on both sides; palpi very small, scarcely extending at all in front of the head ; anterior tibiae with lateral internal appressed pencil of long hairs ; both legs and proboscis long and slender. * Mr. Edmonds informs me that the focahty "Las Zouas" shoukl be written "Las Zorras"; in Enghsh, "The foxes." It is a small subm-b of Valparaiso. collected in Chili. 341 1. Gonogala lactca, n. s. Shining milky-white, the head, collar, and borders of the wings slightly tinted with sulphur-yellow ; the abdomen jDale gamboge-yellow, excepting at the ex- tremities ; wings mottled with pale greyish ; primaries with two widely-separated white-bordered divergent grey stripes, between which is a short disco-cellular dash of the same colour ; secondaries with oblique stripe beyond the middle ; wings below with the grey stripes less distinct, the outer one of primaries commencing upon the costal border in a reddish brown spot ; wings with minute ferruginous dots at the extremities of the ner- vures. Expanse of wings, 37 mm. Exact locality not indicated. The No. (" 63 ") is omitted from Mr. Edmonds' notes. Many of the genera hitherto placed in the Urapteiidce seem to me to belong to the Ennomidce. Guenee's genus Chcerodes (type C. tetragonata) includes species referable in my opinion to both families ; the species with angu- lated primaries should be transferred to Eutropela and Sa- hulodes. M. Guenee calls Chcerodes " Genre tres-naturel," yet places in it species with triangular primaries and subcaudate secondaries, along with others in which all the wings are angulated ; the name Chcerodes is pre- occupied in Coleoptera. ENNOMID^. OxYDiA, Guenee. 2. Oxydia rhoda, n. s. g- . Eosy brown; wings with a lilacine gloss; crossed from the costal margin, close to apex of primaries, to the middle of the abdominal margin of secondaries by an oblique mahogany-brown stripe, elbowed and attenuated at its upper extremity; primaries with mahogany-brown fringe, and bright rust-red costal border ; secondaries with ferruginous fringe ; basal area above the oblique stripe paler than the rest of the wing, not glossed with lilac ; head and middle of collar dull lilac ; antennge pale reddish clay-coloured ; thorax whitish, tegulae lilacine ; abdomen rosy; under surface paler; the primaries more ferruginous in tint from the base to the oblique stripe, which is abbreviated and ferruginous; a black disco- 342 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera cellular dot ; secondaries lilacine-greyish, very pale, the stripe extremely indistinct ; a small black disco-cellular spot ; pectus greyish white ; legs whity-brown ; venter dull lilacine-grey. Expanse of wings, 45 mm. " Coral, Valdivia, in February." — T. E. Only one example of this beautiful and very distinct species is in the collection. AcBOSEMiA, Herr.-Sch. 3 . A crosemia flavaria. ^ Ennada fiavaria, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Fauna Chilena,' vii., p. 87, n. 1 ; pi. 7, fig. 3 (1852-4). "Las Zorras, December and January." — T. E. M. Blanchard figures an unusually pale male, most examples being decidedly less yellow ; the female, how- ever, is bright orange, flecked with ash-grey, with the central belt of the primaries and basal two-fifths of the secondaries bright gamboge-yellow. With this species the following was placed ; but if it be a variety of A. flavaria it is a well-marked one, and certainly worthy of a distinct appellation. 4. Acrosemia quietaria. (? Acrotomia. quietaria, Felder and Rogenhofer, Eeise der Fregatte Novara, v., pi. cxxiii., fig. 19 (1875). " Las Zorras, December and January." — T. E. The female, as might have been anticipated, is brighter • and more deeply coloured than that sex of A. flavaria, but in other respects corresponds with its male. (? var. With ground colour of the wings pale greyish stone, with the post-median oblique stripe sharply defined as in A. flavaria, greyish brown internally and cream- colour externally ; the inner line ill-defined, scarcely perceptible. .1. quietaria seems to be about as common as A. flavaria. Apigia, Guenee. 5. Apicia valdiviana, n, s. Pale pearl-grey, shading into cream-colour, almost white ; the wings crossed from near their apices to just collected in Chili. 343 beyond the middle of their inner margins by an externally diffused pale violet stripe, dotted upon the veins with red-brown ; apical fourth of the secondaries also slightly tinted with pearly violaceous ; primaries with a black dot at the end of the ceil, and a second at the basal third of the submedian vein ; costal margin and antennae rusty orange ; body slightly cream-coloured ; under sur- face sienna-red ; wings crossed by a greyish violet stripe, and flecked towards the external border with the same colour ; primaries with a bright yellow costal streak ; base of costal margin red; internal border creamy white; secondaries with the abdominal area up to the median vein gamboge-yellow, but divided by the violet-grey stripe and with sienna-red external border ; venter and legs flesh-tinted. Expanse of wings, 38 mm. " Valdivia, from Eeed's collection." — T. E. Syncirsodes, n. g. Aspect of Cirsodes ; outline of wings as in Apicia, the outer margins being rounded, with scarcely perceptible subangulation at the extremity of the third median branch on all the wings ; body unusually slender, the antennae filiform ; legs rather stout, 6. Syncirsodes straminea, n. s. Pale straw-yellow ; the thorax, base of abdomen, and basal area of the wings sprinkled with a few black scales ; primaries crossed by two ill-defined ochraceous stripes, oblique and sub-parallel, the first across the basal third, the second, which is bounded internally by a deeper- coloured line, running from apex to just beyond the middle of inner margin ; a greyish subapical dash upon the oblique line ; secondaries whitish on the costal and basal areas, crossed beyond the middle by two very ill-defined subparallel stramineous stripes a little deeper than the ground colour, the inner one bounded internally by an indistinct ochraceous line, straight, abbreviated, not reaching the costal margin, the outer one slightly undulated ; head white, antennae pearly whitish ; wings below sericeous straw-yellow, more densely mottled with blackish scales towards the base than on the upper surface ; stripes as above, but greyish, the outer one of the primaries formed of two closely approximated greyish 344 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Leindoptera stripes, slightly diverging from the apex to the first median branch, where the outer one terminates abruptly; abdominal border of secondaries whitish; body stra- mineous. Expanse of wings, 45 mm. " From Eeed's collection."— T. E. EuMiA, Diqjon. 7. Rumia aurantiacaria. Ruviia aurantiacaria, Blanchard, in Gay's ' Fauna Chilena,' vii., p. 90, n. 1 ; pi. 7, fig. 7 (1852-4). No exact locality noted. The female is much more densely mottled and striated with red-brown and grey than the male. Var. simplicior. ^ . Differs from the typical form in having only a minute blackish dot, or even nothing, in place of the large black-edged grey spot on the internal border, near the external angle of primaries. Four examples in the collection. Perusia, Herr.-Sch. 8. Perusia prcscisaria. ^ Perusia prcecisaria, Herrich-Schaffer, Auss. Schmett. fig. 415 (1850—69). ? Numeria ? inusta, Felder and Eogenhofer, Reise der Fregatte Novara, v., pi. cxxix., fig. 11 (1875). The No. (" 63 ") is omitted from Mr. Edmonds' notes, so that I cannot tell the exact locality of this and the following forms placed with them. Var. ? conspersa. (PI. XVI., fig. 1). 3- . Smaller than the ordinary male, the yellow areas on the primaries mottled all over with ferruginous. Expanse of wings, 22 mm. The male figured by Herrich-Schaffer from Venezuela rather more nearly approaches the female than the males before me, the discal grey-bordered red belt being narrower, and separated at its inferior extremity from the interno-basal patch ; in the five typical Chilian males collected by Mr. Edmonds the band and patch are confluent, the former being about twice the width of that in Herrich-Schaft'er's example. collected in Chili. 345 The following two species must, I think, be distinct, though associated with P. pnecisaria in the collection ; the grey bands on the under surface of the primaries are absent from both of them, though very conspicuous in P. pnecisaria ; from one another they differ in pattern on the upper surface, and that in a very marked degree. 9. Perusia ruhripicta, n. s. (? , 2 . Primaries above deep gamboge-yellow, irro- rated with red, most densely on the basal and external thirds, which are bounded by ill-defined lines of the same red colour converging towards the inner margin ; a minute grey dot at the end of the cell ; male with the costa near apex flecked with grey ; female with an almost pyriform lilac-bordered grey subapical costal spot ; secondaries sericeous-white, with sulphur-yellow fringe ; internal margin slightly rosy, with white fringe ; thorax gamboge-j^ellow, with a central red spot ; head white ; abdomen pearly white ; under surface shining creamy white ; costal and apical areas of wings yellow ; a short diffused oblique red apical dash on the primaries, male with the costal margin blackish at apex. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. (? , Var. ? ignescens. The primaries above shining reddish golden-yellow, mottled with grey; fringe, costal margin, and base of inner margin gamboge-yellow ; antennae dull yellowish ; head and thorax yellow ; a reddish spot at the base of each tegula, and a triangular patch of the same over the centre of the metathorax and base of abdomen, the latter flesh-tinted ; discoidal area of primaries on the under side mottled with grey, and slightly tinted with rose- colour. Expanse of wings, 23 mm. I feel some doubt as to the identity of this form with P. ruhripicta ; but there is only one example of it in the collection, so it seems safer for the present to regard it as a remarkable variety ; there are also two males of what I should think are undoubted varieties of P. ruhri- picta, but which differ from the typical form in having the basal and external areas much less densely irrorated or mottled with red (the external area being in fact almost wholly yellow), and in the limiting lines of these areas being spotted here and there with grey, the outer 346 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepictoptera line commencing upon the costa in a more or less defined triangular patch of red scales ; it approaches P. citrinata of Snellen, from Jamaica. 10. Perusia maculata, n. s. hax gnoma, n. s. $ . Primaries semitransparent emerald-green, with slender white costal margin ; a deeper green disco - cellular dot; secondaries semitransparent white, greenish at anal angle ; top of head and antennae cream-coloured ; thorax green ; abdomen white ; wings below pale green ; costal margin of primaries cream-coloured, becoming ochreous at the base ; face crossed in front of the antennae by a triangular carmine patch ; front of face flesh- coloured ; anterior legs rose-red, other legs cream- coloured ; body below snow-white. Expanse of wings, 30—36 mm. " Las Zorras, in December and January." — T. E. The smaller form seems to be more numerous than the larger. 368 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerom Lepidoptera EPHYKID^. Ephyea, Duponchel. 42. EpJiyra semirosea, n. s. Wings, above dull rose-colour, with the basal and external fourths cream-coloured, bounded by the ordinary lines, which are greyish brown, dotted upon the veins with black ; the costal border, excepting at base and apex, an angulated continuous stripe just beyond the cell and parallel to the outer line, and a macular inter- rupted submarginal stripe, greyish brown ; a white spot at the end of each discoidal cell ; a marginal series of short, slender, black lines : body cream-coloured ; under surface shining white ; wings with discal and marginal lines as above ; primaries slightly greyish. Expanse of wings, 21 — 25 mm. " Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. With this species were five examples referable to the following, though I think it not impossible that the latter may be merely a dimorphic type of E. semirosea. 43. Ephyra notigera, n. s. Whity-brown, with chocolate-brown lines and stripes formed exactly as in the preceding species, excepting that the outer line of the secondaries is a little more acutely angular ; similar white spots with red-brown edges at the end of the discoidal cells ; submarginal in- terrupted stripe varying from dark greyish chocolate to pale grey, wanting altogether in the female ; costal bor- der of primaries speckled with blackish ; wings below sericeous-white, with the markings of the upper surface, but the stripes greyer than above ; primaries with flesh- coloured costal border ; basal half of wing grey ; body below shining grey, with pale pink shining legs. Expanse of wings, 21 — 22 mm. "Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. Allied to E. pendularia. 44. Ephyra nmhrata,, n. s. Allied to E. orhk-ulata ; flesh-coloured, densely mottled and striated with grey ; wings crossed just beyond the basal fourth by a black-dotted sinuated grey line, in the collected in Chili. 369 middle by an imperfect grey streak, and towards outer margin by two parallel arched grey stripes ; an angulated series of black spots beyond the cell ; semicircular blackish-edged white spots at the end of the discoidal cells ; wings below shining leaden grey, crossed by a discal series of black points ; body pale sericeous-brown. Expanse of wings, 24 — 26 mm. "Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. The under surface of the wings is almost metallic. IDMIDM. The species described by Blanchard as Acidalic? are in reality referable to Psamatodcs ; I have already stated that the name Acidalia is preoccupied in the Butterflies, and cannot, therefore, be used here. Chlorotimandra, n. g. Allied to Timandra ; primaries broad, falcate, with the outer margin strongly angulated at the extremity of the third median branch and deeply sinuate between the latter and the apex ; secondaries small and narrow, the apex formed at the extremity of the first subcostal branch ; the neuration of these wings is extremely simple in the male, the costal vein does not reach the apex, the two subcostal branches are placed upon a long foot-stalk ; the discoidal cell is short, with very oblique disco- cellulars, from the middle of which springs the radial ; the median vein is quite simple or one-branched, and takes the position usually occupied by the submedian; the latter is extremely short, and represents the internal vein of other moths ; neuration of the female quite normal ; body long and slender ; antennae of male serrate-moniliform, not pectinated. 45. Chlorotimandra viridis, n. s. 3- . Primaries above bright sap-green ; costal margin, two parallel transverse costal dashes, and the sinuated portion of the fringe, purplish brown ; two nearly parallel oblique central olivaceous lines, dotted with white upon the veins ; secondaries greyish brown, with slight bronze reflections and purplish brown fringe ; thorax sap-green ; 370 Mr, A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera antennse bronze-brown ; abdomen rosy brownish ; wings below pale green, mottled with grey ; fringe j)urplish brown, excepting towards the external angle of the primaries and the apex of the secondaries, where it is brassy yellowish, but spotted with purplish on the primaries ; on these wings also there are three purplish costal spots, from the second of which a brown discal stripe crosses the wing ; body below pink. Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 2 . Above pale green ; the primaries darker than the secondaries, especially towards the outer margin ; the costal margin speckled and spotted with dark purplish brown, the fringe purplish, excepting towards the external angle ; the transverse central lines wider apart than in the male, creamy white with dark sap-green margins ; a black dot at the end of the cell ; secondaries crossed in the middle b}^ an externally white-edged dark green line ; the whole surface densely grey-speckled ; abdomen whity brown ; under surface of a more yellow tint than in the male ; the discal stripe carried across the secondaries ; all the wings with a black disco-cellular dot. Expanse of wings, 30 mm. " Las Zorras, in November and December." — T. E. CABEEIDiE. Syllexis, Guenee. 46. Syllexis Incida, n. s. Shining sulphur-yellow or snow-white ; in the yellow form the secondaries are paler than the primaries, and the abdomen is pure white ; primaries in both forms with a black dot at the end of the cell, and an oblique discal series of grey spots ; primaries below paler than above, with creamy white costal border, but no markings ; secondaries also with creamy costal border ; these borders are also to be seen on the white form ; body below creamy white. Expanse of wings, 39 mm. " Pines Valley, near Valparaiso, in December.'" — T. E. The primaries above have the same glistening character as some of the white Liparirhe. collected in Chili. 371 MACARIID^. ' PSEUDALEUCIS, n. g. Form of wings exactly as in Mijchonia, of Herrich- Schaffer (x\uss. Schmett., fig. 448) ; coloration more like that of Aleucis, and the antennae of the male distinctly pectinated. 47. Psetidaleucis niisera, n. s. (? , ? . Primaries above shining cupreons-brown, crossed at basal third by an angular blackish line, and in the middle by two undulated subparallel lines elbowed towards the costa, the inner one interrupted by a black disco -cellular spot ; external border dusky, with one or two minute whitish dots on its inner edge ; a marginal series of black dots ; secondaries sericeous greyish white, with bronze or pale cupreous reflections, external area brownish ; a slightly sinuated grey line across the middle of the wing ; body brown ; under surface shining pale greyish or whitish brown, with slight cupreous reflections ; indistinctly grey-speckled ; a grey discal line angulated on the secondaries, on which wings there is a more or less distinct disco-cellular spot; the female (and perhaps fresh examples of the male) has a small blackish disco- cellular dot on the primaries ; these wings also show a submarginal series of ill-defined whitish spots. Expanse of wings, (? 34 mm. ; ? 31 mm. " Las Zorras, in February." — T. E. 48. Psendaleucis irrorata, n. s. (? . Primaries sericeous cream-colour, irrorated with grey-brown, the base and external border mottled with the same colour ; a ^-shaped blackish line across the basal third, and an externally black -edged, undulated and elbowed, band of greyish brown, flecked with cream- colour, just beyond the middle : a black disco-cellular dot on the band ; secondaries whitish grey across the disc, which is traversed by an undulated grey line ; fringes, of all the wings traversed by two dark grey stripes ; body greyish brown ; primaries below shining sooty-grey, the costal and external borders speckled with blackish and white atoms ; border of apical sinus white ; secondaries white, rather densely irrorated with black ; TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1882. PART III. (SEPT.) 3 C 372 Mr. A.. G. Butler on Heteroceroiis Lepidoptera all the wings with black disco-cellular spots, and an undulated arched discal black line ; fringe as above ; body below sooty. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. . "Las Zorras, in March."— T. E. Pharmacis, Hiihner. The type of this genus is P. cestimaria, of Europe ; the wings of this species have an undulated outer margin, angulated at the extremity of the third median branch in both primaries and secondaries. 49. Pharmacis tmiotata, n. s. (J . Above pale pinky brown, wings striated with grey, and with golden bronze reflections ; primaries crossed by two pale-bordered dark brown lines, converging in the centre, the inner one abruptly angulated at the costal border and incurved towards the inner margin, the outer one strongly inarched in the middle ; a black disco- cellular dot ; external area alinost uniformly golden bronze, with three large oval white spots on the median and interno-median interspaces, the last bifid, and three white dots between them and the costa ; a marginal series of black dots.; secondaries with the external area rather darker than the rest of the wing ; bounded internally by a double brown stripe, the inner line of which is dark ; a small black disco-cellular dot ; under surface greyish white ; wings irrorated with darker scales, sericeous ; a grey discal line; spotted .with black upon the veins ; black disco-cellular dots ; primaries tinted with brown. . Expanse of wings, 30 mm. ? . x\.ltogether redder than the male, the lines across the wings more distinctly double, those on the primaries a little less curved ; the Avhite discal spots rather smaller, for the most part with black centres in some examples, though wholly white in others ; a continuous slender black marginal line ; under surface cupreous- brown, with the inferior halves of the external borders whity-brown ; the whole surface rather densely irrorated with black ; markings as in the male. Expanse of wings, .34 mm. Yar. subocellata. -shaped black markings" terminating near external angle in a ^-shaped spot filled in with blackish ; an interrupted cruciform brownish costal patch beyond this series of markings ; the whole surface of the wings between the other markings crossed by indistinct lunu- late white-edged grey lines ; a black lunulated marginal line ; fringe whitish, traversed by two grey lines, the inner one dark ; secondaries pale sericeous-grey, with a dark marginal line ; thorax whitish ; antennae and abdo- men reddish brown ; primaries below with the costal half washed with laky brown ; a darker lake-brown costal spot beyond the middle, bounded on each side by cream-colour ; this spot, in certain lights, is seen to be the commencement of an arched greyish band, bounded externally by a band rather paler than the ground colour ; internal half of wing greyish white ; fringe nearly as above ; secondaries sordid-white, slightly tinted with reddish towards outer margin ; pectus white-; legs lake- brown above, the tarsi banded with whitish ; venter whitish. Expanse of wings, 26 mm. " Las Zorras."— r. E. A pretty little species, with nearly the pattern of 0. dilittata. 80. Oporabia hastigera, n. s. Primaries above pale brownish grey, crossed from the base to beyond the middle by irregular angulated blackish lines spotted with black on the veins, the fourth and fifth and the two last,, which are in pairs, represent the limits of the central belt, are spotted with cupreous in the male and blood-red in the female, within the cell and between the radial veins ; disc crossed by two series of hastate black spots, indistinctly united by lunulated grey, lines, which are also reddish upon the radial' interspaces ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe white, spotted with dark grey; secondaries white, with cream-coloured fringe; thorax brown, black-speckled ; abdomen sericeous whity brown ; primaries below pale grey ; apex and costal margin brownish ; secondaries white ; body below whitish ; legs blackish, barred with white above, white below. Expanse of wings, 29 — 30 mm. "Las Zorras, in January." — T. E. collected in Chili. 395 Larentia, Duponchel. 81. Larentia chillanensis, n. s. Size, coloration, and general appearance of L. Kol- lariaria of Europe, but the primaries with slight bronze reflections, the costal border conspicuously spotted throughout with black, and the bands spotted upon the veins with black ; wings below with a bronze-brown re- flection; the bands on primaries very indistinct. Expanse of wings, 41 mm. " Baths of Chilian, in Eebruary."— T. E. Probably allied to the so-called " Eubolia " momaria of Snellen. Hammaptera, Herrich-Schdffer. The species of this genus, although referred by M. Guenee to Cidaria, and by Walker both to Cidaria and Pterocypha, are in reality intermediate in structure be- tween Larentia and LohopJiora, the females being ex- tremely like Larentia frustata both in pattern, coloration, and structure, and the males like broad-winged Loho- phorcB, the lobe being represented by a sort of inverted and folded pouch upon the surface of the abdominal area of the secondaries. 82. Hammaptera chiloena, n. s. ? . Upper surface extremely like H. frondosata, but the primaries of a distinctly yellower colour, the secondaries of a bronze-brown colour, with the usual pairs of pale-edged black marginal dots ; an externally white-edged blackish spot near the anal angle ; wings below j)ale brassy golden brown ; primaries grey in certain lights, with paler veins ; an abbreviated trans- verse pale band upon the disc beyond the cell, and through the centre of it an ill-defined slender dusky line ; a sub- marginal series of whitish dots ; a blackish disco-cellular litura; fringe white, spotted with brown, with golden reflections ; central half of costal border cream-coloured ; secondaries with a black spot on the upper disco-cellular ; numerous angular indistinct brownish lines across the external two-thirds ; a squamose greyish submarginal streak; fringe white, touched here and there with grey, trans, ent. soc. 1882. — part hi. (sept.) 3 f 896 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera and with the usual golden reflections ; body below cream- coloured. Expanse of wings, 37 mm. . '' Chiloe, from Keed's collection."— T. E. The pattern above is so like that of the species figured by Herrich-Schaffer that it would be worse than useless to describe it in detail. Ehopalodes, Guenee. The species which I refer to this genus has the same clubbed antennae in the female, similarly small secondaries, upon which (as in the type of the genus) there are two indistinct submarginal stripes, but the subcostal (not the costal vein) has a free furca, and the inner margin of the primaries has two projecting scale patches similar to those of some of the Notodontidcs : were it not that I rather doubt the absolute accuracy of some of the characters given by Guenee, it would be necessary to erect a new genus for the Chilian species. There is no question of the affinity of Rhopalodes and Lohophora ; it is out of place in Guenee's classification, as also is Sauris. 83. Rhopalodes virescens. (PI. XVI., fig. 10).