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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 505 it is very distinct from anything with which I am acquainted. The pattern, although difficult to describe, is fairly well-defined. GRAPHOLITHA ? EXCITANA, Mschl. Grapholitha excitana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. xv. pp. 333-4, 354 (1890). West Indies-Portorico (Mschl.). COPTOLOMA, Ld. COPTOLOMA? FIGURANA, Z. Grapholitha (Coptoloma 1) figurana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiii. pp. 163-5, pi. ii. fig. 55 (1877). Imago, 17 December (Z.). West Indies-St. Thomas (Z.). COPTOLOMA ? ALBICAPITANA, sp. n. Antenna? fuscous. Head and palpi white. Thorax fuscous. Fore wings brownish fuscous, blending to ferruginous brown, about the apex much streaked and dotted with cream-white and steel-blue lines and spots; a steel-blue spot at the base of the costal margin is followed before the middle by an oblique short costal streak of the same colour, and this is also followed, beyond the middle, by a more slender similar streak, bulging outwardly, dilated and deflected towards the anal angle; near the dorsal margin, at one third from the base, is a cream-white spot, from above which a slender cream-white line, shaped like a horseshoe, is bowed outwards, and returns to a smaller cream-white spot above the fold, enclosing the outer end of a short longitudinal steel-blue streak ; above the middle of the dorsal margin is a small steel-blue spot followed by another slightly above and beyond it, which is separated from a third elongate spot above the middle of the wing by a slender cream-white line; the two lower of these spots are enclosed by slender waved cream-white lines, at a little distance from them but following their outline; these lines do not reach the dorsal margin nor do they meet between the spots; on the chestnut-brown apical portion of the wing are two or three cream-white costal spots or streaks, the outer one being the longest, and having some steel-blue scales at its lower end; between these spots and around the apex the extreme margin of the wing is fuscous ; cilia blue-grey. Underside unicolorous greyish fuscous, with three costo-apical white spots or streaks. Hind wings brownish fuscous, darker towards the apex j cilia greyish. Abdomen fuscous ; underside cream-whitish. Legs greyish fuscous ; spurs paler. Exp. al. 10 millim. |