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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF TBE WEST INDIES. 525 POLYHYMNO, Chamb. POLYHYMNO ? GODMANI, Sp. n. Antenna? with the basal joint slightly enlarged ; pale grey. Palpi shining pale grey. Head shining pale grey ; face almost white. Thorax shining pale grey. Fore wings shining pale reddish grey, without markings to beyond the middle ; the apical portion of the wing adorned, first by a bright orange-yellow streak slightly above the middle of the wing extending to the costal margin before the apex as far as a small jet-black apical spot, from which two slender dark lines (which appear to be produced by the iridescent effect of the waved lines of scales rather than by any dark scaling) diverge downwards to the anal angle, these are preceded by a bright silvery-white space which runs obliquely backwards (and appears to be also dark-margined), and followed by the shining lilac metallic cilia, which are gathered into two distinct depressed points at the apex, giving the wing a falcate appearance; the cilia of the dorsal margin and anal angle are reddish grey. Hind wings shining pale grey; cilia purplish grey, with a distinct black trausverse line preceded by a pale space at the extreme apex. Abdomen shining leaden grey. Legs very pale ochreous, with a black spot above the spurs; hind tibiae clothed with long hairs above; hind tarsal joints barred with blackish scales above. Exp. al. 11 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 5 specimens, Smith). Type, 3. Additional material should enable this species to be ultimately separated from the genus Polyhymno ; it agrees in structure with my African Polyhymno 1 tenuis and also with Walker's Gelechia animosella from India. YPSOLOPHUS, F. YPSOLOPHUS MANELLUS, Mschl. Ypsolophus manellus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. xv. pp. 344-354(1890). West Indies-Portorico (Mschl.). YPSOLOPHUS RUSTICUS, sp. n. Antennae pale greyish ochreous. Palpi with a strong triangular tuft, from the middle of which arises the sharp, slender, apical joint; cinereous at the sides, with a paler line along the margin of the tuft. Head pale greyish ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous. |