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Show 536 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 17, GoSMOPTER YGINM. COSMOPTERYX, Hb. COSMOPTERYX LESPEDEZA, Wlsm. Cosmopteryx lespedeza?, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 198 (1882). Larva on Lespedeza (in U.S., Wlsm.). United States-Texas, N. Carolina. West Indies-St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 4 specimens, Smith). COSMOPTERYX (? GEMMIFERELLA, Clem.), Mschl. Cosmopteryx gemmiferella, Clem. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. xii. p. 10 (1860) ; Stn. Tin. N. A m . pp. 39, 100-1 (1872). Cosmopteryx (?gemmiferella, Clem.), Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. xv. pp. 345, 354 (1890). Larva on Zizania miliacea, April and June (in U.S., F. $• B.). United States-Texas, Pennsylvania. West Indies-Portorico (Mschl.). COSMOPTERYX SANCTI-VINCENTII, sp. n. Antenna? brown, with a slender white line along each side reaching to a white ring around the eighth joint from the apex ; apical joint white. Palpi brownish, with slender whitish lines throughout their length above and beneath. Head brown. Thorax brown, with a slender longitudinal central white streak. Fore wings brown to a little beyond the middle, apex brown, separated from the basal half by a broad pale yellow band ; on the basal half are four distinct slender white longitudinal lines-the first along the costal margin from the base to the yellow band, sometimes slightly interrupted about its middle; a second from near the base above the fold parallel with the first and about two thirds its length ; a third below the outer half of the fold, short, commencing at one half the length of the brown basal half and not reaching the yellow band ; a fourth along the dorsal margin reaching to a point opposite the commencement of the third ; the brown basal half is bordered obliquely by two spots of raised pale golden scales, sometimes connected, the upper spot being slightly nearer to the base than the lower one, at the outer edge of the upper spot is a minute dot of jet-black scales ; at the outer edge of the broad yellow band are two opposite pale golden spots, the one costal, the other, which is the larger, dorsal ; between these spots the yellow colour of the band is continued for a small space and emits into the brown apical part of the wing a slender straight golden-yellowish line to the extreme apex ; a few whitish scales on the costa form an outer margin to the second pale golden-yellow costal spot; cilia greyish brown. |