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Show 1891.] M I C R O - L E P I D O P T E R A O F T H E W E S T INDIES. 539 slender shining leaden-grey semicircular line bulging outwards from the costal and recurved to the dorsal margin about the anal angle ; at the apex is a conspicuous black spot, from which a curved black line runs through the cilia towards the anal angle, but is ended abruptly before reaching it ; between this and the semicircular shining line already mentioned is an oblique straight black line following the margin of the wing at the base of the cilia and reaching upwards nearly to the costo-apical spot; cilia tipped with black at the extreme apex, those on the hind margin pale reddish grey. Underside brownish fuscous. Hind ivings grey ; cilia pale reddish grey. Abdomen reddish grey. Legs: hind tibiae fringed above with separate pale yellowish hairs, giving a pectinate appearance ; a black spot lies at the base of the spurs and three black bands on the tarsal joints, which are otherwise white. Exp. al. 9 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (3 specimens, Smith). Type, 3 . # This species is closely allied to Gracilaria leuconota, Z., from Ubaque, which also probably belongs to this genus ; the species now described differs chiefly in the larger dark apical spot, which is placed nearer to the costal margin, and in the presence of the oblique black streak below it. I a m justified in separating it from the genus Gracilaria on account of its much longer antennae and its slender long recurved palpi; the maxillary palpi, although undoubtedly present in the typical Zarathra, are not quite so strongly developed as in this species, but the shape of the wings is the same, and, so far as I can judge without denuding the specimen, the general pattern of neuration is similar. This genus is not confined to South America, but extends also to Africa and the Indian region. GRACIIJARIANM. GRACILARIA, HW. GRACILARIA ^ENEOCAPITELLA, sp. n. Antenna? greyish, faintly spotted with paler colour. Palpi whitish, outer half of second joint fuscous, except at the extreme apex. Head shining iridescent bronze ; face shining metallic whitish. Thorax shining bronzy. Fore wings tawny purplish, mixed with pale lemon-yellow beyond the basal fourth ; a conspicuous broad pale lemon-yellow band extends from the basal third along the costal portion of the wing to the apex, its margin not clearly defined, the tawny purple blending into it from below ; this band is widest and most conspicuous about its commencement, where it contains one or two minute fuscous costal dots; a series of dark purple striae is also visible along the dorsal margin, and some small groups of fuscous scales are on the apical portion of the wing, reaching to the extreme apex; cilia at, |