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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 81 wings almost concolorous with the fore wings, but with a slight brownish-grey tinge ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen shining, brownish grey. Legs pale cinereous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, windward side, 5-15 IV.-H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 62. ANACAMPSIS LAPIDELLA, sp. n. Antennce stone-grey. Palpi whitish; second joint somewhat triangular, with a brownish-fuscous shade, not reaching to its outer margin, externally; apical joint long, slender, erect. Head and thorax brownish fuscous. Fore wings stone-grey, sprinkled with brownish-fuscous scales, with a series of three brownish-fuscous discal spots ; the first diffused downwards across the fold at about one-fifth, the second a little beyond a smaller plical spot beneath it, the third at the end of the cell, of irregular shape and somewhat diffused ; above and a little beyond this is a small costal spot preceding an inverted pale cinereous costal streak, which forms the upper extremity of an ill-defined, narrow, pale cinereous fascia crossing the wing nearly parallel with the termen; cilia ochreous, speckled along their base with brownish fuscous and with a line of the same colour running through them around the apex and also along the termen. Exp. al. 13 m m . Hind wings brownish cinereous ; cilia somewhat paler, with a reduplicated shade-line running through them. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Hind legs whitish cinereous, shaded externally with brownish fuscous; hind tibiae densely hairy above. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, windward side, 15 IV.-H. H. Smith). Unique. 63. ANACAMPSIS INSULARIS, sp. n. Antennce greyish fuscous. Palpi: the second joint with a closely-appressed triangular tuft above ; greyish fuscous; apical joint twice as long as the second, with two pale annulations. Head and thorax greyish fuscous. Fore wings greyish fuscous, with dirty whitish costal blotches reaching nearly half across the wing'-one elongate, oblique, before the middle ; another smaller, not oblique, on the middle; a third before the apex nearly meeting at its lower extremity a smaller one arising from a little beyond the tornus ; some dark fuscous spots along the fold are connected by a dark line, and an irregular dark line along the outer part of the cell connects a small median spot with one a little below the apex ; cilia bone-whitish, slightly spotted along their base. Exp. al. 8 m m . Hind wings greyish fuscous. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, spotted with bone-white. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 24 III. (Hedemann) ; ST. J A N , 27 III. (Gudmann). Two specimens. P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1897, N o . VI. 6 |