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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 83 mixed with some chestnut; the pale fascia is connected at each extremity with an internally dark margined pale line which passes around the base of the cilia, interrupted only at the extreme apex and forming a triangular pattern ; a reduplicated slender fuscous and chestnut line runs through the hoary cilia along the termen. Exp. cd. 9 mm. Hind wings and cilia leaden grey. Abdomen greyish. Legs hoary, speckled with greyish fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 7 V.-ll V. (Gudmann, Hedemann); GRENADA (Balthazar, windward side, 5-27 IV.-H.H. Smith). Eight specimens. Bred by Mr. Gudmann from a plant which was not identified. 66. ACOMPSIA PSORICOPTERELLA, Wlsm. Brachycrossata psoricopterella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523-4,546 (1892) \ Hah. West Indies-ST. VINCENT \ 19. HELCYSTOGRAMMA, Z. =BRACSYCROSSATA (Hein.), Sect. B, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 98-9. 67. HELCYSTOGRAMMA OBSERATELLA, Z. Gelechia (Helcystogramma) obseratella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 371-3, PL V. 127 (I877)1. Helcystogramma obseratella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-Cuba1-2. 20. TRICHOTAPHE, Clem. 68. TRICHOTAPHE TRIQONELLA, Wlsm. Trichotaphe trlgonella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 523, 546 (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-S. CROIX, 15 V. (Gudmann); ST. VINCENT1. Bred by Mr. Gudmann, but the food-plant not determined. 69. TRICHOTAPHE TEGULELLA, sp. n. Antennce whitish ochreous, annulated with umber-brown. Palpi much flattened laterally, smooth, second joint with closely appressed clothing; umber-brown, on their inner side brownish ochreous. Head and thorax pale umber-brown; tegulae conspicuously pale ochreous. Fore wings dark purplish fuscous, with an elongate blackish spot on the outer third of the fold, separating the dark upper portion of the wing from the narrow dorsal portion, which, below and beyond the fold, is throughout pale ochreous; a small white spot lies at the end of the cell and a larger white costal spot before the apex, this is connected with the tornus by a narrow broken line of ochreous scales; along the termen is a narrow blackish band preceded by a curved line of 6* |