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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 97 102. ICONISMA MACROCERA, sp. n. Antennce with the basal joint dirty whitish, brownish cinereous beyond. Palpi dull whitish, shaded with fuscous at the sides except at the tips of the second and apical joints. Head dull whitish. Thorax hoary whitish. Fore wings hoary whitish, with three elongate fuscous streaks, the first from the base running below the costa to one-third, the margin above it being also slightly shaded with fuscous ; the second also from the base following the fold to the dorsum; the third along the outer portion of the cell, commencing slightly before the middle of the wing and ending with the cell; some scattered fuscous sprinkling around the margins extends into the cilia, which have a slight ochreous tinge except along the costa, where they are whitish. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind wings pale greyish; cilia tinged with ochreous. Abdomen greyish ochreous. Legs pale cinereous. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 15 III.-8 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens. V. XYLORYCTIDiE. 31. GLYPHIDOCERA, Wlsm. 103. GLYPHIDOCERA AUDAX, Wlsm. Glyphidocera audax, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891,531-2, 547, Pl. XLI. 8 a-c (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-ST. VINCENT l. 104. GLYPHIDOCERA DOMINICELLA, sp. n. Antennce pale fawn-brown. Palpi, head, and thorax fawn-grey. Fore wings fawm-grey, sparsely sprinkled with olive-brown ; with two olive-brown spots on the disc, one at its outer extremity, the other halfway between this and the base ; cilia fawn-grey with a slight ochreous tinge. Exp. al. 15 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish olivaceous. Abdomen brownish olivaceous. Legs scarcely paler than the hind wings. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-DOMINICA (Point Michell, 29 V.). Two specimens. This species differs from audax, Wlsm., in having the base of the costa of the fore wings less abruptly arched, and in the hind wings being more opaque and having paler cilia. 105. GLYPHIDOCERA RECTICOSTELLA, sp. n. Antennce strongly notched in the 3 beyond the basal joint, serrate towards the apex; ochreous beneath, shaded wdth greyish fuscous above. Palpi strongly recurved, laterally divergent ; greyish fuscous. Head and face greyish fuscous. Thorax greyish ' PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1897, No. VII. 7 |