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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 99 Hab. West Indies ("America? meridionalis Insulis")1,2- T R I N I D A D (Schaus). C A Y E N N E (Mus. Wlsm.). BRAZIL6-Cameta4. The specimens which Zeller described in the ' Isis' as Stenoma grlseanum, F. (?), and again in the ' Linnaea Entomologica' as Antceotricha walchiana, Cram., are before me. They are certainly not walchiana, Cram., which was redescribed by Walker as Crypto-lechia lativittella. In the 'Horae' Zeller revived Fahricius's name for still another species from Chiriqui with greenish markings towards the apex. If he were justified in doing this, then the species known as walchiana (Zeller, nee Cramer) would be nameless. Fabricius's description is hardly precise enough to enable one to identify a species of this group with certainty, but there appears to be no evidence to prove that Zeller was wrong in his first conception of griseana, F. Moreover I now record Zeller's original griseana from Trinidad, which agrees well with Fabricius's locality " Americae meridionalis Insulis ;"and as Zeller, in 1839, limited the name to this form, I think the concluding sentence of paragraph 15 of the Rules compiled by the German Zoological Society may be held to apply with the addition of the words in brackets: "In doubtful cases the decision of the author who makes the [first] separation [or restriction] shall be followed." [I add the synonymy of the species not occurring in the West Indies, referred to above, and have proposed a new name for Zeller's latest conception of griseana, F. ANTCEOTRICIIA WALCHIANA, Oram. & Stoll. (nee WALCHIANA, Z.); n. syn. = LATIVITTELLA, Wkr. Phalcena (Tortrix) walchiana, Cram. & Stoll, Pap. Exot. IV. 191, 252 (Essai Svst, Lp.), 27, Pl. 384. R (1782) \ Tortrix? walchiana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 325 (1863) -. Cryptoleckia lativittella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.XXIX. 720-1 (1864)3. Hab. VENEZUELA3; SURINAM1,2; BRAZIL 3 (Espiritu Santo, Schmidt; Cor-corado, Schaus; and Sta. Catherina, Mus. Wlsm!). ANTCEOTRICHA ZELLERI, Wlsm. & Drnt. = * GRISEANA, Z.2 Antceotricha griseana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XIII. 315-6, Pl. IV. 95 1877) \ Antceotricha zelleri, Wlsm. & Drnt. Merton Rules 12 (1896)2. Hab. PANAMA-Chiriqui1.] 109. ANTCEOTRICHA ? SINUATA, F. = § DENTELLA, F.2 Alucita dentella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 343. N o . 49 (1794) \ Ypsolophus slnuatus, F. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 509. No. 20 (1798)2. Phalcena (Alucita) dentella, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 383 (1806)3. " dentella. 49. A. alis obscure cinereis : vitta media dentata fusca. " Corpus parvum, cinereum. Alae obscure cinereae vitta lata, interne dentata in medio alae. Pedes albi. " Habitat in Americae Insulis, D o m . v. Rohr."x = West Indies1"3. |