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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MIORO-LEPIDOPTERA. Ill metallic. Legs whitish; hind tarsal joints banded above with dark grey. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hah. West Indies-HAYJM (Port-au-Prince, 24 V.-Gudmann); ST. T H O M A S , 12 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. VII. SCYTHR1NM. 44. fficiA, g. n. (onceIos=belonging to the house.) Type, (Ecla maculata, Wlsm. Antennce longer than the fore wings, simple, stout; basal joint without pecten. Labial palpi diverging, smooth; second joint porrect, rather stout; apical joint erect, nearly as long as the second. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Ocelli present. Haustellum absent. Head and thorax clothed with appressed scales. Fore wings elongate, costa rather straight, apex slightly depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen oblique ; tornus not developed. Neuration: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hind wings hardly as broad as the fore wings, costa straight, abdominal angle distinct, dorsum tapering to the pointed apex ; cilia 2. Neuration : 8 veins, 6 and 7 long-stalked, 3 and 4 remote, 5 almost parallel with 4. Abdomen slightly flattened. Legs: hind tibiae and first joint of the tarsi with long loose hairs above. Allied to Endrosls, Hb., and having apparently the same habits, but differing in having vein 6 of the hind wings present, 3 and 4 separate, and the haustellum absent. 138. fficiA MACULATA, Sp. n. Antennce smoky greyish. Palpi pale ochreous. Head pale straw-ochreous. Thorax pale straw-ochreous, shaded with smoky grey. Fore wings pale straw-ochreous, blotched and margined with smoky grey; this colour commencing near the base extends along the fold and along the costa without including the costal cilia and embraces the apex; on the middle of the fold is a stronger blotch of the same colour, slightly diffused down wards to the dorsum ; a similar blotch a little above and beyond it scarcely before the middle; a third at the end of the cell extending almost across the wing; cilia pale straw-ochreous. Exp. al. 10-12 m m . Hind wings shining pale yellowish grey ; the cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs with the tibiae and tarsi somewhat hairy; whitish ochreous. Type, 3 ? Mus. Wlsm. |