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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 117 fawn-brown hairs; anal claspers somewhat peculiar, long, curved inwards and upwards in the form of two chitinous processes resembling the analogous organs in the Forficulldce. Legs pale fawn-brown. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-JAMAICA (Coll. Ragonot). The dark patch on the underside of the fore wings is probably a sexual character confined to the 3 . 50. HYPONOMEUTA, Ltr. [f YPONOMEUTA, Ltr. (1796); JHYPONOMEUTA, Sdf. (1837).] 151. HYPONOMEUTA MAHALEBELLUS, Gn. Yponomeuta mahalebella, Gn. Ind. Meth. 105-6 (1845) \ Hyponomeuta mahalebellus, Stgr. & W k . Cat. Lp. Eur. 277. No. 1555 (1871) 2. Yponomeuta mahalebella, Gn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5 s.) IX. 282 (1879)3. Hyponomeuta mahalebellus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 532, 547 (1892) 4. Hah. EUROPE1"4, Larva, Cerasus mahaleb*'3. West Indies- CUBA3'4. 152. H Y P O N O M E U T A TRIANGULARIS, Mschl. Hyponomeuta triangularis, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 339-40, 354 (1890)J; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 532, 547 (1892) 2; Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 10 (1896)3. Hab. West Indies-PORTORICO 1,2 ; ST. THOMAS, 17 III.3 II. PLUTELLINM. 51. PLUTELLA, Schrk. 153. PLUTELLA CRUCIFERARUM, Z. Plutella cruciferarum, Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. IV. 281-3 (1843). Plutella xylostella, Stgr. & W k . Cat. Lp. Eur. 281. No. 1626 (1871). Plutella cruciferarum, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 425. No. 1626 (1871), &c. &c. Plutella xylostella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat, Ges. XV. 341, 354 (1890) \ Plutella cruciferarum, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 518-9, 545 (1892) 2. Hab. All regions. West Indies-PORTORICO1,2. It is certainly remarkable that I should not have received specimens of this cosmopolitan species from some of my correspondents ! III. GLYPHIPTERYGTNM. 52. DlTRIGONOPHORA. (lls=doubly; rpiywvov=a. triangle ; <j>opetv = to carry.) Type Dltrlgonophora marmorelpennls, Wlsm. Antennce (broken). Labial pcdpi somewhat longer than the head, slender at the |