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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 119 acquainted with that work very soon after its completion. If " Glyphipteryx, nob." of Curtis were an independent creation, the name could not stand, as it was already preoccupied by Hiibner; and if he were restricting Hiibner's genus Glyphipteryx, his action was inadmissible, for Glyphipteryx linneella, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 4101 (Hb. Tin. 436, Tort. 84),'is bergstrcesserella, F. (Stgr. Cat, 2306), a totally different insect from linneella, L. and Crt. * Glyphipteryx, Crt. (necPLb.), must sink as a synonym of Chrysoclista, Stn. 156. GLYPHIPTERYX CAUDATELLA, sp. n. Antennce brownish grey. Pcdpi slender; whitish. Head and thorax shining olive-brown. Fore wings shining olive-brown, with five short white costal streaklets ; the first two beyond the middle oblique, tending to converge, emitting a steel-blue line running to the tornus ; the third small and straight; the fourth and fifth, before the apex, tending to converge at their extremities, the outer one of the two nearly meeting a short subapical white streak below the dark ocellated apex, which contains a white spot within the circular line running through the cilia and emitting a long uncate dark apical streaklet; on the middle of the dorsum is a conspicuous white outwardly oblique cuneiform dash, its extremity slightly curved over, and before the tornus is a much shorter one, straighter and less conspicuous ; cilia pale greyish. Exp. al. 8 m m . Hind wings and cilia greyish brown. Abdomen shining olive-brown. Legs olive-brownish, tarsi spotted and tipped with whitish. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft.; and Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 13-20IV.-H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 157. G L Y P H I P T E R Y X PARADISEA, sp. n. Antennce brownish fuscous. Palpi smooth, slender, the second joint about as long as the apical ; dirty whitish. Head and thorax brownish fuscous. Fore wings brownish fuscous at the base, richly ornamented beyond; with a broad triangular dorsal patch at one-third, its apex reaching to the upper edge of the cell; a short scarcely oblique steel-blue costal streak a little beyond it terminates on the cell in a space shaded with orange ochreous, which colour also intervenes between it and a second slightly inverted steel-blue costal streak slightly beyond the middle-the upper extremities of these streaks form white spots on the costa ; from the middle of the dorsum arises a longer steel-blue streak with lilac reflections, its extremity equidistant between the ends of the costal streaks above it; thence the ground-colour becomes dark greyish fuscous, but is almost entirely superseded by a large brightly decorated patch of black occupying the whole tornal angle-its upper portion consisting of a steel-lilac spot, from which radiating lines of pale ochreous dots traverse the black space, its lower portion with three upright equidistant steel-lilac spots, the first larger than the other two ; crossing the apical portion is a strong steel-blue streak |
