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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 493 Zeller's types, and to my friend Mr. Godman for placing this limited, but interesting and valuable collection in my hands. Mr. Druce has also kindly contributed several species from Dominica, and Mr. J. H. Hart has also been good enough to collect for me in Trinidad, and Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell in Jamaica. PTEROPHORIDJE. AGDISTINX:. SCOPTONOMA, Z. SCOPTONOMA TIPULOIDES, Sp. n. Antennae pale cinereous. Palpi whitish ochreous, streaked along the sides with black. Head brownish above, with a dark brown triangle in front margined with whitish-ochreous lines passing from the base of the antennae and meeting above the haustellum. Thorax mottled with reddish brown, dark fuscous, and whitish ochreous. Fore wings brownish, with numerous angulated whitish streaks, intermixed with dark fuscous streaks, lines, and shading ; an oblique whitish line from the dorsal margin near the base terminates on the median vein at almost one third of the wing-length, this is preceded and followed by a few blackish scales, and the space within it has a somewhat longitudinally-striated appearance: from near the middle of the dorsal margin arises a second whitish oblique streak, angulated backwards about the middle of the wing, and thence again outwards along the median vein; throughout its length it is accompanied on its upper side by a narrow black line which is continued beyond it, first towards the anal acgle and thence, after several deflexions, upwards to the apex and costal margin ; this oblique double line forms the lower edge of two, almost connected, angular transparent rosy-white patches, the first extending from the submedian to the median vein, the second lying above the median, decidedly triangular, its base upon the lower edge of the cell, its apex reaching to the upper edge beyond the middle of the wing ; the inner margins of these triangular patches being continuous, give them the appearance of one single oblique patch, but the ground-colour of the wing is carried through them very narrowly along the median vein ; a dark fuscous or blackish shade clearly defines the inner and outer margins of the transparent patch, but the space below it is more tinged with brown than the apical portion of the wing beyond it, except along the costal and part of the apical margin: at two thirds from the base is a short semi-transparent streak dark-margined within, a little beyond which is a pale costal spot dark-margined on both sides: beyond this small costal spot we come to the other end of the black line (already described as arising from the dorsal margin before the middle in connexion with the pale streak below it); tracing it therefore, in the opposite direction, we find it arising at about one-sixth from the apex,running very obliquely |