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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 499 difference in the neuration of the male and female has hitherto regarded as characteristic of Amorbia, Clem., which, however, has no costal fold in the male. PLATYNOTA, Clem. PLATYNOTA ROSTRANA, Wkr. Teras rostrana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxviii. p. 290 (1863). = Teras restitutana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxviii. p. 292 (1863). = Teras connexana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxviii. p. 293 (1863). Platynota rostrana, Wlsm. 111. Typ. Lp. Het. B. M . iv. 5-6, pi. lxii. fig. 1 (1879) ; Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. x. no. 114, p. 22 (1882). Larva. Leaves of orange. (U. S., Fern.) United States-Florida (Fern.). S. America-Venezuela (Wkr.), Brazil (Ega, Wkr.). West Indies-San Domingo (Wkr.), St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 2 specimens, Smith). These two specimens are in poor condition and the dark markings are not distinctly outlined by lines of semi-raised scales as in the type. They are also somewhat smaller; but on the strength of such material I cannot regard them as anything more than a local form. PLATYNOTA REPANDANA, Wkr. Teras repandana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B, M. xxviii. p. 292 (1863). West Indies-San Domingo (Wkr.) The type of this species is erroneously recorded by Walker as a female, it is a male. CERATORRHINETA. (CERORRHINETA, Z.) Type, cS 2 Cerorrhineta calidana, Z. (Cuba). (Plate XLI. fig. 2, a-e.) Antenna?, 3, scaled and flattened beyond the basal joint, giving a bulged appearance, beyond which they are merely pubescent; § simple. Palpi, S, thickly clothed ; long, curved downwards, apical joint short: $ very long (longer than in the S ), much curved downwards, closely clothed throughout. Head thickly clothed, with a slight projecting tuft. Thorax smooth. Fore wings, cS, elongate, oblong ; with a straight costal fold extending nearly to the apex: $ with the costal margin arched, especially towards the base: apical margin not oblique ; with raised scales, as in Platynota, but these are not abundant. Neuration ( 6 & $ ): 12 veins, 7 and 8 from a common stem, the fork enclosing the apex. |