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Show 506 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 17, Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 1 specimen, Smith). Type, 2 • Having only a § I a m unable to be quite certain that this species is rightly referred to Coptoloma, Ld. P.EDISCA, Tr. PCEDISCA LONGIPALPANA, Mschl. Grapholitha (Pcedisca, Ld.) longipalpana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. xv. pp. 333, 354 (1890). West Indies-Portorico (Mschl.). CROCIDOSEMA, Z. CROCIDOSEMA PLEBEIANA, Z. Crocidosema plebeiana, Z. Is. 1847, p. 721 ; Stgr. & W k . Cat. Lp. Eur. (ii.) no. 1269, p. 263 (1871). Europe, Australia, South America (Wlsm.). West Indies-St. Vincent (Kingstown, 1 specimen; windward side, 3 specimens, Smith). This genus is apparently widely distributed in South America, as I have specimens from Brazil, Peru, and the Argentine Republic. STREPSICRATES, Meyr. Strepsicrates, Meyr. Tr. N.-Z. Inst. xx. p. 73 (1887). = § Strepsiceros, Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N . S. W . vi. pp. 678-9 (1882). STREPSICRATES SMITHIANA, sp. n. Antenna? cinereous. Palpi cinereous, mottled with brownish at the ends of the joints externally, hoary on their inner sides. Head brownish cinereous, the lower half of the face hoary. Thorax cinereous. Fore wings dark brownish, pale cinereous along the dorsal margin beneath the fold ; in the 3 the costal fold is dark brown with a pale costal patch at its outer end, there is also a tuft of raised scales below the middle of the fold, and tufts of similar darker scales near the base above and below the fold ; in the $ the tufts of raised scales are absent, and there appears to be some slight variation in the mottling of the wing-surface, the dark brown ground-colour becoming especially concentrated along the middle and above the outer end of the fold ; the apical portion of the costa is much mottled with pale cinereous, which is diffused across the wing obliquely backwards towards the outer end of the fold; some pale cinereous scales about the anal angle; cilia brownish, tending to pale cinereous at the anal angle. Hind wings semitransparent, blue-grey, obscured with brown |
