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Show 1891.] M1CRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 513 Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 10 specimens, Smith). Type, <J $. I have named this species after the late Prof. Felipe Poey, the author of * Centime de Lopidoptores de l'ile de Cuba1 (Paris, 1S.'>3 et seq.), a book which I have in vain endeavoured to find in the market for many years. ACROLOPHUS NIVEIPUNCTATA, sp. n. Antenna pale fawn. Palpi reddish fawn mixed with rust-brown, which is especially noticeable on the exposed side ; apical tuft long, almost entirely rust-brown. Head and thorax reddish fawn mixed with rust-brown. Fore wings pale reddish fawn, suffused with rust-brown over the greater portion of the wing-surface, except along the dorsal margin and about the apical margin and apex, the pale ground-colour appears also at the extreme base ; the rust-brown shading projects into the paler colour, first in an angulated excrescence near the base, which crosses the fold, and secondly in a semicircular projection a little before the middle, which crosses the middle of the fold, from the outer and upper edge of this the rust-brown shading is deflected to the anal angle; a chain of about seven small fan-like, raised snow-white scales, commencing near the base, forms a straight margin to the upper edge of the first angular projection, renching to the highest point of the pale ground-colour above the fold; a second chain of similar snow-white scales commences within the outer and upper portion of the semicircular projection, consisting of about nine raised dots, follows the edge of the dark shading about halfway along its deflection to the anal angle ; the apical portion of the wing is slightly speckled with rust-brown, a few inconspicuous streaklets of the same colour occur near the apical margin and on the pale dorsal space; cilia mixed pale fawn and rust-brown. Underside greyish fuscous, tinged with rust-brown along the costal margin. Eind wings stone-greyish ; cilia scarcely paler. Underside dull greyish fuscous, slightly paler than in the fore wings. Abdomen missing. ' (A female abdomen is stuck ou to this specimen.,) , Legs pale stone-grey, somewhat tinged with rufous beneath ; hind tarsi not tufted above. Exp. al. 31 millim. Hab. West Indies-Cuba. Type, 3 Mus. Stgr. ACROLOPHUS PLUMIFRONTELLUS, Clem. Anaphora plumifronlclla, Clem. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. xi. p. 261 (1859); StnfTin. N . A m . pp. 39,57, 59, 60 (1872). Acrolophus plumifrontellus, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1887, |