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Show 516 LORD W A L S I N G H A M O N T H E [NOV. 17, marrow-spoon, elongate, scarcely spatulate, with almost parallel margins, rounded at the ends; uncus double. Legs pale fawn ; hind tarsi faintly spotted. Exp. al. 30| millim. Hab. West Indies-Cuba. Type, 3 Mus. Stgr. I have adopted the specific name from a label placed by Zeller on Dr. Staudinger's specimen. FELDERIA, Wlsm. FELDERIA DIMIDIELLA, sp. n. (Plate XLI. fig. 15.) Antennae pale fawn-ochreous. Palpi umber-brown at the base, pale fawn-ochreous beyond. Head and thorax pale fawn-brown. Fore wings pale fawn, sprinkled, speckled, and shaded with brownish scales ; a series of dark umber-brown spots-the first small, a little below the costal margin near the base ; the second larger, on the fold before the middle ; the third also large, on the fold beyond * the middle; the fourth at the end of the discal cell, a slight indication of a fifth spot lying parallel with the middle of the apical margin ; cilia very pale fawu. Hind wings dingy whitish fawn ; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen dingy whitish fawn. Legs whitish fawn ; tarsi unspotted. Exp. al. 20 millim. Hab. West Indies-Cuba. Type, 3 Mus. Stgr. The pectinations of the antennae are much shorter than in Felderia doeri, Wlsm., the type of the genus. This specimen is labelled in Zeller's handwriting " Acrolophus vitellus nicht beschr." It cannot be vitellus, Poey, as the antennae of that species are described as simple. BAZIRA, Wkr. Bazira, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M . xxx. p. 1009 (1864). = §Eddara, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins.B. M. xxviii. pp. 517-8 (1863). BAZIRA XYLINELLA, Wkr. Eddara xylinella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxviii. p. 518(1863). Bazira xylinella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxx. p. 1009 (1864). West Indies-Jamaica ( Wkr.). The type of this species is erroneously recorded by Walker as a male ; it is a female. In the absence of the male, it is impossible to say whether this genus can be regarded as distinct. The palpi are short and porrect; the fore wings have 12 veins, all separate, and the hind wings 8 veins, all separate. I am inclined to think it is allied to Pseudanaphora arcanella, Clem. |