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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF THE WEST INDIES. 521 extreme apex of the apical joint whitish ochreous, a few whitish-ochreous scales interspersed at the sides. Head dark umber-brown, mixed with a few hoary scales. Thorax dark umber, sprinkled with hoary scales and fringed with hoary scales posteriorly. Fore wings dark umber, irrorated with pale ochreous scales and sprinkled with orange-yellow spots, some of which are faintly margined with raised blackish scales; the arrangement of the spots is somewhat as follows:-one at the base below the costal margin; two on the fold, each followed by black scales; one on the middle of the wing and one beyond it towards the end of the cell, brighter and more conspicuous and followed by raised blackish scales; at one fourth from the apex, a large orange-yellow spot on the costal and an opposite one on the dorsal margin, with one small spot at the extreme apex ; cilia dark umber-grey on the dorsal margin. Hind wings brownish grey; cilia greyish. Abdomen dark umber ; anal tuft bright ochreous. Legs very pale greyish ochreous, barred and banded with brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 1 specimen, Smith). Type, 2 • POJ:CILIA, Hein. PffiClLIA EXTRANEA, Sp. n. Antenna? [broken], a black line along each side of the basal joint, which is otherwise white. Palpi with long projecting divided scales beneath the second joint, whitish on the inner side, streaked with brown and chestnut on the outer side; apical joint distinctly barred with black near the base and towards the apex. Head and face white. Thorax cinereous, mottled with brownish fuscous at the sides and posteriorly. Fore wings brownish fuscous at the base for one third their length, cinereous speckled with brownish fuscous beyond, much shaded with brownish fuscous on the apical fourth; a slender white line commencing at the base and following the costal margin is bent downwards and forms a sinuous outer edge to the basal patch, reaching the dorsal margin obliquely before the middle; another slender white line commencing below the middle of the costa is sinuated outwards and downwards to the anterior edge of the dark apical fourth, where it meets a shorter, slender white line, which reverts obliquely to the dorsal margin ; along the extreme apical margin is a narrow whitish line enclosing a short series of black dots ; cilia pale cinerous, with a reduplicated darker line running through them, cilia on the dorsal margin grey. Hind wings grey; cilia grey. Abdomen greyish. |