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Show 526 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 17, Fore wings pale ochreous, with a small fuscous spot at the extreme base of the costal margin and a black discal dot at half the wing-length, followed by a second at two thirds from the base, somewhat nearer the dorsal margin, beneath it is a group of brownish-fuscous scales ; one or more groups of fuscous scales on the costal margin before the apex, and a diffused shade of the same colour along the apical margin tapering to the anal angle ; cilia pale ochreous. Hind wings pale greyish with a slight iridescence; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen greyish; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs very pale cinereous. Exp. al. 12 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 2 specimens, Smith). United States-Texas (Belfrage). Type, 3. I have two specimens collected by the late G. W . Belfrage in Texas, which have been long in m y collection as belonging to an un-described species, but under the suspicion that they might be Anarsia trimaculella, Chamb., from which they appear to differ in the absence of a third spot on the fold before the middle. YPSOLOPHUS PIPERATUS, sp. n. Antenna? pale cinereous. Palpi fuscous externally, paler on their inner sides, with a narrow whitish line along the outer margin of the tuft. Head pale cinereous. Thorax pale ochreous. Fore wings pale ochreous, dusted with black scales, especially on the outer half; costa black at the base, dotted unequally with black throughout; apical margin dusted with black; a black discal spot at one fourth from the base above the fold; a second smaller one below it; two black dots towards the end of the cell, the first of which is at about the middle of the wing, the second beyond the middle, below the first of these spots is a small black dot; cilia very pale ochreous. Hind wings grey with a faint iridescence ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen grey. Legs pale cinereous. Exp. al. 9 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, one specimen, Smith). Type, 3- YPSOLOPHUS INDIGNUS, sp. n. Antennae pale cinereous, faintly annulated. Palpi rufo-cinereous, with a pale line along the upper margin of the second joint. Head and thorax pale rufo-cinereous. Fore wings pale rufo-cinerous, with a few chestnut mottlings in |