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Show 1891.] MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF T H E W E S T INDIES. 537 Hind wings greyish brown, cilia the same. Abdomen brownish cinereous, pale beneath. Legs brownish, spotted on the spurs and tarsal joints with silvery white. Exp. al. 10 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 2 specimens, Smith). Type, 3 2 • LAVERNINM. ANYBIA, Stn. ANYBIA CONSPERSA, sp. n. Antenna? with the basal joint somewhat enlarged outwardly ; greyish fuscous, the last eight or nine joints at the apex whitish ochreous. Palpi recurved to above the base of the antennae ; apical and second joints about equal in length ; dark fuscous, externally delicately stippled with cinereous scales. Head greyish fuscous ; face pale cinereous. Thorax greyish fuscous, speckled with pale cinereous, especially at the sides. Fore wings narrow, elongate, tapering, acuminate, with long cilia ; cinereous, thickly clouded and sprinkled with fuscous; a slight chestnut-brown shade near the base, adjacent to but below the fold ; a few chestnut scales also above the fold halfway to the costal margin; dorsal margin thickly clouded with fuscous throughout; a small fuscous dot lies at the end of the cell on the middle of the wing, and indeed over the whole wing-surface the dark scaling predominates; cilia greyish cinereous. Hind wings very narrow, less than half the width of the fore wings ; with very long cilia ; brownish grey; cilia greyish cinereous. Abdomen greyish cinereous ; anal tuft subochreous. Legs; hind tibiae fringed above; pale ochreous on their inner and under sides, greyish fuscous externally ; hind tarsal joints faintly spotted with pale cinereous, a small pale ochreous spot above the first pair of spurs. Exp. al. 11-12 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (Kingstown and windward side, 3 specimens, Smith). Type, 2 • The genus Anybia is represented in Europe by a single species, with which I have very carefully compared the two now described; the neuration is undoubtedly similar and the very slight difference in the more recurved palpi is quite insufficient to separate them, especially as the comparative lengths of the joints with their closely appressed scales precisely agree with the type. It is remarkable that this genus should not have been recorded from other localities, since its presence in the West Indies indicates the probability of a wider distribution. |