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Show 540 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 17, apex and beneath it pale yellowish sprinkled with fuscous, on the dorsal margin grey. Hind wings grey, with cilia of the same colour. Abdomen grey ; shining creamy white beneath. Legs: anterior and median pair with bronzy-brown tibiae and white tarsal joints ; posterior pair shaded above with bronzy brown, tarsal joints whitish. Exp. al. 12 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 1 specimen, Smith). Type, 3. GRACILARIA APICEPUNCTELLA, sp. n. Antenna? with the basal joint slightly enlarged ; longer than the fore wings; very pale cinereous. Palpi rather long, dependent, slender; second joint cinereous, with a darker spot on its outer side at the apex; apical joint about equal in length to the second, whitish, with a dark spot rather before the middle on its outer side. Head very pale cinereous; face whitish. Thorax dirty whitish. Fore wings greyish fuscous, obliquely barred with interrupted creamy-white bands along the dorsal half of the wing ; a round black apical spot enclosed in a pale ferruginous apical space, which is narrowly black-margined, its anterior margin straight, its posterior margin following the base of the cilia around the apex and apical margin to the anal angle ; the creamy-white bands and markings are distributed as follows :-near the base a small square dorsal spot; beyond it before the middle a larger spot tending obliquely outwards towards a small subcostal spot before the middle, between which and the base is a second smaller subcostal spot; a narrow line from before the middle runs along the dorsal margin, and is dilated beyond the middle into a large trapezoidal dorsal patch, which reaches to the inner margin of the pale ferruginous apical space, and diverted to the costa by a narrow line internally and externally dark-margined, its external margin being the blackish inner margin of the ferruginous space already mentioned ; before this narrow line are three short longitudinal streaks, the middle one almost or quite communicating with a short oblique subcostal streak beyond the middle, near the costal end of which another oblique separate streak arises, which tends backward towards the dorsal margin, terminating above the origin of the narrow dorso-marginal line before the middle of the wing-length ; cilia pale greyish tipped with black, on the dorsal margin pale greyish. Hind wings and cilia greyish. [Abdomen missing.] Exp. al. 8 millim. Hab. West Indies-St. Vincent (windward side, 1 specimen, Smith). Type, 2- |