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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 55 rather in the middle than at either end of the series of families which form this group. The adoption of Mr. Meyrick's system, of course, involved great changes in generic nomenclature, for which he had given no reasons. In some cases where his alterations have been accepted, the reasons for such acceptance are here set forth: in ail cases where I have been unable to accept his generic names I have fully discussed and explained how the names here adopted have been arrived at. For any further explanation on this point, the reader may now refer to the code of rules compiled by Mr. Durrani and myself, which has lately been published by Messrs. Longmans under the title ' Rules for regulating Nomenclature with a view to secure a strict application of the Law of Priority in Entomological Work.' In m y previous paper 132 species were enumerated as occurring in the West Indies : of these 10 were simply mentioned as " sp." ; these are now deducted, as are also Scoptonoma tipuloides, Wlsm. (now regarded as belonging to the Pyralldina); Pterophorus aspllo-dactylus, Wkr. (now regarded as a worn specimen of P. agrapho-dactylus, Wkr.); Ccenogenespusilla (Z.), Wlsm. (wrongly identified, and described in the following pages as Hypoclopus parvus, sp.n.); Psecadla adustella, Z. ( = Tamarrha gelldella,^Wkr.); Psecadla Ingrl-cella, Mschl. ( = Ethmla eonfusella, Wkr.) ; Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Wlsm. (= Cosmopteryx attenuatella, Wkr. : Walker referred this species to Gelechia, which must be m y excuse for the creation of the synonym); Cosmopteryx gemm-iferella (Clem. ?), Mschl. (recorded with doubt by Mdschler, and here omitted as being probably synonymous Math attenuatella, Wkr.). These deductions reduce m y former list to 115 species (132 - 10-7). To this total is now added 34 species already described, and these, together with 153 new species, raise the total of the West-Indian Micro- Lepidoptera to 302 species (115 + 34 + 153). Nineteen genera are characterized as new. The species recorded from each of the islands are as follows:- Cuba, 23; Jamaica, 31: Haiti (or San Domingo), 50 ; Portorico, 37 ; St. Croix, 57; St. Thomas, 114 ; St. Jan, 3 ; St. Martin, 1; Guadeloupe, 1; Dominica, 7 ; Martinique, 1; St. Lucia, 2 ; St. Vincent, 43; Grenada, 60; Trinidad, 8; Curacao, 1.- W E S T INDIES, 302. - Of these species, 27 occur in the United States, 4 in Central America, and 28 in South America ; 5 are found also in Europe, 3 in India and also in other parts of Asia, while one extends to Malaysia; 5 occur in Australia, and 4 in Africa. The larvae of 49 species are known, of which number 34 have been bred in the West Indies. What is now specially wanted is some knowledge of the Micros of the more northern islands stretching towards the coast of Florida, as well as from the peninsula of Florida itself. There is strong reason to believe that very beautiful and distinct forms of these insects are to be found in Cuba, Portorico, and Haiti, and also in Florida-such as have been already received include some |
