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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 67 29. ARISTOTELIA TROSSULELLA, sp. n. Antennce brownish fuscous, annulated with white beyond their basal fourth. Palpi long, slender, smooth, apical joint somewhat longer than the second; subochreous, the second joint transversely banded with three brownish bars, the apical joint with slender brownish longitudinal lines. Head and thorax olive-brown. Fore wings bright _ olive-brown; from the extreme base an oblique leaden-grey line extends downwards to the dorsum at one-fifth ; beyond it an oblique black line leaving the costa at one-fifth reaches nearly to r,he dorsum, accompanied throughout on its outer edge by a pinkish-ochreous line followed by steel-grey scales ; a patch of steel-grey scales a little before the middle of the costa scarcely reaches beyond the upper margin of the cell, and is followed beyond the middle by a small pinkish-ochreous costal dot connected by some steel-grey scales with an inwardly oblique pinkish-ochreous line reverting towards the middle of the dorsum, black-margined on its inner edge and with steel-grey scales externally; some spots of steel-grey scales lie a little above the tornus, others being scattered around the termen and the inner extremities of a series of pinkish ochreous spots which, to the number of about seven, follow the margin of the wing at the base of the costal and terminal cilia aud are separated by some dark fuscous scales ; cilia subochreous along their base, outwardly with two slender grey lines running through them except at the tornus where they are uniformly greyish. Exp. al. 10 m m . Hind wings grey; cilia paler. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish ochreous, obliquely banded with greyish fuscous externally. Type, 3 Mus. Gudmann. Hah. West Indies-JAMAICA (Kingston, 19 VII., Cockerell); S A N D O M I N G O (Monte Christi, 19 V., Gudmann). Two specimens. 30. ARISTOTELIA PULICELLA, sp. n. Antennce stoutish, §; greyish, with some darker bands towards the apex. Palpi: second joint longer than the apical; whitish, the second joint with two black spots beneath, apical joint with two black rings, one at the base the other before the apex. Head and thorax whitish grey. Fore wings whitish grey, shaded with greyish fuscous, especially along the costal third; this is interrupted on the costa by a pale median space and some pale speckling before the apex; some minute blackish dots are scattered along the line of the fold, with one on the disc before the middle and a few black scales beneath the apex at the base of the yellowish-grey cilia. Exp. cd. 7 m m . Hind wings brownish grey ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs whitish ochreous, the tibiae broadly banded externally and the tarsi minutely spotted posteriorly with fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 7-8III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens. 5* |