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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 69 11. EUCATOPTUS, g. n. (euK,a'ro7rros=easily seen.) Type, Eucatoptus penlcillata, Wlsm. Antennce (f), 3 very shortly ciliate ; without pecten. Maxillary palpi very short. Labial palpi recurved ; apical joint pointed, almost as long as the second ; second joint somewhat flattened laterally, not roughly clothed beneath. Haustellum well developed. Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings with the costa evenly arched ; apex depressed, bluntly pointed; termen oblique, tornus evenly rounded. Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 6 separate (6 sometimes out of 7, e. g chalybelchroa). Hind wings hardly 1, elongate, trapezoidal; apex produced, pointed ; termen emarginate beneath apex ; tornus angular, dorsum straight; cilia 1| ; 3 with long pencil of expansible hairs from the base of the costa (extending almost the length of the cell of the fore wings). Neuration : 8 veins ; 3, 4, and 5 remote, almost parallel, 6 and 7 remote. Abdomen slender. Legs : hind tibiae thinly haired above. Closely allied to Aristotelia, Hb., from which it is distinguished by the costal hair-pencil of the o* • § A. Fore wings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 out of 7. Hind wings, 3 and 4 separate. 33. EUCATOPTUS CHALYBEICHROA, sp. n. Antennce: basal joint somewhat enlarged and flattened in the 3 ; whitish cinereous, very faintly annulated with two darker bands towards the apex. Palpi: second joint as long as the apical joint, somewhat roughly clothed; dirty whitish, with two fuscous spots on the second joint externally and two fuscous annulations on the apical joint. Head and thorax dirty whitish, speckled with cinereous. Fore wings brownish cinereous, with a steely gloss throughout and some ferruginous scaling, especially on the outer half; at the extreme base of the costa is a small dark fuscous spot, narrowly connected with an oblique narrow broken fascia of the same colour, extending outwards to the dorsum, which it reaches at about one-fourth the wing-length ; beyond this is a minute black spot on the outer half of the fold, the remainder of the wing to the apex being speckled with black scales, some preceded by whitish; on the costa before the apex is an elongate shining whitish spot, followed by black speckling around the base of the terminal cilia which partake of the wing-colour, but tending to pale grey at the tornus, with a dark shade running |