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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 73 with whitish ochreous. Head whitish, mottled with dark brown. Thorax dark brown, with faint whitish specklings at the tips of the scales; a silvery spot behind at the base of the abdomen. Fore wings dark brown, much mottled with whitish ochreous, mingled with iridescent green reflections ; the paler colouring does not extend to the base but only to the sinuate oblique outer edge of a strongly-marked dark basal patch, the green metallic reflections being especially noticeable beyond its outer margin; below the middle of the costal margin is a small ocelloid spot with a dark brown centre, and the pale upper margin is preceded by a smaller one and followed by a third spot a little more distant from it, which forms the outer extremity of a dark brown shade; three patches of raised whitish-ochreous scales, the first on the disc before the middle, and two below the disc almost reaching the dorsum, the one before the other behind the middle; the apical portion of the wing is much mottled and contains a paler costal patch at one-fourth from the apex ; cilia dark brown, at the apex mottled with whitish ochreous and tending to dull grey at the tornus. Exp. cd. 13 m m . Hind wings very transparent, the veins indicated by greyish brown, the intermediate spaces except at the apex with bright steel-blue iridescence ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish brown. Hind legs dark brown, spotted and banded with whitish ochreous. Tgpe, 3 Mus. Gudmann. Hah. West Indies-HAYTI (Cap Haiti, 18 V., Gudmann). Unique. This species has somewhat the appearance of Xenolechia humer-cdls, Z. 41. GELECHIA TRANSLUCIDA, Wlsm. Bryotropha translucida, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520, (1892)\ Hah. West Indies-DOMINICA 1 ; ST. VINCENT l; GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft,, windward side, 27 IV.; Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 3-10 IX.-H. H. Smith). In the original description, by a clerical error, the type was recorded as a $ ; it is a 3 • 42. GELECHIA SPHENOPHORA, sp. n. Antennce brownish grey. Palpi brownish fuscous ; apical joint with a pale ochreous spot at its apex. Head and thorax brownish grey. Fore wings olive-brown, inclining to ferruginous at the base, the lighter basal patch is bounded externally by an oblique cuneiform ochreous streak, tending outwards from the costa at one-fifth from the base and reaching to the fold ; a small ochreous spot lies at the end of the discal cell, and a larger, rather paler, costal spot at the commencement of the costal cilia; around the termen are four or five ill-defined pale ochreous spots before the commencement of the olive-brown cilia. Exp. al. 10 m m . Hind wings blue-grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish |