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Show 74 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, ochreous, obliquely banded on the tibiae and broadly annulated the tarsi with brownish grey. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 1-5 X. ; Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 5 IV.- 8 V.-H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 43. GELECHIA CROCIPUNCTELLA, Wlsm. Llta crocipunctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520-1, 546 (1892)\ Hah. West Indies-ST. VINCENT L 44. GELECHIA LEUCOCEPHALA, sp. n. Antennce dark fuscous. Palpi white, the second joint with a single dark spot at its base ; apical joint with two dark annulations, the first at the base, the other just before the apex. Head and face white. Thorax pale ochreous ; tegulae brownish fuscous. Fore wings pale ochreous, with dark brownish-fuscous mottlings or ill-defined patches ; the first at the base reaching the costa, but not the dorsum, is connected narrowly on the costa and along the fold with a second, which is larger and extends nearly to the middle of the wing but does not cross the fold, this is also narrowly connected aloug the costa with a smaller costal patch at two-thirds from the base, a few dark fuscous scales lying at the end of the cell below it; cilia pale ochreous, some dark fuscous scaling lying at their base along the termen and apex. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind wings pale shining grey; cilia pale greyish ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous. Type, 3 Mus. Gudmann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 6 III. (Gudmann). Unique. 45. GELECHIA CAPITELLA, F. n. syn. - ROBUSTELLA, Wkr.; n. syn. = RIVULELLA, Mschl. Alucita capitella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 330. No. 2 (1794) \ Phalcena (Alucita) capitella, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 379 (1806) Gelechia robustella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 597 (1864) 3. Gelechia rlvulella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. X V . 344 354 (1890)4. Gelechia robustella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 189l' 519, 545 (1892)5. Gelechia rlvulella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 189l' 519,545 (1892)6. Hah. West Indies-JAMAICA 3>3; PORTORICO4'6; [ST. CROIX (?=" America? Insulis, Dr. Pjlug"x), Wlsm.-]; ST. T H O M A S , 6 III. -5 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Bred by Baron von Hedemann, but the plant not identified. " It was bred from a very small plant growing on very dry sandy places, where also the moth was to be found in abundance " (Helm.). Fabricius obtained this species from Dr. Pflug, who died in St. Croix, which island is probably indicated by " in Americae |