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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 77 Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish ochreous. Hind legs creamy-whitish, with greyish-fuscous tibial shades and tarsal spots. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-JAMAICA (Kingston, VII. 1892-T. D. A. Cockerell). Seven specimens. " So abundant round the lamp in my house during the past week as to amount to a pest, getting into the drinking water, &c," Ckrll. i. 1.18 VII. 1892. 52. GELECHIA GUDMANNELLA, sp. n. Antennce pale brownish cinereous. Palpi whitish cinereous, shaded externally. Head and thorax pale brownish cinereous. Fore wings pale brownish cinereous, sparsely speckled with black; on the cell before the middle is a minute elongate black streaklet, followed by a second in the same line with it at the end of the cell; a small black spot on the fold lies below the first streaklet, and on the costal and apical portion a few slender pale lines are traceable along the veins, but these are very inconspicuous; around the termen and apex minute groups of blackish scales mark the base of the cilia, through the upper portion of which runs a slender dark line, the cilia being otherwise scarcely paler than the ground-colour. Exp. al. 8-10 mm. Hlrd wings shining greyish ; cilia paler, with a slight ochreous tinge ; on the costal margin near the base appears a slight thickening of cuticle, with a small brownish-ochreous hair-pencil. Abdomen pale brownish cinereous. Legs whitish cinereous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-SAN DOMINGO (Puerto Plata, 16 V.-Gudmann); ST. CROIX, 27 IV. (Gudmann); ST. THOMAS, bred from Solanum, 24-25 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 15. DlDACTYLOTA, Wlsm. = § DACTYLOTA, Snell. 53. DlDACTYLOTA BICOLOR, Wlsm. Didactylota bicolor, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 522, 546 (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-ST. VINCENT 1. 16. POLYHYMNO, Chamb. = COPOCERCIA, Z. 54. POLYHYMNO LUTEOSTRIGELLA, Chamb. = FUSCOSTRIGELLA, Chamb.3 Polyhymno luteostrigella, Chamb. Can. Ent. VI. 247-8 (1874) Polyhymno fuscostrigella, Chamb. Can. Ent. VIII. 30-1 (1876)2. Polyhymno luteostrigella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 161 (1878)3: Jr. Cin. Soc. N.H. II. 198, 203, fig. 26 (1880)4; Beut. |