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Show 78 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, Ent. Am. V. 37 (1889)5; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 95, 96, Pl. VII. 78 (1891)6; Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 104, No. 5586 (1891) \ Hab. UNITED STATES1'7, VIII.1 West Indies-JAMAICA (Monteague, 1100 ft., XL-Bendall); ST. T H O M A S , 12 III.-2 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 55. POLYHYMNO LATERESTRIATA, sp. n. Antennce white, faintly shaded with greyish ochreous beyond the base. Palpi white. Head white. Thorax greyish ; tegulae white. Fore wings shining silvery white, the extreme apical portion bright orange : a very oblique brownish-grey costal streak, followed by a scarcely less oblique white one, runs through the orange space nearly to a conspicuous white-margined black spot at the apex, and is met by a more slender oblique streak from the dorsum, also followed by a parallel white streak, wider than the one above it, and nearly divided at its middle by a slender dark line reverting from the tornus ; cilia on their upper half with a shining bronzy shade at their base and a grey line running through them obliquely downwards from the apex ; on their lower half whitish. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind wings whitish grey ; cilia white, a reduplicated dark line running through them across the apex. Abdomen whitish, shaded with grey above, with a series of oblique lateral grey streak-lets on either side; anal tuft whitish. Legs white ; hind tarsi shaded and spotted with greyish fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 30 III.-10 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 56. POLYHYMNO SCIURELLA, sp. n. Antennce white. Palpi shining white. Head and thorax shining white. Fore wings shining bluish white, with an elongate bright orange patch preceding the apex and reaching the costa but not the dorsum ; this is preceded by a slight greyish shade, which does not extend along its upper edge and is followed by a strong black apical spot; before and below the spot is an outwardly curved greyish shade, partly enclosing an elongate silver-white oblique streak along the tornus ; alternate orange and greyish-fuscous lines diverge downwards from the apex through the upper half of the cilia, which are plain greyish white about the tornus. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings pale blue-grey; cilia whitish grey, with two slender dark lines crossing them at the apex. Abdomen silverv, with a remarkably long and dense pale ochreous anal tuft in the male. Legs : hind tibiae pale ochreous ; tarsi white, the spurs tipped and the tarsi biannulate with greyish fuscous Tgpe, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 22-24 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens. |
