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Show 88 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate, apex not depressed, termen oblique and evenly rounded, not sinuate beneath apex, tornus not apparent, Neuration: 11 veins(2 and 3 coincident); 7 and 8 stalked out of 6, 7 to costa slightly before apex ; 4 approximated to 2 + 3; 1 furcate at base. Hind wings as broad as the fore wings; costa sinuate from before middle, clothed almost from the base with cilia of even length; strongly and angularly excavate beneath the produced apex, tornus rounded, dorsum straight, abdominal angle developed. Neuration : 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 5 approximated to 6, 6 and 7 somewhat approximated. Legs: hind tibiae with long hairs above and shorter ones beneath. Allied to Mesophleps, Hb., but differing in neuration and in the structure of the palpi. I have been unable to refer this form to any of the genera proposed by Chambers. 79. LATHONTOGENUS ADUSTIPENNIS, sp. n. Antennce whitish ochreous, faintly annulated. Palpi whitish ochreous, the second joint reddish brown externally except the outer end of the fringe on its upper side. Head and thorax whitish ochreous. Fore wings whitish ochreous at the base and a little way along the costa (with the exception of a narrow fawn-brown line along the extreme margin from the base), blending into pale fawn-ochreous over the remaining wing-surface; an umber-brown shade extending from before the middle of the costa to the apex ; three faint fawn-grey spots are visible, the first on the middle of the fold, the third at the end of the cell, and the second equidistant between them on the cell; cilia fawn-ochreous. Exp. al. 10-18 mm. Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen pale fawn-ochreous. Legs pale fawn-ochreous, tarsal joints transversely shaded. Type, 3 $ Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 27 IV.-5 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann) ; ST. T H O M A S , 11-19 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann) ; G R E N A DA (windward side, Balthazar, 250 ft., 15-27 IV.; leeward side, Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 25-30 VIII.-IT. H. Smith). The specimens from St. Thomas and St. Croix are uniformly smaller (10-13 mm.) than those from Grenada (14-18 mm.); but I consider them to be the same species. III. ffiCOPHORID^E. 26. ETHMIA, Hb. Type, Tinea aurijluella, Hb. ( = *pyrausta, Hb.). ETHMIA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 163 (1822 ?). n. syn. = PSECADIA, Hb. (1826); ^ANESYCHIA, Hb. (1826); -DISTHYMNIA, Hb. (1826) ; = MELANOLEUCA, Stph. (1829) |