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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 93 92. BLASTOBASIS TRIANGULARIS, sp. n. Antennce pale fawn-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, the tips of the joints paler. Head cinereous ; face slightly ochreous. Thorax dusky cinereous. Fore wings dusky cinereous ; the costa narrowly subochreous throughout, the usual three spots almost obscured by the dusky ground-colour, but traceable in the ordinary positions- the first before and slightly above the middle, the other two corresponding to the apical and tornal angles of the cell (there is a slight sprinkling of scattered subochreous scales over the wing-surface in a bred specimen); cilia cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge. Exp. al. 10-12 m m . Hind wings thinly scaled between the upper veins in the 3; brownish fuscous, with a faint purplish gloss ; cilia inclining to ochreous. Abdomen brownish fuscous; anal tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous ; hind tarsal joints inclining to ochreous. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann; $ Mus. Gudmann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 11 III.-15 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Two specimens. Bred by Baron von Hedemann from a black larva feeding on a low plant which was not identified. The $ has the hind wings much paler and less marked, and of a greyer tinge ; the anal tuft is ochreous, as in the 3. 93. BLASTOBASIS GRACILIS, sp. n. Antennce and palpi bone-colour, the latter slightly shaded externally. Head and thorax bone-colour. Fore wings bone-colour, with a slight vinous tinge, sparsely sprinkled and mottled with pale brownish fuscous; the usual three dots are fairly conspicuous, but the first of these, scarcely before the middle, is preceded by a slio-ht indication of another spot immediately above the middle of the fold; the termen shows a very faint indication of a broken fuscous line; cilia bone-grey. Exp. al. 11 m m . Hind wings shining pale bone-grey ; cilia with a slight vinous gloss. Abdomen bone-grey; anal tuft bone-colour. Legs pale cinereous: hind tibiae slightly shaded externally. Type, 3 $ Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 5-27 IV.-II. H. Smith). Four specimens. 28. PIGRITIA, Clem. 94. PIGRITIA? BIATOMELLA, sp. n. Antennce stoutish, greyish ochreous, the basal joint with a thick tuft of mixed black and ochreous scales beneath. Palpi fuscous, sometimes ochreous at the junction of the second and terminal joints, internally pale ochreous. Head ochreous, much mixed with black. Fore wings smoky at the base, pale greyish ochreous beyond, more or less suffused with fuscous, with a small black dot at the end of the cell, a second near the dorsum immediately below it; cilia pale greyish. Exp. al. 9 m m . Hind wings and cilia pale |