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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 95 spots, one on each side of the fold before its middle, the one further removed from the base than the lower: a larger ill-defined spot on the middle of the dorsum, with a smaller one on the costa a little before it, between these a black dot on the cell, followed by some black speckling and two smaller parallel black dots at the end of the cell; cilia ashy grey. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. Hind wings pale grey ; cilia with a slight brownish tinge. Abdomen grey. Legs cinereous, banded at the sides with greyish fuscous. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 8 VI. (Pontoppidan); ST. THOMAS, 11 III.-18 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Twelve specimens. This species differs from insularis, Wlsm., in the more acute and attenuated apex of the hind wings. 98. AUXIMOBASIS PERSIMILELLA, Wlsm. Auximobasis persimileUa, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 534-5, 547, PL XLI. 9 a-c (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-ST. VINCENT l. 99. AUXIMOBASIS BREVIPALPELLA, sp. n. Antennce cinereous, basal joint hoary. Palpi cinereous, stained with fuscous externally, except at the tips of the second and apical joints. Head and thorax hoary grev. Fore wings hoary grey, sprinkled with fuscous scales ; an ill-defined pale fuscous band, slightly before the middle of the wing, is angulated outwardly on the fold and is diffused outwards, leaving the basal portion somewhat paler than the apical; the usual pair of fuscous dots are adjacent to the end of the cell (the first dot usual in these genera is not visible in all specimens); a slight broken fuscous shade follows the margin of the wing around the apex and base of the hoary speckled cilia. Exp. al. 12-13 mm. Hind wings shining brownish grey; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs: hind tibiae and tarsi cinereous, shaded externally with faint bands of fuscous. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-GRENADA (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 25-30 VIII.; 1-5 X.-H. H. Smith). Four specimens. Scarcely distinguishable from persimilella, Wlsm., except by the slightly broader wings and by the distinctly shorter palpi. 100. AUXIMOBASIS ELAVICILIATA, sp. n. Antennce dirty whitish, the basal joint enlarged with a strong pecten. Palpi smooth, erect, the apical joint nearly as long as the second ; hoary whitish. Head and thorax smooth ; hoary whitish. Fore wings hoary white, minutely grey-speckled, without markings ; cilia pale yellowish. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind wings very pale |