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Show 96 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, grey, with pale yellowish cilia. Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs whitish. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hah. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 21-23 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Two specimens. 101. AUXIMOBASIS CONSTANS, sp. n. Antennce smoky cinereous. Palpi: apical joint scarcely more than half as long as the second joint; hoary cinereous on their inner sides, with a smoky shade externally, except at the apex of the apical and second joints. Head and thorax griseous. Fore wings whitish, with minute smoky speckling; tbe costa near the base and along the middle with a smoky shade, which also somewhat suffuses the cilia to the apex ; the usual three dots are small but clearly defined, the first before and slightly above the middle, the two outer corresponding to the apical and tornal angles of the cell; a series of less clearly defined dark smoky spots on the margin on either side of the apex defining the outline of the cilia; cilia with a slight ochreous tinge about the tornus. Exp. al. 10-12 m m . Hind wings shining yellowish grey ; cilia also slightly tinged with ochreous. Abdomen greyish cinereous. Legs pale cinereous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 9-27 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens, 30. ICONISMA, g. n. (eiKoviapa=& copy.) Type, Iconisma macrocera, Wlsm. Antennce with strong pecten, without a notch in 3, fully as long as the fore wings, narrowed immediately beyond the basal joint and somewhat flattened and taeniaform beyond it. Maxillary palpi short. Labial palpi slender, projecting, apical joint slightly shorter than the second. Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate, narrow at the base, somewhat acute. Neuration: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hind wings wdth the abdominal angle well developed, narrow, tapering rapidly to an acute point. Neuration: 8 veins, 3 separate, 4 and 5 stalked. Abdomen somewhat flattened. Legs: hind tibiae hairy above. So far as neuration is concerned, the European species Blastobasis anthophaga, Stgr., should be placed in this genus; but the form of the antennae differs materially in not possessing the taeniaform character which distinguishes 'the type, although it agrees with it in having no notch. |
