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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 105 the apex. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale grey. Abdomen ochreous. Legs whitish, obliquely blotched with fuscous externally, spurs banded with black. Type, '3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-HAYTI (Cap Haiti, 18 V.-Gudmann)-, ST. THOMAS, 12 III.-17 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. 122. BATRACHEDRA TARSIMACULATA, sp. n. Antennce whitish ochreous, thickly barred above with fuscous, this colour forming three dark annulations before the apex. Palpi whitish, second joint with two fuscous spots, apical joint wdth two fuscous bands, one before the apex, the second near its base. Head whitish. Thorax dull straw-white. Fore wings dull straw-white ; a short curved fuscous streak from the base below the fold ; a long streak above it, also from the base, running along the costa to one-third the wing-length, thence slightly deviating downwards to the end of the cell; beneath its apex is a small dorsal spot, and above its apex commences on the costa another dark streak, which leaving the pale costal cilia runs to the apex and narrowly through the apical cilia (these markings are all dark fuscous); cilia straw-white, tending to greyish about the tornus. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen shining whitish ochreous. Legs straw-white; hind tibiae obliquely banded externally and their tarsi distinctly biannulate with dark fuscous. Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. THOMAS. 6 III.-9 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Four specimens. III. COSMOPTERYGINJE. 40. COSMOPTERYX, Hb. 123. COSMOPTERYX ATTENUATELLA, Wkr. n. syft.=.LESPEDEZ&, Wlsm. Gelechia attenuatella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. X X X . 1019 (1864)1. Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 198 (1882)2. [? = Cosmopteryx (? gemmlferella, Clem.), Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat, Ges. X V . 345, 354 (1890)3; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 536, 548 (1892)4.] Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 107. No. 5771 (1891)5. Gelechia attenuatella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519, 545 (1892)6. Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 536, 548 (1892)7. Hah. UNITED STATES2-5-Texas7, N. Carolina7. Larva Lespe-deza2' 7. West Indies-JAMAICA1'6 ; H A Y T I (Port-au-Prince, 22 V., Gudmann); [? PORTORICO3'l]; ST. CROIX, 3-31 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann, Pontoppldan); ST. VINCENT7 ; GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-15 IV. H. H. Smith). Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Croix, but the plant not identified. Cosmopteryx gemmlferella, Clem., is not known to occur in the |