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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 123 side pi the thorax beneath the wing and may easily be overlooked, but when spread out it is very noticeable, appearing like thistledown at the base of the costa. The occurrence of this character in both sexes may suggest a different train of thought to those who have enunciated various theories to account for the functional utility of such structures hitherto observed in the male sex only. This observation is founded on the examination of many specimens belonging to several described and undescribed Transatlantic species. 164. EPISIMUS T R A N S F E R R A N U S , Wkr. [TRANSFERRANUS, Wkr. + TRANSFERRANUS, Wkr. Carpocapsa transfer rana, Wkr. Oat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 398 (1863)Episimus transferrana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 502, 543 (1892)2. Hab. BRAZIL (Ega)l>2.] TRANSFERRANUS, Wkr. + VINCENTANUS, Wlsm. Episimus transferrana, Wkr. -f- vlncentana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. S. Lond. 1891, 502, 543, Pl. XLI. 3 (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-ST. VINCENT \ 165. EPISIMUS AUGMENTANUS, Z. Grapholitha (Heclga) augmentana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 160-1 (1877) \ Episimus augmentana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 502, 543 (1892)2. Hah. West Indies-CUBA1 , 2; G R E N A D A (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 20 IV.-H. H. Smith). 166. EPISIMUS NESIOTES, sp. n. Antennce: 3, stout, slightly pubescent; bone-colour, with a rufous tinge towards the base. Palpi somewhat club-shaped, the apical joint scarcely visible; bone-white on their inner sides, rufous externally. Head reddish ochreous ; face rufous, a transverse whitish band between the eyes. Thorax whitish, anteriorly margined with reddish brown. Fore wings mottled with reddish brown and bone-white with some admixture* of bluish grey ; the bone-white is especially noticeable in a large elongate dorsal patch extending to the fold, transversely barred and thus almost obliterated on the basal half; it is also noticeable in a series of short outwardly oblique costal streaks, and at the outer end of the cell in an inwardly curved line of which the lower extremity reaches the upper angle of the somewhat indistinct ocelloid patch (containing two black dots set in rosy-white preceded by a steel-grey shade) ; some oblique slender steel-grey lines extend outwards from the lower extremities of the pale costal streaks : cilia reddish brown mixed with bone-grey. Exp. al. 3 14 mm., $ 17 m m . Hind wings shining brownish grey, with somewhat paler cilia. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs bone-whitish. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsin. |