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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 125 which it is somewhat dilated ; the apical portion of the two umber-brown costal streaks, the first of which sends out a narrow chestnut-brown line to the termen beneath the apex, the apex itself being dark umber-brown mixed with fuscous scales ; an obliquely ascending patch of the same colour, also narrowly dark-margined, rests at its base on the lower half of the termen ; an umber-brown patch within the tornus is preceded and followed by a silvery-grey space ; cilia rich chestnut-brown along their base, their extremities being dark fuscous. Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hind wings greyish brown ; cilia paler, shaded along their base. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs whitish cinereous; hind tibiae with a tuft of hairs beneath (on their inner sides, along their anterior half) ; middle femora shining white. Tgpe, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-20 IV.: nine specimens.-H. H. Smith). This species varies considerably in the colour of the fore wings, in some specimens assuming a rich reddish brown (almost ferruginous) tint, the thorax matching the colour of the basal half of the wing. 61. CACOCHARIS, Wlsm. 169. CACOCHARIS ALBIMACULA, Wlsm. Cacocharis albimacula, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond, 1891, 503-543, PL XLI. 4 (1892)l. Hah. BRAZIL - (Ceara, VIII.-Leech, Mus. Wlsm.). West Indies - S T . VINCENT '. 62. ANCYLIS, Hb. = PHOXOPTERIS, Tr.; =PHOXOPTERYX, Sdf. 170. ANCYLIS VIRIDIDORSANA, Mschl. Phoxopteryx virididorsana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 354 (1890) 1. Phoxopterls virididorsana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 504, 543 (1892)2. Hah. West Indies-PORTORICO1-2. 63. THIODIA, Hb. Type, Tortrix citrana, Hb. (Stph.). THIODIA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 391 (1826); Stph. List Br. An. B.M. X. Lp. 63 (1852). - *CYDIA (Hb. partlm), Meyr. H B . Br. Lp. 482-3 (1895) (nee Stph.). = SEMASIA, Stgr. & W k . Cat. (partlm); Fern. Hiibner proposed Thiodia for his two species citrana and sulphurana ( = rhododendronalis, Dp.); and Stephens in 1852 constituted citrana the type. The name Cyclia cannot be employed for this genus, as its type is Tinea pomonella, L. (vide p. 130). |