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Show 128 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, ST. LUCIA (Point Michell, Castle Bruce, 15 II., 30 IX.); l; G R E N A D A (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 5-20 IV.- H. H. Smith). Baron von Hedemann observes that this species was bred by Mr. Gudmann, but does not mention the name of the plant, No specimen was included in the collection sent to me by Mr. Gudmann. 67. BALBIS, g. n. (j3a\f3is=& starting point.) Type, Garpocapsa assumptana, Wkr. Antennce less than §, stout, simple. Palpi porrect; second joint slightly curved, moderately clothed ; apical joint blunt, exposed, projecting forward. Haustellum short. Head roughly clothed above. Thorax smooth, with hair-pencil arising beneath base of costa (appressed to side, but probably expansible, as in Episimus). Fore wings, 3 without a costal fold ; costa slightly arched at base, somewhat straight beyond, thence rounded to the depressed apex, termen not sinuate, tornus rounded. Neuration : 12 veins, all separate; 2 from before three-fourths, 7 to termen. Hind wings evenly rounded, not sinuate beneath apex. Neuration : 8 veins ; 6 and 7 remote at origin, parallel; 8 approximated to radius: 3 and 4 connate ; 5 almost straight, but somewhat approximated to 4. Legs, hind tibise smooth. Agreeing with Dichrorampha and Lipoptgcha in having 6 and 7 of the hind wings parallel, but differing in the palpi and in the unsinuate termen, and probably intermediate between these genera and Laspegresla, Hb. ( = Grapholitha, HS.). 176. BALBIS ASSUMPTANA, Wkr. Garpocapsa assumptana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 406 (1863) l. Hah. BRAZIL (Ega) \ West Indies-GRENADA (Grand Etang, 1900 ft., windward side, 30 Y.-H. H. Smith). 177. BALBIS ALBICAPITANA, Wlsm. Coptoloma ? albicapitana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 505-6 544 (1892) \ Hah. West Indies-ST. V I N C E N T \ 178. BALBIS? LIVENS, Wlsm. Grapholitha livens, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 504-5 543 (1892)1. Hab. West Indies-ST. V I N C E N T \ This species is probably rightly referred to this genus, but the type was headless when received. |