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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 129 179. BALBIS FIGURANA, Z. Grapholitha (Coptoloma?) figurana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 163-5, PL II. 55 (1877) l. Coptoloma ? figurana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 505, 544 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-ST. THOMAS1 , 2 , 17 XII.1, 18 IV. (one specimen, Gudmann). 180. BALBIS ? EXCITANA, Mschl. Grapholitha excitana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 333-4, 354 (1891) l. Grapholitha ? excitana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 505, 543 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-PORTORICO1'2. I am unacquainted with this species, but it probably belongs here, as the genus to which Moschler referred it does not appear to occur in the West Indies. 68. EUCELIS, Hb. Type, Pyralls aurana, F. (Hb.). EUCELIS, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 394 (1826) ;=TRYCHERIS, Gn. Ind. Meth. 56 (1845), vide Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895, 516-7. =*EPINOTIA, Meyr. (nee Hb.) H B . Br. Lp. 516 (1895). In 1834 Stephens constituted Pcedlsca simulana, Hb., the type of Eplnotla, and Meyrick's genus does not contain any of Hiibner's types. 181. EUCELIS? LUSTROMARGINATA, sp. n. Antennce stone-grey. Head and palpi stone-ochreous. Fore wings stone-colour, transversely striated with brownish fuscous, giving the whole wing a speckled and streaked appearance; among many more slender lines two may be especially distinguished, although both broken and ill-defined, the first commencing on the costa at one-third from the base, angulated outwards above the middle and reverting to the dorsum almost at a right angle ; the second commencing on the middle of the costa, also outwardly rectangular above the middle, nearly parallel with the first, but slightly diverging toward the dorsum, which it reaches before the commencement of the cilia ; between these lines is a lustrous steel-grey sheen above the middle ; a series of geminated white streaklets along the costa, with some lustrous lines and a row of 4 or 5 black spots along the termen, the upper one being at the apex ; cilia shining steel-grey. Exp. al. 9 m m. Hind wings greyish fuscous, strongly iridescent in certain lights ; cilia shining steel-grey. (Underside of both wings brilliantly iridescent.) Abdomen grey. Legs greyish. Type, 2 Mus. Gudmann. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 4 V. (Hedemann). Unique. In the absence of the male this species cannot be referred with certainty to the genus Eucelis, and it differs from the type in having veins 3 and 4 of the hind wings coincident. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1897, No. IX. 9 |
