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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 131 Type, 2 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 9 III. (Hedemann). Unique. Though I have little doubt that tins species belongs to tbe genus Cydia, it cannot be referred there with certainty in the absence of the male. 70. HELIGMOCERA, Wlsm. 183. HELIGMOCERA CALVIFRONS, Wlsm. Heligmocera calvifrons, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 508, 544, PL XLI. 5 a-cl (1892) >. Hab. West Indies-ST. VINCENT J ; GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-8 Y.-H. H. Smith). II. TORTRIC1NM. 71. OXYGRAPHA, Hb. §PERONEA, Crt. Br. Ent. I. expl. PL XVI. (1825). Type, Pyralls crlstana, F. (Crt.). •fOxiGRAPHA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 386 (1826). Type, Tortrix literana, L. (Hb.). JOXYGRAPHA, Wilk. Br. Tortr. 160 (1859). TERAS, Hein.; Stgr. & Wk. Cat.; Fern. &c. (nee Tr. + Dp.). ACALLA, Meyr. H B . Br. Lp. 519-20 (1895) (nee Hb. + Stph.). Peronea, Crt., is the oldest name for the genus, but it is too close to Peroncea, Poll, 1795. Oxlgrapha, Hb. (corrected to Oxygrapha by Wilkinson), was monotypical from its publication, and should therefore be chosen in preference to any other name proposed for species of this genus by Hiibner. Teras, Tr., is synonymous with Rhacodla, Hb., its type being caudana, F., following Curtis (1831) and Duponchel(1834), the latter citing the type. The type of Acalla, Hb., was fixed as Tortrix opththalml-cana, Hb. (a Pcedlsca), by Stephens in 1834 (vide 111. IV. 141). The three following species differ from the type in having 4 of the fore wings stalked and 3 and 4 of the hind wings coincident ; at present I am unwilling to separate them genetically from Oxygrapha. 184. OXYGRAPHA NEGANS, sp. n. Antennce brownish. Palpi short, suberect, apical joint exposed, second joint loosely clothed ; rusty brownish. Head rust-brown. Thorax olive-grey with a greenish tinge. Fore wings olive-grey with a greenish tinge, the costa shining pale bronzy-brown throughout, the termen and cilia the same; an oblique series of raised fuscous scales extends from the costa before the middle in a slightly outwardly bowed line towards the middle of the dorsum ; this is followed beyond the middle by ill-defined, scarcely visible, parallel lines of pale brown (not iridescent, but appearing only in certain lights). Exp. al. 16 m m . Hind wings trapezoidal; umber-brown, with a pale line along the base of the umber-brown cilia, |