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Show 132 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, which are grey on their outer half. Abdomen umber-brown. Legs cinereous. Type, 2 Mus. Gudmann. flofc. West Indies-HAYTI (Port-au-Prince, 22 V.- Gudmann). One specimen. 185. OXYGRAPHA MONOCHROMA, sp. n. Antennce fuscous. Palpi suberect, apical joint exposed ; reddish brown, slightly paler than the colour of the head. Head reddish brown.' Thorax brownish fuscous: underside pale cinereous. Fore wings reddish brown, with slightly paler mottlings on the outer half, and a slight shining greyish shade preceded by a slender ferruginous line before the termen; cilia reddish brown. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind wings dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous : underside pale cinereous. Legs cinereous shaded with fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-HAYTI (Port-au-Prince, 22-24 V.-Gudmann). Two specimens. 186. OXYGRAPHA ROTUNDIPENNIS, sp. n. Antennce cinereous. Palpi projecting less than the length of the head beyond it; dusky cinereous. Head cinereous. Thorax tawny cinereous. Fore wings abruptly arched near the base, of approximately even width throughout, the apex and termen evenly rounded, the costa roughened from base to apex ; tawny reddish, with a faintly indicated oblique greyish-fuscous shade from before the middle of the costa, extending to the lower edge of the cell; a similar curved shade before the apex ; waved lines of sublustrous scales are visible on the outer half of the wing in certain lights ; a small black dot at the end of the cell; cilia shining reddish grey. Exp. al. 3 10, $ 11 mm. Hind wings trapezoidal; greyish fuscous ; cilia very long and slightly paler. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm.; $ Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 8-22 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens. " The larva feeds on Acacia arabica, joining two leaves together, between which it lives as in a sort of case " (Hedemann). In the male the colour of the fore wings is dull fawn ochreous, the tawny gloss almost entirely confined to the two darker markings, which are much more conspicuous than in the female. The antenna? are slightly serrate and pubescent beneath. 72. APINOGLOSSA, Mschl. & Saalm. 187. APINOGLOSSA COMBURANA, Mschl. Apinoglossa comburana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. X V . 331, 354 (1894)1; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 496, 543 (1892)2. Hah. West Indies-PORTORICO1,2. |