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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MIORO-LEPIDOPTERA. 135 Grenada have a short fold and much resemble lablosana, Z., are smaller. 196. PLATYNOTA BREVIPLIOANA, sp. n. Antennce dark brown. Palpi brownish ochreous. Head and thorax brownish ochreous. Fore wings with a short brownish-ochreous basal patch, somewhat indented on the fold; the costal fold in the male not extending beyond this pale patch, which reaches only to one-fourth the wing-length (in the more northern species flavedana, Clem., it extends to half the wing-length) ; the whole of the middle portion of the wing is overclouded by a broad dark umber-brown band, beyond which the terminal portion is shining whitish ochreous with two sinuate lines of slightly raised scales ; there are also some raised scales on the dark central band, notably in an oblique line from its upper and inner angle ending in a strong patch near the outer end of the fold and in a small patch at the outer end of the cell; cilia pale cinnamon-brown on their basal, brownish ochreous on their outer half. Exp. al. 15 mm. Hind wings cinnamon-brown, blending to ochreous towards the base; cilia shining pale cinnamon-brown. Abdomen cinnamon-brown. Legs brownish ochreous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15-20 IV.-H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 197. PLATYNOTA DIMINUTANA, sp. n. Antennce dark greyish brown. Palpi somewhat curved downwards ; apical joint less than half the length of the second; grey-brown. Head and thorax rust-brown. Fore wings: male with a short costal fold extending to one-fourth; rust-brown, with a broad central band, thickly mottled with purplish fuscous in which is an oblique line of raised scales ending on the fold, and a second line, shorter and more oblique, from beyond the middle of the costa where it is accompanied by a dark patch ; a small patch of dark fuscous scales lies near the base of the dorsum; cilia ferruginous brown on their basal half, pale ochi-eous on their outer half. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind wings cinnamon-brown, tending to ochreous towards the base; cilia shining pale cinnamon-browTn. Abdomen brownish ochreous. Legs pale ochreous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 IV.-H. H. Smith). Two specimens. This species differs from brevlpllcana in the more broken or mottled appearance of the central band, which almost assumes the form of an oblique fascia followed by a costal patch, and in the darker ferruginous terminal portion of the wing. It is quite conceivable that it may be a variety of brevlpllcana, but l a m strongly inclined to regard" it as distinct in the absence of intermediate forms. Except in the colour of the hind wings it approaches somewhat closely the Mexican species stultana, Wlsm. |