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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LKPIDOPTEltA. 143 Legs: hind tibia? clothed with somewhat long whitish hairs wrhite, basal joint distinctly marked with fus cons. Type, 3 Mus. Gudmann. Hab. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 12-16 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens. 85. COPTODISCA, Wlsm. ^ASPIDISCA, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 11-12, 209 (1860); Stn. Tin. N. Am. 104-5 (fig.), 143 (1872). COPTODISCA, Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. X X X I . 41 (1895). 216. COPTODISCA RHIZOPHORCE, sp. n. Antennce and pcdpi silvery. Head: face silvery, the head above with a golden sheen. Fore wings golden yellow, with a pair of silvery-whitish costal and dorsal streaks beyond the middle (the dorsal somewhat preceding the costal), both dark-margined before and behind; a very oblique silvery costal streak, also dark-margined, occurs at one-third from the base, and before the apex is a small silvery costal spot, also dark-margined, its outer marginal streak extending downward through the terminal cilia beyond a rounded velvety-black subterminal dot; cilia silvery whitish, with a curved line along their base from the tornus to the subterminal dot; the dorsum slightly silvery. Exp. al. 3-5-4 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale greyish. Abdomen greyish. Legs silvery. Co-types, (1-2) Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies - ST. THOMAS, 15III.-30IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Four specimens. " The young larva mines in leaves of Rhizophora mangle ; later on it cuts a case out of the leaves" (Hedemann). Bred by Baron von Hedemann and Mr. Gudmann. Mr. Gudmann found a leaf containing twenty-four mines. Nearly allied to splendorlferella, Clem. 86. CYCLOPLASIS, Clem. [Clem. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. II. 423-4 (1864); Stn. Tin. N. Am. 246-8 (1872).] 217. CYCLOPLASIS BASIPLAGATA, sp. n. Antennce shining greyish. Palpi and head silvery. Thorax pale fawn ; shining pale creamy-metallic beneath. Fore wings and costal cilia shining pale fawn, a short basal patch darker fawn-grey ; dorsal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 4 mm. Hind wings and cilia tawny greyish. Abdomen tawny grey : underside shining pale creamy metallic. Legs pale fawn ; the spines on the tibia? and tarsi very distinct. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 10III.-10IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Two specimens. Larva in a case similar to that of a Coleophora (Hedemann) ; on |
