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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 147 226. LITHOCOLLETIS TENUICAUDELLA, Wlsm. Antennce saffron. Pcdpi whitish. Head pale saffron; face silvery white. Thorax pale saffron. Fore wings pale saffron, with four costal and dorsal streaks shining white, slightly dark-margined before and behind : the first two costal streaks are conspicuous and oblique (the first a little before the middle, the second a little beyond it), the third and fourth costal are very small immediately before the apex, their points turned slightly inwards; the first dorsal arises on the middle, its apex reaching as far as that of the second costal, but it is much less clearly defined: the second and third dorsal are opposite to the outer costal streaks, but are also indistinct; a round black spot lies at the extreme apex, a slender smoky line running through the cilia in a half circle beyond it, to which is attached a slender smoky line running straight outward to the end of the cilia, which are slightly marked with white above and below it; dorsal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 5 mm. Hind wings and cilia greyish. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish, with faint tarsal spots. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 1 V. (Hedemann). Unique. 90. ORNIX, Tr. 227. ORNIX ERRANTELLA, sp. n. Antennce slightly longer than the fore wings; yellowish grey. Palpi drooping, slender ; whitish cinereous. Head with projecting scales above ; pale cinereous. Thorax pale stone-grey. Fore wings pale stone-grey, with brownish-fuscous longitudinal streaks: the first commencing at the base leaves the costa at one-fourth, extending to the outer end of the cell where it almost joins a sharply-angulated costal streak of the same colour; the second commencing at the base of the dorsum extends to two-thirds the wing-length, its lower edge obtusely biangulated and more sharply defined than its upper edge, which is somewhat diffused ; a slender streak from before the tornus points towards the apex, but is terminated by a reduplicated oblique transverse bar extending outward to the termen, above the tornus, from the commencement of the costal cilia; the central space between the dark margins of this band is somewhat silvery, and beyond the band the triangular apical space left by it contains a dark fuscous spot margined before and beneath by silvery scales, with a short streak of the same from the apex; cilia brownish grey, becoming whiter towards the apex. Exp. al. 8*5 m m . Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs bone-whitish, with faintly mottled tarsal joints. Type, 3 Mus. Gudmann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 18 III. (Gudmann). Unique. 10* |