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Show 148 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, 91. SPANIOPTILA, g. n. (<T7raVtos = slender; 7rr/W = wing.) Type, Spanioptila splnosum, Wlsm. Antennce longer than the fore wings, simple; basal joint with a pecten. Labial palpi long, slender, drooping, curved, divergent, naked; terminal joint shorter than second. Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform, drooping. Haustellum moderate. Head and face smooth. Thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate, lanceolate, dorsum ciliate almost to base. Neuration: 8 veins ; 11 absent, 10 absent, 7 to apex, 3 absent. Hind wings linear, acute, cilia 5. Neuration: 6 veins ; cell open, 3 and 4 coincident, 5 and 6 coincident. Abdomen long and slender. Legs : front tibia? slightly thickened with scales at their end; middle and hind tibia? and tarsi clothed with spiny hairs, tending to arrange themselves in tufts. Allied to Gracilarla, but distinguishable by the narrower wings and consequently more degraded neuration, by the pecten on the basal joint of the antenna?, and by the bristly middle and hind legs. 228. SPANIOPTILA SPINOSUM, sp. n. Antennce white, the basal joint with a pecten beneath. Pcdpi white. Head snow-white. Thorax w7hite, with a yellowish tinge. Fore wings white, with a yellowish tinge and some dark brownish transverse speckling which becomes agglomerated in two elongate dorsal marks, one before and one beyond the middle, also in a faint costal spot above each of them ; a slender ochreous shade runs from the end of the cell to the apex where a smoky line crosses the cilia, giving a falcate appearance not due to the form of the wing which is acute; the cilia, which extend along the dorsum nearly to the base, are tawrny greyish. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind ivlngs pale grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen shining whitish. Legs white ; bristly above on the hind tibia? and tarsi, the latter flecked with umber-brown at the feet and spurs. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 22 III.-12 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. 92. EUCOSMOPHORA, g. n. (ev=beautiful; Koapos = an ornament; (f>opeTv = to carry.) Type, Eucosmophora dives, Wlsm. Antennce more than 1|, simple; basal joint without a pecten. Labial palpi strongly recurved laterally, smooth; apical joint longer than second. |