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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 149 Maxillary palpi well-developed, not folded, slightly recurved, dependent or porrect, smooth. Haustellum moderate. Head and face smooth. Thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate, lanceolate, dorsum ciliate almost to base. Neuration: 8 veins ; 7 to costa, 8 absent, 3 and 4 absent, 6 absent. Hind wings narrow, lanceolate, acute, cilia 4. Neuration: 6 veins, cell open, 5 and 6 coincident, 3 and 4 coincident. Abdomen long, slender. Legs: hind tibia? pectinate above with moderately long stiff bristles, middle tibiae unclothed. Allied to Spanioptila, from which it differs essentially in the smooth middle tibiae, and in the hind tibia? being merely pectinate. 229. EUCOSMOPHORA DIVES, sp. n. Antennce pale greyish, with an aeneous sheen at the base. Palpi strongly recurved laterally, of even width throughout; whitish. Head and thorax smooth, shining metallic aeneous. Fore wings bright metallic aeneous, merging into cupreous before the apex ; nearly at the base of the costa is an elongate subovate black spot extending to about one-fourth; beyond it an elongate bright orange costal patch, before the middle of which is a shining silvery white oblong costal spot, slenderly black-margined except at its upper edge ; the orange patch is also margined beneath by a narrow black shade : a small blackish spot below the costa at the commencement of the costal cilia separates the orange patch from the cupreous apical portion of the wing, but the extreme apex becomes again shining aeneous ; cilia bronzy grey. Exp. cd. 8 m m . Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen beneath shining pale aeneous, above shaded with grey. Legs: hind tibiae with a comb of short bristles above throughout their length: pale straw-colour, tarsi unspotted. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West I n d i e s-GRENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., and Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., windward side, 13 IV.-15 Y.-H. H. Smith). Six specimens. 230. E U C O S M O P H O R A O R N A T A , sp. n. Antennce brownish. Labial and maxillary palpi white. Head and thorax white, both laterally tinged with pale olive-brown. Fore wings pale olive-brown from the base to nearly two-thirds, thence blending to rich reddish orange; a silver-white dorsal streak throughout, interrupted by a small orange spot at two-thirds the wing-length ; in the orange portion of the wing is a very oblique silvery metallic streak before the costal cilia, followed by two minute opposite silvery metallic marginal spots beyond which the costa and costal cilia are shining white, a fuscous streaklet running through them at the apex (accompanied by some |