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Show 150 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, orange) in an uncate form ; cilia below the apex white, an line descending through them near their tips, and a dark fuscous line marking their base along the termen ; cilia behind the tornus grey. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen pale brownish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, tarsal joints faintly dark-spotted; hind tibia? distinctly clothed with a stiff pecten of ochreous hairs above. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-GRENADA (Balthazar, 300 ft., windward side, 8 V.-H. H. Smith). Unique. 231. EUCOSMOPHORA INSULELLA, Wlsm. Zarathralnsulella. Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 538-9 (1892)1. Zarathra Insulsella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 548 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-SAN D O M I N G O (Puerto Plata, 16 V.- Gudmann) ; ST. VINCENT1. 232. EUCOSMOPHORA CUPREELLA, sp. n. Antennce fuscous, longer than the fore wings. Pcdpi somewhat slender, slightly recurved, the apical joint as long as the second ; whitish. Head ochreous. Thorax cupreous. Fore wings coppery brown with a slight gloss ; a slender ochreous line along the dorsum from the base; a narrow outwardly oblique costal streak a little beyond the middle, white blending into steel-grey at its lower extremity; a transverse outwardly curved steel-grey band crosses the wing before the apex terminating in an ochreous spot on the costa, the space before it rich chestnut blending into the groundcolour, the space beyond it bright ochreous, separated from the whitish ochreous cilia by a steel-grey line with a small chestnut spot at the apex. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs brownish grey; hind tibia? with the apex and spurs white, hind tarsi whitish barred with greyish. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-JAMAICA (Monteague, 1100 ft., XI.-Rendall). Unique. 93. DIALECTICA, g. n. (£ia\eKriKos=provocative of discussion.) Type, Gracilarla scalariella, Z. Antennce not exceeding the length of the fore wings, simple. Labial palpi smooth, drooping; the apical joint as long as the second, slightly recurved. Maxillary palpi slender, smooth, acute, porrect. Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate, attenuated at the apex, with long cilia, ornamented with recurved lines. Neuration : 11 veins, all separate, 7 to costa. |