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Show 152 LORD WALSINGHAM O N [Jan. 19, 235. DlALECTICA PERMIXTELLA, Sp. n. Antennce yellowish. Palpi white, with a grey spot before the apex of the terminal joint, which is especially conspicuous on the underside. Head stramineous. Thorax dirty whitish. Fore wings dirty whitish on the basal half, straw-ochreous beyond, with greyish-fuscous streaks and reticulations, on the basal half these are placed transversely ; a reduplicated patch from the base of the costa, not quite reaching the dorsum, is more conspicuous than some more slender similar markings beyond it; beyond the middle of the wing the markings assume a longitudinal direction, but are curved and interlaced so as to form enclosed patches of the ochreous ground-colour, of which the most conspicuous is an obliquely placed patch at three-fourths the wing-length, its lower extremity directed inwards between two greyish fuscous lines, the lower of which is reduplicated, the upper one being preceded by similar curved lines running between ochreous patches; near the apex is a slightly curved narrow shining whitish fascia, dark-margined on each side, and at the extreme apex is a dark spot followed by a curved line around the termen at the base of the whitish cilia, through which runs a dark uncate streaklet. Exp. cd. 6-9 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish fuscous. Abdomen brownish ochreous. Hind legs white, spotted with dark brownish fuscous on the posterior end of the tibiae and at the commencement and middle of the tarsi, the spurs also are dark brownish fuscous. Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-S. D O M I N G O (Sanches, 14 V.-Gudmann); G R E N A D A (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 1 IV.-4 Y.-H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 236. DlALECTICA APICEPUNCTELLA, Wlsm. Gracilaria aplcepunctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 540, 548 (1892) \ Hab. West Indies - S T . VINCENT1. 94. GRACILARIA, HW. 237. GRACILARIA CENEOCAPITELLA, Wlsm. Gracilaria ceneocapltella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 539-548 (1892). Hah. West Indies-ST. VINCENT1. 238. GRACILARIA SIMILATELLA, Z. Gracilaria similatella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 411-Pl. VI.. 144 (1877)K Hah. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 30IV. (Gudmann) ; St. T H O M A S , 14 IV. (Hedemann). COLOMBIA-Chipo, 8 VI.1 Bred by Mr. Gudmann, but the plant not identified. |
