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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 153 239. GRACILARIA PULVERELLA, sp. n. Antennce cinereous, faintly annulated. Palpi cinereous. Head, pale cinereous. Thorax dull pale greyish fuscous. Fore wings dull pale greyish fuscous, somewhat mottled on their outer half with shining steel-grey (visible only in a strong light); a pale line along the base of the costal cilia continuing round the apex is dilated to the tornus, covering one half the cilia on the terminal margin, thus leaving a small dark hook beyond it at the apex, two slender dark fuscous lines run along the base and along the middle of the cilia respectively. Exp. al. 6*5 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen with a slight reddish tinge. Legs cinereous. Type, 2 Mus. Hedemann. Hah. West Indies-SAN D O M I N G O (Puerto Plata, 16 V.-Gudmann) ; ST. T H O M A S , 2 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 240. GRACILARIA UNDOSA, sp. n. Antennce very pale fawn, faintly annulated. Pcdpi white. Head very pale fawn. Thorax white. Fore wings very pale fawn, with a slender sinuate white line from the base of the dorsum to the termen below the apex, touching the dorsum at its two downward bends ; three oblique white costal streaks, the first scarcely before the middle, the third coalescing with an inverted white spot before the apex, a few dark brown scales around the margins of the streaks ; cilia pale fawn with a white streak through them below the apex. Exp. al. 5-5 m m. Hind wings very pale greyish ; cilia pale fawn. Abdomen pale fawn-ochreous. Legs white, spotted with pale fawn. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-HAYTI (Port-au-Prince, 23 V.-Gudmann) ; ST. THOMAS, 20 III. (Hedemann). Two specimens. The smooth crown separates this species from Lithocolletis, to which genus it might be referred at first sight. 241. GRACILARIA NESITIS, sp. n. Antennce as long as the fore wings; yellowish white, faintly barred above with brown. Pcdpi slightly recurved; white, the end of the second joint and a band above the middle of the third joint brown. Head yellowish white. Thorax white, mixed with brown. Fore wings umber-brown, with a nearly straight yellowish-white central fascia, before which are two slightly oblique ill-defined transverse streaks, and beyond it a well-defined costal spot and a few scales of the same colour along the dorsum ; cilia pale brownish, at the apex white. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings brownish grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen pale cinereous. Legs white, with brown tarsal annulations. Type, 2 Mus. Gudmann. Hah. West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 18-21 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Two specimens. |