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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 155 Labial palpi slender, short, projecting; second joint sparsely hairy beneath, apical joint as long as the second. Maxillary palpi and haustellum obsolete. Head rough above, face smooth. Thorax smooth. Fore wings lanceolate, somewhat widened in the middle, apex depressed, slightly uncate, subacute. Neuration : 9 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, enclosing the apex, 3, 5, and 10 absent. Hind wings (under 1) lanceolate, acute, costal margin suddenly depressed from the middle, cilia 11. Neuration : 7 veins ; 4 absent (coincident with 5) ; 6 and 7 parallel. Legs : posterior tibia? clothed with long fine hairs. Allied to Cedestls, Z., but differing in tbe absence of the haustellum. 244. LEUCOPHASMA PHANTASMELLA, sp. n. Antennce shining white. Palpi, head, and face white. Thorax white with a golden-yellow tinge. Fore wings, white with a golden-yellow suffusion, more apparent on the middle and towards the apical portion of the wing; a small fuscous dot lies at the extreme apex surrounded by golden yellow; cilia white with a golden-yellow sheen. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind wings greyish white, cilia with a yellowish tinge. Abdomen shining whitish ochreous. Legs white; hind tibiae clothed with long white hairs above. Tgpe, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-GRENADA (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., windward side, 13 IV.-H. II. Smith). Unique. 97. ARGYRESTHIA, Hb. 245. ARGYRESTHIA PERCUSSELLA, Z. (?). Arggresthla pereussella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 246-7 (1877)1. Hab. COLOMBIA-Bogota, m. III.1 [? West Indies-ST. THOMAS, 6-10 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann).'] Two specimens from St. Thomas are probably small varieties of this species, but they are not in sufficiently good condition to determine with certainty. VII. ERECHTHIANJE. 98. EREUNETIS, Meyr. 246. EREUNETIS MINUSCULA, sp. n. ( = Nolckenla minuscula, Z. MS.) Antennce rather stout, enlarged at the base, simple in the 3; creamy-white. Palpi projecting more than the length of the head beyond it, brush-like beneath ; creamy-white. Head rough ; cream-coloured. Thorax cream-coloured. Fore wings cream-coloured, more or less shaded and speckled with umber-brown, this shading being concentrated (and therefore more conspicuous) from the |
