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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 157 " In repose the moth holds the end of the fore wings curved upwards " (Hedemann). This obscure species, which is allied to minuscula, can be at once separated by the brownish blotches on the antenna?. 248. EREUNETIS AEOLELLA, sp. n. Antennce longer than the fore wings, slender; pale cinereous. Palpi slender, somewhat dependent; second joint longer than the apical, slightly clothed beneath; dirty whitish. Head rough-haired; wiutish cinereous. Thorax whitish cinereous. Fore wings with the costa slightly arched, apex moderately acute ; pale brownish fawn-colour, longitudinally streaked throughout with whitish-cinereous lines running from the base to the termen-one above the cell, two along it, and one along the fold ; the costa also whitish cinereous ; a few black scale-points around the termen at the base of the cilia and one a little beyond the middle of the fold; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 8 m m . Hind wings and cilia dull greyish. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish cinereous ; hind tibiae with slender greyish hairs above. Type, 3 2 M u s - Wlsm. ' Hah. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 7 I1I.-12 IV. (Hedemann). Three specimens. 249. EREUNETIS FRONTELLA, sp. n. Antennce white, faintly annulated with fawn-brown. Head with a long pointed frontal tuft reaching more than the length of the head beyond it; white. Labial palpi slender, the second joint sparsely clothed at its apex ; white. Thorax whitish, shaded with fawn-brown. Fore wings whitish, with a broad longitudinal streak of fawn-brown, sprinkled with black scales, extending from the base to the apex, its width encroaching on the dorsal, but not on the costal, half of the wing; a narrower and slightly paler line follow-s the dorsum throughout; a slender black streak or spot on tbe pale interspace at one-third from the base ; the costal half of the wing is very obliquely striated with pale fawn-brown-the first streak arising at the base, the second before the middle, a third somewhat darker beyond the middle, and a fourth following the margin to the apex, where there is an elongate black spot; cilia whitish, with a slender fawn-brown line running through their base, defining very clearly the acuminate apex, a rather broader shade of the same colour around their outer extremities (the longer cilia on the dorsal margin are not thus marked). Exp. al. 9- 10 m m . Hind wings very pale greyish, with pale brownish-ochreous cilia. Abdomen shining brownish ochreous. Legs with long slender hairs above and beneath the tibia?; yellowish white, the tarsi faintly annulated. Type, 3 $ Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 13 III.-7 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Eight specimens. |