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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 159 VIII. TINEINM. 99. TINEA, L. 252. T I N E A BREVISTRIGATA. Antennce dirty whitish. Palpi whitish, with a fuscous band around the base of the apical joint; second joint with some long separate whitish hairs beneath. Head and thorax hoary greyish. Fore wings hoary whitish, the costa faintly mottled with greyish ochreous, the dorsal half of the wing shaded and speckled with grey : four short dark brownish-fuscous streaks accompanied by a few pale ochreous scales-the first very short, lying on the fold at one-fourth from the base ; the second also short, on the cell a little before the middle of the wing; the third larger and more conspicuous, at the end of the fold, reaching the base of the dorsal cilia ; the fourth more diffused, running from the end of the cell to the middle of the termen ; a slight fuscous shade runs along the base of the hoary-grey cilia. Exp. al. 9-12 m m . Hind wings shining pale greyish ; cilia the same. Abdomen cinereous. Legs hoary whitish. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies- ST. CROIX, 5-6 V. ( Gudmann, Hedemann) ; ST. T H O M A S , 2 III.-15 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Six specimens. 253. TINEA REDUPLICATA, sp. n. Antennce bone-white. Palpi externally black nearly to the end of the second joint; apical joint short, also banded with black externally. Head hoary. Thorax bone-white. Fore wings slightly shining, bone-white, speckled with small groups of black and purplish-fuscous scales ; a short greyish-fuscous streak along the base of the costa is followed by an irregular series of marginal spots of different sizes to the commencement of the costal cilia; along the fold, before and beyond its middle, are three minute spots of black scales, similar spots extending in a series of three or four along the outer half of the cell, the outer one being opposite to the termen of the cell, others lying on the extreme margins below and above, but a little beyond it; a line of greyish-fuscous scales along the base of tbe bone-white cilia. Exp. al. 12-14 m m. Hind wings shining greyish, with a slight aeneous tinge; cilia corresponding to this colour along their base, but shining whitish on their outer half. Abdomen pale brassy-brown, with silvery transverse lines. Legs bone-white, shaded with brownish grey. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 17-31 III. (Gudmann). Two specimens. 254. T I N E A DILUTICORNIS, sp. n. Antennce yellowish white. Palpi porrect, second joint slightly hairy beneath, apical joint somewhat obtuse, not reaching beyond the head ; white, with a fuscous streak on the outer side of the second joint. Head hoary whitish. Thorax whitish, shaded with |