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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 161 at the end of the cell, with three or four minute black dots the outer half of the dorsum, and one near the upper angle of the cell; cilia pale brownish grey, with a smoky-brown line running through them and continued around the apex. Exp. cd. 8-10 mm. Hind wings pale grey ; cilia with a slight brownish tinge. Abdomen pale yellowish brown. Legs hairy ; yellowish white, the tarsi faintly annulated. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 5 V. (Hedemann); ST. THOMAS, 8 III.-13 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann) ; ST. VINCENT (windward side, H. H. Smith). Nine specimens. 258. TINEA TISCHERIELLA, sp. n. Antennce yellowish, annulated with olive-brown. Pcdpi drooping; yellowish. Head and thorax pale yellow. Fore wings and cilia shining pale yellow, with a broad olive-brown band (occupying more than the costal half of the wing) extending from the base nearly to the apex, with two very slight projections, one before and one beyond the middle, encroaching upon the pale dorsal space. Exp. cd. 6 mm. Hind wings very pale grey; cilia with a faint aeneous gloss. Abdomen pale shining ochreous. Legs hairy above ; whitish. Exp. al. 6 mm. Type, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-HAYTI (Port-au-Prince, 22 V.-Gudmann); ST. THOMAS, 11 IV. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 259. TINEA SOLENOBIELLA, sp. n. Antennce bone-whitish. Palpi very short, slender, drooping; bone-white. Head and face rough ; bone-whitish. Thorax bone-whitish, with a slight brownish tinge. Fore wings whitish, sparsely suffused with pale greyish brown, which colour also forms some costal speckling as far as the middle and some ill-defined small costal spots beyond the middle; a spot lies on the disc a little before the middle and there is more speckling of the same colour towards the apex and on the outer half of the dorsum ; a waved line of brownish-fuscous atoms runs through the bone-white cilia. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings shining whitish grey ; cilia bone-grey. Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish ; hind tibia? with long slender hairs above. Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 21IV. (Gudmann); ST.THOMAS, 7-17 III. (Gudmann). Four specimens. A very inconspicuous and faintly-marked species of the group allied to cloacella, H w. 260. TINEA FRAGILELLA, sp. n. Antennce yellowish white. Palpi very slender, drooping, naked ; white. Head and thorax white. Fore wings white, neatly speckled throughout with fuscous, tending to black around the extreme PBOC ZOOL. Soc-1897, No. XI. 11 |