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Show 162 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [ Jan. 19, apex, where it forms a semicircular shade, and on a spot before margin, preceding the semicircle ; a pair of costal spots lie before and beyond the middle, the second equidistant between the first and the apex; cilia above the apex white, at the apex shaded with greyish ochreous, a slender shade-line running through them towards the tornus, where also they become whitish. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings very pale grey ; cilia whitish grey. Abdomen white. Legs white, hind tarsal joints delicately spotted with fuscous. Type, 3 Mus. Wlsm. Hab. West Indies-HAYTI (Port-au-Prince, 24 V . - Gudmann). Three specimens. 261. TINEA MINUTELLA, F. Alucita minutella, F. Ent, Svst. III. (2) 344, No. 51 (1794) \ Tinea minutella, F. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 500. No. 110 (1798)2. Phalcena (Alucita) minutella, Turtou, Syst. Nat, III. 383 (1806) 3. " minutella, 51. A. alis albidis: fasciis tribus fuscis. Statura parva praecedentium. Ala? albidae, fasciis tribus fuscis, prima baseos, tertia apicis. "Habitat in Americae Insulis, Dom. v. Rohr."1. = West Indies1"3. 262. TINEA PLUMELLA, Wlsm. Tinea plumella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 508-9, 544 (1892)\ Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 21 IV.-7 V. (Hedemann); ST. T H O M A S , 10-26 IV. (Gudmann); ST. VINCENT1. Bred by Mr. Gudmann, who fouud the larvae very common on walls and stone fences. 263. TINEA TETRAONELLA, sp. n. Antennce minutely annulated with brownish fuscous and whitish ochreous ; basal joint whitish ochreous. Pcdpi very short, drooping ; whitish, a minute fuscous riug round the apical joint. Head brownish fuscous, mixed with whitish ochreous ; face whitish ochreous. Thorax brownish fuscous, sprinkled and slightly mottled with whitish ochreous. Fore wings brownish fuscous, sprinkled and slightly mottled with whitish ochreous; the only noticeable spot of this colour being before the middle of the dorsum, this and other smaller ones beyond it are minutely speckled with fuscous scales ; cilia pale whitish ochreous with a dark parting line running through them. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings blue-grey; cilia tawny fuscous. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs brownish fuscous, hind tarsal joints banded with white. Tgpe, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. CROIX, 28 IV. (Hedemann); ST. THOMAS, 12-28 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Four specimens. " Larva? on walls and stone fences, not so common as plumella, Wlsm., and very difficult to breed" (Gudmann). |