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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 165 lated with brownish fuscous. Palpi slender, depressed, whitish ; the second joint with some brownish hairs beneath its apex. Head rough; white. Thorax bronzy fuscous. Fore wings and cilia bronzy fuscous : a rather broad cream-white central fascia tinged with brownish ochreous is slightly attenuated toward the costa, from which it is separated by a narrow line of the dark groundcolour ; beyond the fascia is a small patch of brownish-ochreous scales at the end of the cell, with a few others at the extreme apex. Exp. al. 6*5 m m . Hind icings and cilia brownish. Abdomen brownish. Legs whitish ochreous, with some brownish hairs on the tibiae. Tgpe, 3 Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 12 IV. (Hedemann). Unique. 100. TINEOLA, HS. 272. TINEOLA UTERELLA, sp. n. Antennce smoky faw^n-colour. Palpi: maxillaries not folded : labials short, porrect; smoky fawn. Head smoky fawn-colour, face brownish ochreous. Thorax smoky fawn. Fore wings yellowish fawn, with minute fuscous speckling : a purplish fuscous blotch on the costa near the base is partly connected with a spot of the same colour lying obliquely beneath it on the fold; beyond this are two spots before the middle of the wing, the smaller on the fold, the larger on the disc slightly beyond and above the lower one; a larger spot of the same colour lies at the end of the cell, and there are a few dark scales at the base of the dorsum; (these markings although showing a purplish gloss in a strong light appear blackish under the lens); cilia fawn-grey. Exp. al. 3 10- 2 15 m m . Hind wings pale grey, with a strong aeneous tinge below the cell; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs yellowish grey, tarsi with obscure darker blotches. Type, 3 2 Mus. Wlsm. Hah. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 14-24 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann) : three specimens. BRAZIL-Para (Amazons), 17 IX.- 14 XII. (Schulz) : a long series. Bred by Messrs. Schulz, Gudmann, and Baron von Hedemann. Mr. Gudmann notes it as found " on trunks," while Mr. Schulz writes :-" The Amazonian clothes moth, their larva and pupa-cases called ' tracas ' in Portuguese. These tracas are very frequent in the houses in Pani, keeping on the walls of the rooms and are very injurious to clothes." All three observers send with this species a flattened bladder-shaped case composed of silk and grains of sand, wide in the middle, narrowed towards each extremity and open at both ends. (Ecia maculata, Wlsm., a species which although belonging to a different family is almost inseparable from uterella in colour and markings, is found likewise in St. Thomas and at Para at the same time as uterella. Baron von Hedemann writes of (Ecia maculata, " very common on the inner wralls of nearly |
