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Show 1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 173 reddish-brown: $ pale cinereous throughout, more or less speckled with greyish fuscous, the markings confined to three greyish-fuscous spots, oue about the middle of the cell, another at the end of the cell, and the triangular one (as in the male) coming halfway between them on the lower edge of the cell, its apex crossing the fold. Exp. al. 3 20 mm.; $ 23 mm. Hind wings greyish fuscous; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish ochreous. Tgpe, 3 $ Mus. Hedemann. Hab. West Indies-ST. T H O M A S , 20 III.-10 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. This species is very variable in colour in both sexes, and the markings in some varieties are obliterated; but the white spots appear to be constant in the male. 291. ANAPHORA ARCASALIS, Wkr. Palthis-? arcasalis, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XVI. 153-4 (1858) Anaphora arcasalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515, 545 (1892)Hab. West Indies-SAN D O M I N G O 12. 292. ANAPHORA MIMASALIS, Wkr. Palthis-? mimasalis, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XVI. 154 (1858)'. Anaphora mimasalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515, 545 (1892)2. Hab. West Indies-SAN DOMINGO1 , 2. 293. ANAPHORA NOCTUINA, Wlsm. Anaphora noctuina, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515-6, 545, Pl. XLI. 14 (1892) \ Hab. West Indies-CUBA1. 115. ACROLOPHUS, Poey. 294. ACROLOPHUS VITELLUS, Poey. Acrolophus vitellus, Poey, Cent. Lp. Cuba, Pl. (XX.) (1833)' Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887, 1482: Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 512, 544, Pl. XLI. 11 (1892)s. Hab. West Indies-CUBA 1_3; (? PORTORICO 3). 295. ACROLOPHUS ? REFLEXUS, F. Bomhyxreflexa,F. Ent. Syst. III. (1) 448. No. 128 (1793)l. Phalcena (Bombyx) reflexa, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 212 (1806) \ " reflexa. 128. B. alis deflexis cinereo fuscoque variis, palpis reflexis longitudine thoracis. " Minuta. Antennae simplices, cinereae. Palpi compressi, hirsuti, inter antennas reflexi, ferruginei usque ad alas pertingunt. Alae anticae cinereae lunula magna, media liturisque fuscis. Postica? cinerea?. "Habitat in America? meridionalis, Dr. Pflug."1 = West Indies1,2 (probably St. Thomas or St. Croix). |