54 lOBD WALSINGHAM ON [JaU. 19, 
4. Revision of the West-Indian Micro- Lepidoptera, witli 
Descriptions of new Species. By the Rt. Hon. Lord 
Walsixgham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 
[Received November b, 1896.] 
About two years ago I received a communication from Baron 
W. von Hedemann asking me to examine and determine a col- 
lection of Micro-Lepidoptera which be had made in the Danish 
West Indies. Although at first very unwilling to undertake the 
task, anticipating, not without reason, that there would be a large 
amount of new material, and that it would involve a very diffi- 
cult study of the synonymy of described species aud of general 
classification, I felt that such a study must necessarily be very 
instructive, aud that the opportunity should not be lost to enlarge 
my limited acquaintance with the West-Indian fauna. Moreover, 
as the Danish Islands lie to the north of those which supplied 
the material for my previous paper [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
pp. 492-549 (1892)], they promised to afford some connecting 
links with the rich fauna of Xorth America, already somewhat 
known to me. As to the instruction to be derived, and as to the 
difficulty of the work undertaken, my calculations were not at 
fault ; moreover, the rediscovery of Clemens's genus Cyclo^jlasis, 
with some other decidedly Xorth-American forms, has been of 
special interest in connexion with the subject of distribution. 
The amount of material to be dealt with was largely increased by 
the reception of a further collection from the same islands made 
by Mr. Y. Gudmann. These, together with the Micros collected 
by Mr. H. H. Smith in Grenada (from the Godman aud Salvin 
collection), and others received from Dr. Eendall, Mr. T. D. A. 
Cockerell, Mr. W. Schaus, Mr. T. W. I>ich, and the late 
Monsieur E. Eagonot, form the materials of this paper. It is in 
fact a second edition of the former one, bringing the West-Indian 
catalogue of Micro-Lepidoptera up to date, on the lines of the new 
system of classification put forward by Mr. E. Meyrick in his* 
' Handbook of British Lepidoptera,' which marks an epoch in the 
study of these small and often obscure forms. 
When the paper was commenced I was working upon the 
old hnes, with such modifications oulj' as had become obviously 
necessary as the general study of the subject has advanced ; but 
the pubhcation of Mr. Mevrick's book supplied a want, and his 
system seemed to be so near at least to that which I was abeady 
working up to by an independent course of study and reasoning, 
that no effort was required to induce me to accept in the main 
his sequence of the different famihes aud genera ; this has been 
adopted so far as possible, with the one notable exception of the 
position and value of the Tortricidce, which cannot, in my opinion, 
be rightly separated from the Tineina, and should take a place 
1897.] WEST-lNUIAlf MICRO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 55 
rather in the middle than at either end of the series of famihes 
which form this group. 
The adoption of Mr. Meyrick's system, of course, involved 
great changes in generic nomenclature, for which he had given no 
reasons. In some cases where his alterations have been accepted, 
the reasons for such acceptance are here set forth : in all cases 
where I ha\e been unable to accept his generic names I have 
fully discussed and explained how the names here adopted have 
been arrived at. For any further explanation on this point, the 
reader may now refer to the code of rules compiled by Mr. Diirrant 
and myself, which has lately been published by Messrs. Longmans 
under the title ' Eules for regulating Xomenclatiu'e with a view 
to secure a strict application of the Law of Priority in Entomo- 
logical Work.' 
In my previous paper 132 species were enumerated as occurring 
in the West Indies : of these 10 were simply mentioned as " sp." ; 
these are now deducted, as are also Scoptonoma tipuloides, Wlsm. 
(now regarded as belonging to the Pyralidina) ; PterojjJiorus fispiln- 
dactylus, Wkr. (now regarded as a worn specimen of P. aijraphn- 
dactyluSjWkr.) ; Ccenogenes pusilla (Z.), Wlsm. (wrongly identitied, 
and described in the following pages as Hypoclojms parvus, sp.n.); 
Psecadia adustella, Z. (= Tatnarrha gelidella,Wkr.) ; Psecadia iiujri- 
cella, Mschl. {:=Ethmia confusella, Wkr.) ; Cosmoptery.v lespedezce, 
Wlsm. (= C'osmopterijx attemiatella, Wkv. : Walker referred this 
species to Gelechia, which must be my excuse for the creation 
of the synonym) ; Cosmopteryx yemmifereUa (Clem. ?), Mschl. 
(recorded with doubt by Sloschler, and here omitted as being 
probably synonymous with attenuatella, Wkr.). These deductions 
reduce my former list to llo species (132 — 10 — 7). To this total 
is now added 34 species already described, and these, together 
with 153 new species, raise the total of the West-Indian Micro- 
Lepidoptera to 302 species (115 + 34 + 153). ]S^ineteen genera 
are characterized as new. 
The species recorded from each of the islands are as follows : — 
Cuba, 23 ; Jamaica, 31 : Haiti (or San Domingo), 50 ; Portorico, 37 ; 
St. Croix, 57; St. Thomas, 114 ; St. Jan, 3; St. Martin, 1; Guade- 
loupe, 1 ; Dominica, 7 ; Martinique, 1 ; St. Lucia, 2 ; St. Vincent, 
43 ; Grenada, 60; Trinidad, 8 ; Curagao, 1. — West Ij^dies, 302. 
Of these species, 27 occur in the United States, 4 in Central 
America, and 28 in South America ; 5 are found also in Europe, 
3 in India and also in other parts of Asia, while one extends to 
Malaysia ; 5 occur in AustraUa, and 4 in Africa. The larvae of 
49 species are known, of which number 34 have been bred in the 
West Indies. 
What is now specially wanted is some knowledge of the Micros 
of the more northern islands stretching towards the coast of 
Florida, as well as from the peninsula of Florida itself. There is 
strong reason to believe that very beautiful and distinct forms of 
these insects are to be found in Cuba, Portorico, and Haiti, and 
also in Florida — such as have been already received include some 
56 LOBD WALSiJfGnAM ON [Jan. 19, 
remarkably fine and distinct, species ; and I trust that the publi- 
cation of this paper may induce collectors to supply material from 
these more northern localities, Avith which we are afc present so 
little acquainted. 
The collections made by von Hedemann and Gudmann are for 
the most part in beautiful condition, the specimens well set and 
mounted, and a large proportion of them bred. Full data have 
been given by which the life-history of each bred species can be 
followed, and this information has added much to the value of the 
specimens ; unfortunately, the note-books in which descriptions of 
the different larvae had been written were lost. 
I must express my indebtedness to my two Danish correspondents 
for their kindness in allowing me to keep a large number of dupli- 
cates, which will eventually tind their way to the British Museum 
with the remainder of my collections ; and Baron von Hedemann 
has also been kind enough to examine for me such types of 
Fabricius's West-Indiau species as are extant in the Copenhagen 
Museum. I must also return my thanks to my other corre- 
spondents whose names are mentioned above, especially to Messrs. 
Godman and Salvin for placing much valuable material in my 
hands. 
I. PYRALIDINA. 
I. PTEEOPHOEID^. 
1. Teichoptiius, "Wlsm. 
1. Tkichoptilus centetes, Meyr. 
Trichoptilus centetes, Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. ]886, lfi-17': 
1887, 266'; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 494-5, 542 (1892) ^ 
[? =Pteropliorus oxyductylus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 
944 (1864). Acijjtilia oxydactt/la, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1885, 
885 (1886). Ptevophorus oxydachjlus, Moore, Lp. Ceyl. III. 528-9, 
PL 209. 16 (1887) ; Swinh. & Cotes, Cat. Moths Ind. 669. No. 45J9 
(1889). Trichoptilus oxijdactylus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1896, 
277 (1896). -Ceylon ; India, IX., XII. ; Arabia, II.-IIL, IX., 
XIL] 
Uah. New Guinea, XI.^ Queensland ^ West Indies '—St. 
Ceoix, 22 IV.-18 V. {Gudmann, Hedemann, Pontoppidan) ; St. 
Thomas, 13 III.-25 III. {Gudmann, Hedemann); St. Vincent'. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Croix, but the food-plant has 
not been identified. 
2. Sphenaeches, Meyr. 
2. Sphenaeches caffee, Z. 
= ANisoj)ACTTLm, Wkr. " ; n. syn. =diffusalis, Wkr. ; 
= WALKEEI, Wlsm. '° ; = SYNOPHRYS, Mcyr. " 
Pterophorus coffer, Z. Hndl. Kngl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. 1852, 118 '. 
Oxypiilus coffer, Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 348-9 (1852)-; Wkr. Cat. Lp. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAJf MICEO-LEPIBOPTERA. 57 
Ins. B. M. XXX. 934 (1864) \ Oxyptilus anisodactylus, Wkr. Cat. 
Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 9-34-5 (1 864) \ Pteropliorus cUffusalis, Wkr. 
Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 945 (1864) '. Oxijijtilus caffer, Wlsm. 
Tr. Ent. «oc. Lond. 1881, 279'. Oxyptilus waWm, Wlsm. Tr. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 279-80 '. Sjjlienarches sijnojjJinjs, Meyr. Tr. 
Eat. iSoc. Lond. 1886, 17-8 ^. Oxij2)tilus anisodactylus, Moore, Lp. 
CeyL III. 528 (1887) ». SpUnarches caffer, Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1887, 268 '". Oxyptilus anisodactylus, S\viuh. & Cotes, Cat. 
Moths Ind. 668. No. 4542 (1889) ". Splienarches caffer. Cotes, 
Ind. Mus. Notes, II. 20, figg. (1891) '^ ; Wlsm. Ind. Mus. Notes, 
IL 20-1 (1891)'=*; Cotes, Ind. Mus. Notes, II. 163 (1893) ». 
Larva. " Calabash " (Gambia) *' ; in pods of Bolichos lahlah 
(India) ^^-". 
Hah. S.A^BICA—CafErarial-^'^^ Natal, XI.-XTI.''»3 E. Africa 'I 
W. Africa — Gambia '^ Asia — Japan ", Ceylon ■'• ^-H' "^ India '--", 
Burma '^. Australasia — New (South Wales, 11.^°, Queensland 
(Moreton Bay) % New Hebrides ^ Tonga Ids.*" West Indies — St. 
Thomas, 20 III. (Gudmann); Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., wind- 
ward side, 15-20 IV.— iT. B. Smith). 
Oxyptilus periscelidactylus, Eitch, from the United States, 
belongs to the genus Sphenarches, and is at least very closely allied 
to caffer, Z. 
3. Platyptilia, Hb. 
3. PlATTPTILIA PrSILLIDACTTLA, Wkr. 
= TECNIDIO]V, Z.* 
Oxyptilus pusillidactylus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 933 
(1864) \ Platyptilia tecnidion, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 
468-9, PI. VI. 162 (1877) ^ Platyptilia pusillidactyla, Wlsm. 
Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 495, 542 (1892) ^ Amblyptilla pusilli- 
dactyla, Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 8 (1896) \ 
Hab. West Indies— Jamaica '■=*; St. Croix,* 22 IV. {Oud- 
mann) ; St. Thomas, II.^'^'* ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., and La 
Eorce Estate, 350 ft., windward side, 5 IV.-5 V. — H. H. Smith). 
4. Platyptilia cosmodacttla, Hb. 
{?:=ACANTS0DACTYZT7S, Z.^) =DIBEPTALIS, Wkr.^ 
Alucita cosmodactyla, Hb. Samml. Eur. Schm. IX. PI. VII. 35-36 
(1816 ?) \ Amblyptilia cosmodactyla, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 430. 
No. 4183 (1826) ^, &c. [? Pterophorus acanthodactylus, Z. Hand!. 
Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. 1852, 117 ^] Oxyptilus direptalis, Wkr. 
Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 934 (1864) \ Amblyptilia cosmodact^jla, 
Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 342, No. 3131(1871)°. Ambliptilus cosmodactylus, 
Wlsm. Pter. Cal. & Or. 23-5, PL II. 2-4 (1880) ' : Tr. Eut. Soc. 
Lond. 1881, 277-8 (1881) ''. Platyptilia cosmodactyla, Meyr. 
Tr. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1890, 486 (1890) ". 
Hab. Europe '■ ^' "■ * [larva, Aquilegia vulgaris. Geranium jjratense, 
Salvia ylutinosa]. S. Africa — Transvaal '\ Cape Colony *, Natal, 
58 LORD wAxsiNGHAM OS [Jan. 19, 
VII.-VIII., XI.'' United States— Culiforuia ^ Oregon " (6. lY. 
— e. VIII.; larva Orihocarpus sp., VI.) ^ West Indies — Jamaica 
(Cinchona, 5000 ft., IX., Fawcett). 
I am indebted to Mr. Cockerell for the specimen collected bv 
Mr. Fawcett. There is another specimen in the British Museum, 
labelled " Jamaica (Cinchona), 90.65, 6.90, W. Fawcett." 
4. OcHTROTiCA, Wlsm. 
5. OCHYEOTICA FASCIATA, Wlsm. 
Ochyrotica /t(sci«to, Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXVII. 218 (1891) ' : 
Nov. Lp. I. 75-6, PL XII. 2 (1892) \ 
Hah. CENTEAi America '^ West Indies — Grenada (Bal- 
thazar, 250 ft., windward side, 20 TV.—H. H. Smith). Brazil ' -. 
5. Stenoptilia, Hb. 
=: MiMjESEOPTILUS, Wlgm. 
6. Stenoptilia (?) pumilio, Z. 
= * GiLViBOESis, Hdm. partim. (nee Z.). 
Minieseoptilus pumilio, Z. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 324 
(1873) \ ^'<«^OJ»J^^Z^a ? ^jitwii/io, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
495, 542 (1892) ^ Mimceseoptilus gilvidorsis, Hdm. Stett. Ent. 
Ztg. LVII. 8-9 (1896) \ 
Hah. United States- — Texas \ West Indies Jamaica 
(Monteague, 1100 ft., XL, Eendall) ■ St. Croix,' 28 IV. (Hede- 
mann), V. ' ; St. Vincent - ; Grenada (windward side — Bal- 
thazar, 250 ft., La Force Estate, 350 ft., 5 IV.-5 V.— ^. H. Smith). 
Heer Snellen's opinion on the probable synonymy of gilvidorsis, 
quoted by von Uedemann (I.e. No. 3), is quite justified, for I had 
already examined the two types side by side, and had made a note 
that gilvidorsis, Z., must sink as a synonym of tenuis, F. & R. 
Baron von Hedeniann has sent me the three specimens which 
were determined for him by Snellen : two are montis-christi, Wlsm., 
and the third is pumilio ; there is at present no evidence that 
gilvidorsis occurs in the West Indies. 
[ Stenoptilia tenuis, F. & R. 
n. syn. = 6ILVID0SSIS, Z. 
Mvme.seo2nilus tenuis, F. & E. Reise Nov., Lep. PI. CXL. 50 (1875) '. Mime- 
su^tiliis gilvidorsis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 471-2, PI. VI. 164 (1877)'^. 
Hab. Colombia— Bogota ' ■ M2 II.-14 III.^] 
6. Pterophorus, Geoffr. 
Type, Phalcena (Alucita) monodactyla, L. 
Pterophords, Geoffr. Hist. Ins. Par. II. 24-5, 90-3 ( 1 762) ; 
Wlgm. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. (7) 20 (1859); Wlsm. & Drut. Eut. 
Mo. Mag. XXXIII. 41-2 (1897). 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPT'ERA. 59 
t OiD^MATOFSonus, Wlgrii. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. (7) 19 (1859). 
\_X(Edematopsobus, Wlgrn. Bib. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. 
85 (1875).] 
= ^Leioptilus, WJgrn. Vet.-Ak. Handl. III. (7) 21 (1859). 
= *Alucita (L.), Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, 487. 
The type of Aluciia, L., Wiis fixed as pentadactyla, L., by Poda, 
Ins. Mus. Grsec. p, 94 (1761), and Lamarck, Syst. An. sans Vert. 
288 (1801), cited the same species as the type of Pterophorus, 
Geoff r. ; hut this action was inadmissible, pentadactyla having 
already been constituted the type of Alucita. Latreille, Prec. 
Gen. Ins. 148 (1796), described the genus Orneodes, omitting to 
cite the type ; subsequently, however, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. III. 
418 (1802) : XIV. 258 (1805), this omission was remedied, hexa- 
dactyla, L., being cited as the type. By this action and Poda's 
the genus Pterophonis became monotypical with the type Alucita 
monodactyla, L. In this sense it was used by Wallengren, but 
Meyrick, Tr. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1890, 487, wrongly employed 
Pterojihorus {ov pentadactyla, and Alacita for inouodactyla. 
7. Pteeophorus ixquinatus, Z. 
n. syn. —ambsosi^, Mrt. 
CEdematophorus inquinatus, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXII L 
325 (1873) \ (Edematophonis ambrosia', Mrt. Am. Ent. III. 2,Hj 
(1880) ^. (Edematophorus inquinatus, Cqllt. Pap. I. 61-2 (1882)'; 
Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 9 (1896) \ 
Larva. Ambrosia urtemisicefolia ^'^ VII. ^ excl. VIII." 
Hab. United States — Texas, 23 VII.\ Missouri ^ West 
Indies — Hatti (Cap Haiti, 19 VI. — Oudmann) ; St. Thomas, 7 IV.' 
8. Pteeophorus montis-cheisti, sp. n. 
= Mimaseoptilus gilvidorsis, Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 8-9 
(1896), partim. 
(Antenme broken.) Palpi projecting scarcely beyond the head ; 
pale cinereous. Head slightly tufted over the face ; hoary grey. 
Thorax hoary greyish, whitish posteriorly. Fore luings hoary 
grey, sparsely scattered vrith very minute fuscous speckling, which 
is also noticeable along the base of the hoary-grey cilia, especially 
on the dorsum. Exp. al. 17 mm. Hind luings shining hoary grey, 
with a bronzy reflection on their cilia. Abdomen [in the two 
specimens before me greasy and discoloured, but obvioasly paler 
than the wing-colour, as indicated also by the very pale patuh on 
the posterior portion of the thorax at the base]. Hind legs with 
the spurs very long and slender; pale cinereous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. ; $ Mas. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies— San Domingo (Monte Christi, 19 V. 
1894 ; two specimens, " cJ & $ taken in copula," Gudmann) ; 
St. Croix : 2-5 V. {Hedemann, two specimens) ; Grenada (Bal- 
thazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 IV., H.H.Smith; one specimen). 
60 . LOKO WALSINGIIAM ON [Jail. 19, 
9. PTEHOPHonrs ossipelms, sp. n. 
Antennm bone -grey. Pal^n very short, projecting, slender; 
bone-white. Head and thorax bone-grey. Fore untujs of almost 
even M'idrh througliout ; costa straight, second lobe scarcely 
widened at its middle ; uniformly bone-grey, the extreme costa 
slightly paler througliout ; cilia bone-grey. Exp. al. 16 mm. 
Hind wini/s bone-grey with a slightly bluer tinge ; cilia bone-grey. 
Abdomen bone-grey. Lfc/s white, unspotted. 
Ty2i>-', (? Mus. Grudmann. 
Bab. West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 15 V. : one 
specimen, Gudmann). 
10. Pterophoutjs parvus, Wl?m. 
Lioptilus ? parvus, Wlsm. Pter. Cal. & Or. 55-7, PL III. 1^ 
(1880) "'. 
Hub. United States — California e. VII.^ West Indies — 
txEENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15 111.-60 IV. — 
H. H. Smith). 
11. Pterophorus thom^, Z. 
Leioptilus tlwmce, Z. Hor. Soc. But. Eoss. XIII. 480-1, PL VI. 
170 (1877) \ Aluclta thoma', Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 495, 
542 (1892) -. Leioptilus thomce, Hdin. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 9 
(1896) \ 
Bab. West Indies— Hayti (Port-au-Prince, Cap Haiti, 19-24 V.: 
Gvihnann); St. Thomas, XII.^'^ 
12. Pterophortjs pr.eustus, Mschl. 
Fterophorus proemtus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 346, 354 
(1890) \ Alucita prceustus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 496, 
542 (1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies — Poetorico^-. 
Judging from the description this is probably the same as 
thomce., 7t. 
13. Pterophortjs basalis, Mschl. 
CEdematophorus basalis, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 345-6, 
354 (1890) \ Alucita basalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 495, 
542(1892)-. 
Bab. West Indies— PoRTORico^'^ 
14. Pterophortjs paleaceus, Z. 
Leioptilus paleaceus, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. AVien, XXIII. 326-7 
(1873) '. Pterophorus paleaceus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 
346, 354 (1890)-. Alucita paleaceus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 
1891, 495, 542 (1892) ^ 
Bab. United States — Ohio ^' % Texas ' • ^ West Indies — Porto- 
1897.] WEST-IXDIAJf MIGRO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 61 
15. Pterophoeus bipunctatus, Mschl. 
=:*MiCRODACTYLUs, Hdm. (nec Hb.). 
Pterophorus Upunrtatm, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 346, 
354 (1890) \ Alucita hipumtatus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc Lond. 1891, 
496, 542 (1892) ^ Leioptilus microdactylus, Hdm. Stett. Ent. 
Ztg. LVII. 9(1896)^ 
Hab. United States — Elorida (Morrison, Mns. Wlsm.). West 
Indies — Portoeico ' ■ - ; St. Croix, 28 IV. (Gudmaim) ; St. 
Thomas, 20 III. (Gudmann), IV.^ ; GtRENADa (Balthazar, 250 ft., 
windward side, 5-27 IV. — H. H. Smith). 
I am unable to agree with Heer Snellen, as quoted by Baron 
von Hedemann {I. c. No. 3), that the West-Indian species allied 
to microdactylus, Hb., is actually our common European insect. 
Baron von Hedemann has sent me the specimen determined for him 
by Snellen, and I must certainly regard it as distinct. A very 
noticeable spot occurs on the lower margin of the anterior lobe of 
the fore wings a little beyond the opposite costal spot, and this is 
not present in microdacti/lus ; moreover, the anterior wiugs appear 
to me to be distinctly narrower in proportion to their length. In 
any case there can be little doubt that it is the bipunctatas of 
Mdschler. 
16. PTBEornoRtrs paeticipattjs, Mschl, 
Pterophorus participatus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Gres. XV. 346, 
354 (1890) \ Alucita participatus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1S91, 
496, 542 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Portoeico ^•-. 
17. Pteeophortjs ageaphodactylus, Wkr. 
n. syn. = AfSFiLODACTYLUs, Wkr. 
Pterophorus agraphodactylus, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. XXX. 
941 (1864) \ Pterophorus aspilodactylus, Wkr, Cat. Lep. Ins. 
B. M. XXX. 941-2 (1864) -^ Butl. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1878, 495 \ 
Lioptilus agrap>hodactyliis, AVlsm. Pter. Cal. & Or. 46-7, PI. III. 6 
(1880) \ Pterophorus agraphodactylus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891 496, 542 (1892)°. Pterophorus aspilodactylus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. 
Soc. Lond. 1891, 496, 542 (1892) ^ 
Hab. United States— Oregon, V.' West Indies— Jamaica"' '• ' ; 
San Domingo''^'". 
I can only regard the type of aspilodactylus as a worn specimen 
of agraphodactylus, and Walker himself suggested that it might be 
only a \'ariety or a faded example of this species. 
II. OENEODID^. 
7. Oeneodes, Ltr. 
= * Alucita, Z., auct. 
18. -Oeneodes eudactyla, E. & E. 
Alucita (Pcelia ?) eudactyla, E. & E. Eeise Nov., Lep. PL CXL. 
62 LORD WALSINGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 
fi2 (1875)'; Mschl. Ab. Seack. Nat. Ges. XY. 346, 354 (1890)=. 
Orneodes eudacti^la, Wlsra. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 496, 542 
(1892) \ 
Hah. Colombia''; Brazil'*. West Indies— Portorico''. 
II. TINEINA. 
I. ^GERIAD^. 
Although I quite agree with Mr. Meyrick as to the location of 
this faoiily, I am not at present sufficiently acquainted with its 
hteratureto attempt to give a complete list of the West-Indian 
species. There are probably many other species known beside 
the following: — 
8. Sesia, F. 
19. Sesia cubaka, HS. 
Sesia cubam, HS. O.B., Z.M. Ver. Eegensb. (sep.) 28 (1865) '. 
Hab. West Indies— Cuba '. 
II. GELECHIAD^. 
9. Brachmia, Hb. 
= -fBEACLUNIA, Stph. (laps. cal.). 
= § Clabobes, Hein. 
= EuDODACLES, Snell. 
Brachmia, Meyr. (nee Stgr. Cat.). 
20. Brachmia? eultidella, sp. n. 
Antennce duU ochreous. PaZpi dull ochreous, the second and 
apical joints each with a tawny-reddish shade externally. Head 
and thorax whitish ochreous. Fore wings whitish ochreous, 
variable in the colour and quantity of their shading ; a female in 
good condition (which I select as the type) having a tawny-reddish 
suffusion extending from the base nearly to the termen, around 
which is a row of six elongate fuscous spots, the pale ground- 
colour appearing also in a narrow streak along the base of the 
fold and in a streak along the discal cell, in which are two fuscous 
blotches, the larger before, the smaller one beyond the middle ; 
cilia whitish ochreous, with a slight vinous gloss, especially around 
their tips. (In other specimens the dorsal half of the wing is 
almost entirely whitish ochreous, the reddish suffusion being con- 
fined to the costal and apical portions.) Exp. al. 15 mm. Hind 
ivings pale greyish ; cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen 
yellowish grey. Legs pale ochreous. 
Tj/2:>e, c? $ Mus. Wlsm. 
liab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 9 III.-20 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Six specimens. 
1897.] WEST-IXDIAX illCRO-LBPIDOPTERA.. 63 
"Die Kaupe ist sehr diiun unci schmal, 16-fiissig, iu der Mitte 
am breitesten ; dunkel choeoladebraun, mit zwei Eeihen i'einer 
weissen Puukte aaf jeder Seite des Eiickens, so dass auf jedem 
Segment zwei Punktwarzen sich finden, jede mit einem schwarzen 
Haar verseben. Kept' rund, scbwarzbraan. Das erste Leib- 
segment durchsichtig fleischfarbig im ersteu Drittel, aaE den 
hinteren | mit einem Schild von der Farbe des Kopfes. Bauch, 
Fiisse und After von der Farbe des Eiickens. 
"Eaupe auf den Bliittern der Bromelia pingidn, L., gefunden in 
einem Gespinnst mit eingewobenen Excrementen und Blattresten. 
Das Gespinnst befindet sich in der inneren Hohlung des Blattes, 
dicht an der Blattwurzel. Anscheinend frisst die Eaupe nicht 
die Blatter, sondern nur die Blattreste, die sie in ihr Gespinnst 
festwebt." {Gudmann.) 
I am unable to separate from the types three shghtly smaller 
captured females in which the tawny-reddish suffusion is much 
modified by greyish -fuscous sprinkling, and the pale ochreous 
ground-colour inclines to pale cinereous. 
This species differs from the type of the genus in having veins 
7 and 8 coincident, arising from a common stem with 9 ; but at 
present I am unwilling to create a new genus for its reception. 
10. Aeistotelia, Hb., Meyr. 
This genus has been separated into sections under various 
names, such as Evagora, Clem., Apodia, Hein., Ergatis, Hein. 
The first two names are preoccupied, and Ergatis is a synonym of 
Aristotelia. 
Aristotelia is used in a more extended sense in this paper than 
is accorded to it by Meyrick. At present it seems unnecessary 
to rename the different sections as here given, but this can be 
done at any future time if the subdivisions founded on neuration 
should be regarded as of sufficient value ; when probably some of 
Walker's or Chambers's generic names will be found to apply. 
The species which have veins 3 and 4 of the hind wings connate 
are narrow-winged derivatives of Aristotelia, and are not allied to 
Gelechia. 
§ A. Fore wings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 out of 7. Hind wings, 3 and 4 
connate. ( = § EVAGORA, Clem.) 
21. Aristotelia ankulicoenis, sp. n. 
Antennce pale straw-ochreous, minutely banded above with 
greyish fuscous, a distinct blackish band across the middle of the 
basal joint. Paljyi pale straw-ochreous, with two smoky-black 
spots on the outer side of the second joint and a smoky-black ring 
near the end of the apical joint. Head and thorax pale straw- 
ochreous. Fore wings pale straw-ochreous, with a slight ferruginous 
shade along the middle from one-third to two-thirds, and several 
smoky-black spots and dots : the first at the base of the costa, 
64 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
small and inconspicuous ; at one-third a larger costal spot, with 
one, immediately above the dorsum, straight below it ; at two-thirds 
a larger costal spot, with a very small one straight below it at the 
end oi' the cell, a few smaller ones lying around the apex and 
apical margin ; cilia pale straw-ochreous with a slight \'inous 
gloss. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind irings pale grey ; cilia with a slight 
vinous gloss. Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs whitish ochreous. 
Tt/2ye, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12 1II.-14 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Four specimens. 
22. Aristotelia eeomene, sp. u. 
Antennce stout; whitish ochreous, faintly aunulated towards the 
apex. Palpi stout, second joint almost as long as the apical, 
smooth-scaled ; whitish ochreous, clouded with fuscous externally, 
especially at the base and apex of the second joint, apical joint 
with two black aunulations. Head and thorax pale ochreous. 
Fore wings pale ochreous, somewhat shaded with chestnut>brown 
along the middle ; an elongate black costal spot at the base with a 
smaller one immediately beneath it ; a small triangular costal spot 
before the middle, almost connected with two others placed 
obliquely beneath it, extending backward to the dorsum ; a larger 
triangular costal spot (also black) before the commencement of the 
costal cilia; on the dorsum, beneath and before it, a slender black 
streak lies a little beyond the middle but does not leave the 
margin ; a terminal series of small groups of black scales at the 
base of the greyish-ochreous cilia. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings 
shining, pale grey ; cilia shining, pale ochreous. Ahdomen shining, 
greyish. Posterior legs whitish ochreous, externally smeared with 
fuscous. 
Type, (3 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 20 111. (Gudmann) ; St. Ceoix, 
2 V.-9 VI. (Hedtmann, Pontoppidan). Three specimens. 
Bred at St. Thomas by Mr. Grudmann from larvae feeding on 
Bromelia. pinguin., L. 
This species differs from anmdicomis, Wlsm., in the first dorsal 
spot being nearer to the base than the costal spot above it and in 
the larger size of the outer costal spot, as well as in the darker tone 
of colourino- of the fore wings and in the absence of the annulation 
on the basal joint of the antennje. 
23. Aristotelia ornatipalpella, sp. u. 
Antenmt rather stout, simple ; cinereous with a slight indication 
of dark transverse lines above. Palpi smooth ; olive-grey, with 
three black annulations on the second joint and two on the apical 
joint. Head and thorax dark olive-grey. Fore ivings olive-grey, 
with a slight greenish tinge ; a short black basal patch occupying 
the costal half is followed by a smaller costal patch at one- third, 
with a black dorsal patch a little beyond it; at the upper extremity 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 65 
of the latter is a round black spot on the cell, almost connected 
with it ; another small black costal patch lies at the commencement 
of the costal ciHa and a round black dot beneath it at the end 
of the cell; a few black scales are scattered along the termen 
at the base of the olive-grey cilia. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind iviugs 
shining, grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. 
Legs greyish, with dark patches on the spurs ; hind tibiae somewhat 
hairy above, tarsi faintly spotted. 
Type, <S Mus. Wlsm. 
Bab. West Indies — Gbenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 27 TV.—H. H. Smith). Unique. 
24. Aeistotelia ostariella, sp. n. 
Antennce bone-white, very faintly annulated. Palpi slender, 
smooth, second joint scai'cely thicker than the apical ; bone-white, 
speckled with greyish fuscous. Head and thorax bone-whitish. 
Fore ivings bone-whitish ; a small greyish-fuscous spot at the base 
of the costa is followed by a small triangular costal spot before 
the middle, forming, with two others below it, a narrow transverse 
fascia tending slightly outwards to the dorsum ; halfway between 
this aiul the apex is another greyish-fuscous costal patch with a 
dark fuscous spot below it at the end of the cell ; a few greyish- 
fuscous scales around the termen at the base of the bone-ochreous 
cilia. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind ivings shining, very pale grey ; cilia 
pale greyish ochreous. Abdomen greyish ochreous. Legs pale 
whitish Ochreous. 
Type., S Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. "West Indies— St. Thomas, 22-31 III. (Gudmann). Two 
specimens. 
25. Aeistotelia kittella, sp. n. 
Antennce (broken) : basal joints black with a white annulation. 
Palpi smooth, very slender, second joint as long as the apical joint 
and scarcely to be distinguished from it in thickness ; black 
externally with white annulations, one on the second joint and 
three on the apical. Head sooty-black. Thorax cream-white, 
with a black transverse band anteriorly which also crosses the base 
of the white tegulse. Fore ivings cx'eam-white ; a small black costal 
spot at the base, a broad black transverse fascia before the middle, 
shghtly attenuated at its centre, and a triangular black costal spot 
halfway between the fascia and the apex, this is preceded by a 
small black spot on the dorsum and followed by a few black scales 
on the termen below the apex ; cilia cream-white. Exj). al. 7 mm. 
Hind ivings shining, very pale grey ; cilia with a slight yellowish 
tinge. Abdomen grey ; anal tuft subochreous. Legs shining, 
cream- whitish. 
Type, d Mus. Grudmann. 
Bab. West Indies — Haiti (Port-au-Prince, 22 V., Oudmann). 
Unique. 
Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. V. 5 
66 LORD WALSiNGHAM OH! [Jan. 19, 
26. Abistotelia doesivittella, Z. 
Gelechia (Teleia''!) dorsivittella, Z. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 
267-8, PL III. 20 (1873) \ Gelechia dorsivittella, Chamb. Ball. 
U.S. G.G. Sur\-. IV'. 14.3 (1878) ^ Riley, Smith's List L-p. Bor. 
Am. 101. No. 5357 (1891) ^ 
Hah. United States ^'^ — Texas \ West Indies — St. Ceoix, 
6-1-4 \. {Gudmann, Hedemann). 
§B. Foi-e wings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 out of 7. Hitid wings, 
3 and 4 separate. 
27. Aristotelia eoseosuffusella, Clem. 
Gelechia ? roseosvffusella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 
162-3, 434 (1860) ' : Pr. Eat. Soc. Phil. II. 121 (1863) -. Gelechia 
hellela, Wkr. Cat. Lp. lus. B.M. XXIX. 595 (1864) \ Gelechia 
roseosuffusella, Stn. Tin. N. Am. pp. x, 40, 113-4, 225 (1872)*; 
Chamb. Can. Eut. IV. 69, 148, 169, 193 (1872) '. Gelechia (En/atis) 
roseosuffmella, Z. A^erh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 272-3, PI. IV. 24 
(1873) \ Gelechia roseosuffasella, Mrt. Can. Ent. VI. 222 (1874)'' ; 
Chamb. Can. Ent. VI. 231 (1874) ". Gelechia rosasuffusella, Chamb. 
Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. II. 290 (1875) ". Gelechia roseosuffiisella, Chamb. 
Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. III. 125 ^ 141 (1877)": Can. Ent. IX. 
14 (1877)^': Bull. U.S. G.G. Sotv. IV. J 10", 146 (1878)'*: 
Jr. Cin. Soc. N. H. II. 183 (1880)". Gelechia (Err/atis) roseo- 
siiffusella, AA^sm. Tr. Am. Eut. Soc. X. 180 (1882) '\ Gelechia 
roseosuffusella, Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 102. No. 5470 
(1891) ^ 
Hah. UifiTED States ^'^\ VI.^ VII.'", VIII.' Larva Trifolium pra- 
tense'''^'\ West Indies — San Domingo (Monte Christi, 17 V., 
Gudmami). 
28. Aristotelia pudibundella, Z. 
n. ivn.^^iNTEitMEDiELLA, Chamb. 
Gelecliia {Ergatis) piidAhundella, Z. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 
273-4 (1873) \ Gelechia intermediella, Chamb. Bull. L'.S. G.G. 
Surv. IV. 89, 144 (1878) ". Gelechia pudibundella, Chamb. Bull. 
U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 146 (1878) \ Gelechia intermediella, Wlsm. 
Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 180-1 (1882)*. Gelechia (Err/acis) pucli- 
bunclella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 181 (18S2)'. Gelechia 
intermediella, Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 101. No. 5392 
(lb91) ^ Gelechia pudibundella, Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 
102. No. 5454 (1S91) \ 
Hah. L^NiTED States'"', VII.' West Indies — Hatti (Cap 
Haiti, 18 V., Gudmann) ; St. Croix, 28 IV.-7 V. {Hedemann), 
7 VII. {Pontoppidan). 
1S97.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPXETIA. 67 
29. Aristotelia tbossitlella, sp. n. 
Anten)ice brownish fuscDUS, annulatecl vA"ith white beyond their 
basal fourth. PaZ^ji long, slender, smooth, apical joint somewhat 
longer than the second ; subochreous, the second joint transversely 
banded with three brownish bars, the apical joint with slender 
brownish longitudinal lines. Head and thorax olive-brown. Fore 
wim/s bright olive-brown; from the extreme base an oblique 
leaden-grey line extends downwards to the dorsum at one-fifth ; 
beyond it an oblique black line leaving the costa at one-fifth 
reaches nearly to the dorsum, accompanied throughout on its 
outer edge bj a pinkish-ochreous line followed by steel-grey scales ; 
a patch of steel-grey scales a little before the middle of the costa 
scarcely" reaches beyond the upper margin of the cell, and is 
followed beyond the middle by a small pinkish-ochreous costal dot 
coiuiected by some steel-gi'<^y scales with an inwardly oblique 
pinkish-ochreous line reverting towards the middle of the dorsum, 
l3lack-margined on its inner edge and with steel-grey scales 
externally; some spots of steel-grey scales lie a little above the 
tornus, others being scattered around the termen and the inner 
extremities of a series of pinkish ochreous spots which, to the 
number of about seven, follow the margin of the win^r at the base 
of the costal and terminal cilia and are separated by some dark 
fuscous scales ; cilia subochreous along their base, outwardly with 
two slender grey lines running through them except at the tornus 
where they are uniformly greyish. Ex2). al. 10 mm. Hin<(, luings 
grey ; cilia paler. Abdomen brownisli grey. Lrr/s whitish ochreous, 
obliquely banded with greyish fuscous externally. 
Type, d Mus. Gudmann. 
Ifah. West Indies —Jailvica (Kingston, 19 VII., Cockerell); 
San Domingo (Monte Christi, 19 V., Gudmann). Two specimens. 
30. Akistotelia pulioella, sp. n. 
Antennce stoutish, | ; greyish, with some darker bands towards 
the apex. Palpi : second joint longer than the apical ; whitish, 
the second joint "wdth two black spots beneath, apical joint with 
two black rings, one at the base the other before the apex. Head 
and thorax whitish grey. Fore luinr/s whitish grey, shaded with 
greyish fuscous, especially along the costal third ; this is interrupted 
on the costa by a pale median space and some pale speckling before 
the apex ; some minute blackish dots are scattered along the line 
of the fold, with one on the disc before the middle and a few black 
scales beneath the apex at the base of the yellowish-grey cilia. 
Exp. al. 7 mm. Hind wings brownish grey ; cilia yellowish grey. 
Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs whitish ochreous, the tibiae broadly 
banded externally and the tarsi minutely spotted posteriorly with 
fuscous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies — St. Thomas, 7-8 III. {Gadmann, Hedcmann). 
Three specimens. 
5* 
68 LOBD AVALSiNGHAM oif [Jan. 19, 
31. ArISTOTELIA CB.ASSICORNIS, S]). u. 
Antennce stout, somewhat flattened ; very pale cinereous. Paljii 
slender, second joint longer than the apical, slightly roughened 
beneath especially at the extremity of the second joint ; whitish, 
shaded externally nearly to the end of the second joint, apical joint 
faintly biannulate. Head and thorax hoary whitish. Fore winjs 
hoary whitish, sprinkled with greyish-fuscous scaling ; with nume- 
rous short, slender, dark fuscous longitudinal streaklets accom- 
l)anied by a few ferruginous scales, these have a tendency to follow 
the lines of the cell and of the fold, being only indicated on the 
co«ta by a minute streak at the base and two spots, one before the 
other behind the middle ; cilia hoary whitish dusted with fuscous 
atoms. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind icings shining, pale grey; cilia 
yellowish grey. Abdomen shining, iridescent, silvery grey. Legs 
whitish, tarsi unspotted. 
T!/2ye, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Jan, 13-16 IV. {Gudmaim). Two 
specimens, bred from a plant which was not identified. 
" Eaupe cylindrisch, 16-fiissig, bliiulich hellgriin mit einem 
rothen Giirtel, bestehend aus vier dunkelrothen Flecken in der 
Einschnlirung zwischen den Segmenteu, und zwei grossere rothe 
Flecke stehen am Riicken jedes Segments. Kopf hellbrauu, Fiisse 
von der Grundfarbe ; das letzte Leibsegment bliiulich griin, mit 
einem grossen rothen Tlecke auf dem Eiicken. 
" Die Raupen lebeu zu zwei, drei oder vier geselhg z\vischen 
zusammengesponneuen Slattern, und alle Excremente werden 
theils zwischen den Slattern, theils ausserhalb des Eandes der 
Blattwohnung festgesponneu, so dass die Eanpen ganz versteckt 
sind." (^Gudmann). 
§ C. Fore tvings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 separate. Hind ivings, 3 and 4 
separate. 
32. Aeistotelia picticornis, sp. n. 
Antennm delicately annulated with white and blackish. Palpi 
very slender, smooth ; beautifully marked with alternate riugs of 
white and fuscous throughout. Head and thorax brownish fuscous. 
Fore ivUujs brownish fuscous, evenly speckled and mottled with 
ashy grey throughout ; a faint indication of a dark spot beyond 
the middle of the fold and groups of ashy-grey scales around the 
termen at the base of the ashy-grey cilia, through which run a 
slender dark dividing line beyond their middle. Exp. al. 10 mm. 
Hind ivings as broad as the fore wings ; pale chestnut-grey ; the 
cilia about the termen grey, along the dorsum inclining to chestnut. 
Abdomen brownish ochreous. Legs with alternate rings of white 
and fuscous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Croix, 2 V. (^edcwrtjm). .Unique. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIBOPTEEA. 69 
11. ElTCATOPTUS, g. n. 
(ei/caVonros^easily seen.) 
Type, Eucatoptus jyenicillata, Wlsm. 
Aniennce (|), c? very shortly ciliate ; without pecten. 
Maxillary 2}alpi very short. 
Labial palpi recurved ; apical joint pointed, almost as long as 
the second ; second joint somewhat flattened laterally, not roughly 
clothed beneath. 
Haustellum well developed. 
Head and thorax smooth. 
Fore ivinc/s with the costa evenly arched ; apex depressed, bluntly 
pointed ; termen oblique, tornus evenly rounded. Neuration : 12 
veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 6 separate (6 sometimes out of 7, 
e. g cliaLyheichroa). 
Hind wings bai'dly 1, elongate, trapezoidal ; apex produced, 
pointed ; termen emarginate beneath apex ; tornus angular, 
dorsum straight ; cilia 1| ; S with long pencil of expansible hairs 
from the base of the costa (extending almost the length of the 
cell of the fore wings). Neuration : 8 veins ; 3, 4, and 5 remote, 
almost parallel, 6 and 7 remote. 
Abdomen slender. 
Legs : hind tibise thinly haired above. 
Closely allied to Aristoielia, Hb., from which it is distinguished 
by the costal hair-pencil of the c? • 
§ A. Fore wings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 ottt of 7. Hind wings, 3 and 4 
separate. 
33. EUCATOPTUS CHALTBEICHEOA, Sp. n. 
Antenna: basal joint somewhat enlarged and flattened in the 
c5' ; whitish cinereous, very faintly annulated with two darker 
bands towards the apex. Palpi : second joint as long as the 
apical joint, somewhat roughly clothed ; dirty whitish, with two 
fuscous spots on the second joint externally and two fuscous 
annulations on the apical joint. Head and thorax dirty whitish, 
speckled with cinereous. Fore wings brownish cinereous, with a 
steely gloss throughout and some ferruginous scaling, especially 
on the outer half; at the extreme base of the costa is a small dark 
fuscous spot, narrowly connected with an oblique narrow broken 
fascia of the same colour, extending outwards to the dorsum, 
which it reaches at about one-fourth the wing-length ; beyond 
this is a minute black spot on the outer half of the fold, the 
remainder of the wing to the apex being speckled with black scales, 
some preceded by whitish ; on the costa before the apex is an 
elongate shining whitish spot, followed by black speckling around 
the base of the terminal cilia which partake of the wing-colour, 
but tending to pale grey at the tornus, with a dark shade running 
70 LOED WALSINGHAM OX [Jail. 19, 
around their extreme tips. Exp. al. 9 mm. Bind wings : J with 
a strong expansible hair-pencil at the base of the costa ; shining- 
pale steel-grey; cilia with a slight yellowish tinge. Abdomen 
shining pale brownish cinereous. Legs whitish cinereous, much 
speckled with greyish fuscous. 
Type, ? Mus."Wlsm. ; c? Mus. Gudmanu. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 4-8 IV. (bred from Acacia 
arabica — Gudmann). 
§ B. Pure ivinys, 7 and S stallced, 6 separate. Hind winys, 3 and 4 
separate ; with costal hair-pencil in S • 
34. EUCATOPTDS PENICILLATA, Sp. U. 
Antennce greyish. Palpi: second joint smooth but somewhat 
stout ; white, but spotted externally with greyish fuscous, the 
apical joint bianuulate with the same. Head whitish ochreous. 
Thorax light ochreous. Fore tvings ochreous, mottled with greyish 
fuscous and metallic steel-grey, with creamy-white streaks and 
spots ; an oblique greyish-fuscous patch, edged w ith blackish scales 
externally, extends from the base of the costa nearly to the dorsum 
and is immediately followed by a triangular whitish streak of equal 
length ; two small whitish spots on the costa beyond it are followed 
around the termen by short streak-spots through the terminal 
cilia ; two small black dots lie on the cell, the first at one-half, the 
other at its end ; the steel-grey mottling appears to accompany 
the paler markings, except in the case of one patch near the tornus ; 
a rosy tinge appears beyond the edge of the cell and between the 
black dots upon it; cilia rosy greyish. Exp. al. 30 mm. Hind 
wings : cJ with a conspicuous, long, brownish ochreous, expansible 
hau-- pencil arising near the base of the costa ; pale grey, cilia 
brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish, faintly 
spotted externally. 
Ty2>e, 2 Mus.'Gudmann ; c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— Hatti (Cap Haiti, 20 V., Giidmann); San 
DoiiiKGo (Monte Christi, 12 V., Gudmann) ; St. Ckoix, 28 IT. 
(Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 12-31 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 
35. EucATOPXus BUBiDELLA, Clem. 
= susEysELLA, Chamb. ^ ; =z*pui>ibuni)Ella, Chanab. (nee Z.). 
Gelechia ? rtdjidella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 163, 434 
(1860)^: Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 11. 121 (1863) ^ Stn. Tin. N. Am. 
pp. X, 40, 115, 225 (1872) ^ GelecJiia rubensclla, Chamb. Can. 
Ent. lY. 193-4 (1872) •• ; Mrt. Can. Ent. VI. 222 (1S74) \ Gele- 
chia p)udib^uHhlla, Chamb. Can. Ent. IX. 23 (1877) ^ Gelechia 
rubevsella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 89, 147 (1878)'. 
Gelechia rubiddla, Chamb. Bull. U.S. GG. Surv. IV. 147 (1878) ^ 
Gelechia {Erqatis) ruUdella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 180-1 
(1882)'. Gelechia rubensclla. Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr. Ep. Ent. Y. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTERA. 71 
220, No. 387 (1890)". Gelecliia ruhidella, Eiley, Smith's List 
Lep. Bor. Am. 102. No. 5471 (1891)". 
Hah. United States ^"", VIII." Larva Quercus '-^^ West 
Indies — St. Croix, 24-6 IV. (Hedemami) ; St. Thomas, 9 III. 
(^Oudmann). 
36. EUCATOPTUS LYCOPEESICELLA, Sp. n. 
Antennce mouse-grey, faintly annulated. Pal2n rather short, 
somewhat stout, smooth ; greyish fuscous externally, with four 
white bands ; uniformly whitish on their inner side. Head and 
thorax mouse-grey. Fore wings greyish fuscous, evenly sprinkled 
with mouse-grey and some ferruginous ; without describable mark- 
ings, except a series of small groups of blackish scales around the 
termen at the base of the cilia, which are the same colour as the 
wing, except at the tornus where they are plain gi-eyish. Exp. al. 
9 mm. Hind ivings : d with a long ochreous hair-pencil above 
from the base of the costal margin ; grey, cilia the same. Abdomen 
greyish. Legs whitish ochreous, laterally banded with greyish 
fuscous externally ; hind tibiae with ochreous hairs above. 
Type, 2 Mus.'Wlsm.; d Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Croix, 3-5 V. (Gudmann). Two speci- 
mens. 
" Die Eaupe lebt an Lycopersiatm in einem umgeschlagenen 
Blattrande, von welcher Wohnung es, wenn esfrisst, geht minirend 
in das Blatt hinein." (Gudmann.) 
12, Geniadophora, gen. n. 
{y€V€ias=a beard ; 0OjoeTj'=to bear.) 
Type, Poecilia extranea, "Wlsm. 
Antennce more than | ; basal joint long and slender. 
Maxillary palpi minute. 
Labial paljji recurved, divergent ; apical joint as long as second ; 
second joint with a divided comb-like brush beneath, extending 
also less conspicuously above it at its outer end. 
Haustellum moderate. 
Ocelli present. 
Head and thorax smooth. 
Pore wings narrow, elongate, apex slightly rounded, termen 
obliquely rounded. Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 
the others separate. 
Hind ivings narrower than the fore wings, apex acute, termen 
obliquely bisinuate, dorsum parallel with costa. Neuration: 8 veins, 
3 remote from 4, 6 and 7 separate, 5 approximated to 4. 
Legs : hind tibiae witli long tine hairs above. 
37. Geniadophora extranea, "Wlsm. 
Pcecilia extranea, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 521-2, 546 
(1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies— St. Vincent, V.' ; Grenada {H. H. Smith). 
72 XOKD -WAXSINGHAM ON [Jllll. 10, 
13. Xenolechia, Meyr. 
38. Xenolechia glanbieebella, Z. 
= SELLA, Chamb. ^ 
Geh'chia {Anacampsis) glancUferella, 7i. Verli. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 
XXIII. 275-6, PI. IV. 25 (1873) \ Gelechia sella, Chamb. Can. 
Eut. VI. 238 (1874) ■\ Gelechia glancUferella, Chamb. Can. Enh, 
IX. 14 ^ 24 (1877)': Bull. U.S. G.G. vSiirv. IV. 144 (1878) ^ 
Eiley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. lul. Jv'o. 5382 (1891) ^ 
Hab. United States l-^ VIU", VIII. S IX.^ West Indies— 
Grenada (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side. 25-30 VIII. — 
(//. H. Smith). 
Professor Eiley (I. c. No. 6) sunk Gelecliia j^allidochrella, Chamb., 
as a synonym of this species, but under his number 5439 he re- 
tained it as a distinct species. Although it is obvious t\iat palli- 
(lochrella is closely allied to glandiferella, I am not quite convinced 
that it is synonymous with it. 
14. Gelechia, Hb. 
39. Gelechia elammulella, sp. n. 
Antennce pale brownish. Palpi long, recurved, overarching the 
head, the second and third joints of almost equal length and stout- 
ness ; whitish, banded with chestnut-brown above (three binds on 
the second and two on the apical joint). Head hoary- greyish. 
Thorax whitish ochreous ; tegulte shaded with brown. Fore n'ings 
brownish ochreous along the costal, tawny-brown along the dorsal 
half, without any dividing line, the two colours blending beyond 
the middle ; from the costa at the base a dark chocolate-brown 
shade curves downwards and outwards, ending in a conspicuous 
dash along the lower edge of the cell before the middle, its upper 
edge narrowly margined with whitish throughout, a minute dot of 
the same dark colour at the lower angle of the cell ; the whole 
wing suffused with a rich vinous gloss ; cilia brownish ochreous. 
Exp. al. 13'5 mm. Hind wings broader than the fore wings ; grey ; 
cilia inclining to brownish ochreous. Abdomen shining, yellowish 
grey ; with a fuscous spot on the sides of each segment beneath. 
Legs with the hind tibioB hairy above ; shining, whitish with a slight 
ochreous tinge, two or three spots on the outer sides of the tibiae ; 
the two anterior pairs of legs are whitish, with numerous brownish 
fuscous bands. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 6-11 III. (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Two specimens. 
40. Gelechia perspicua, sp. n. 
Antennae with the basal joint very long and slender ; dark brown, 
faintly annulated with whitish ochreous. Palpi veiy long, recurved, 
slender, the apical joint as long as the second ; dark brow n, mottled 
1897.] WEST-I>"DIA?f MICRO-TiEPIDOPTERA. 73 
with whitish ocbreous. Head whitish, mottled with dark brown. 
Thorax dark brown, with faiut whitish specklings at the tips of 
the scales ; a silvery spot behind at the base of the abdomen. 
Fore winr/s dark brown, much mottled with whitish ocbreous, 
mingled with iridescent green reflections; the paler colouring does 
not extend to the base but only to the sinuate oblique outer edge 
of a strongly-marked dark basal patch, the green metallic reflections 
being especially noticeable beyond its outer margin; below the 
middle of the costal margin is a small ocelloid spot with a dark 
brown centre, and the pale upper margin is preceded by a smaller 
one and followed by a third spot a little more distant from it, which 
forms the outer extremity of a dark brown shade ; three patches 
of raised whitish-ochreous scales, the first on the disc before the 
middle, and two below the disc almost reaching the dorsum, the 
one before the other behind the middle ; the apical portion of the 
wing is much mottled and contains a paler costal patch at one- 
fourth from the apex ; cilia dark brown, at the apex mottled with 
whitish ocbreous and tending to dull grey at the tornus. Ex2y. al. 
13 mm. Bind winr/s very transparent, the veins indicated by 
greyish brown, the intermediate spaces except at the apex with 
bright steel-blue iridescence ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish 
brown. Hind legs dark brown, spotted and banded with whitish 
ocbreous. 
Type, tS Mus. Gudmann. 
Hah. West Indies — Hayti (Cap Haiti, 18 V., Gudmann). 
Unique. 
This species has somewhat the appearance of Xenolechia Jiumer- 
alis, Z. 
41. GrELECHIA TRANSLUCIDA, Wlsm. 
Bn/otropha transhicida, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520, 545 
(1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies— Dominica ^ ; St. Vincent ^ ; Grenada 
(Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 27 IV. ; Mount Gay Estate, 
300 ft., leeward side, 3-10 IX.— H. H. Smith). 
In the original description, by a clerical error, the type was 
recorded as a $ ; it is a d' . 
42. Gelechia sphenophoea, sp. n. 
Antennce brownish grey. Pal2n brownish fuscous ; apical joint 
with a pale ocbreous spot at its apex. Head and thorax brownish 
grey. Fore wings oHve-brown, inclining to ferruginous at the base, 
the lighter basal patch is bounded externally by an obhque cunei- 
form ocbreous streak, tending outwards from the costa at one-fifth 
from the base and reaching to the fold ; a small ocbreous spot lies 
at the end of the discal cell, and a larger, rather paler, costal spot at 
the commencement of the costal cilia ; around the termen are four 
or five ill-defined pale ocbreous spots before the commencement of 
the olive-brown cilia. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind ivings blue-grey ; 
cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish 
74 LORD WALSIlfGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
ochreous, obliquely banded on the tibiae and broadly annulated on 
the tarsi with brownish grey. 
Type, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm, 
Huh. West Indies — Geenada (Mount G-ay Estate, 300 ft., 
leeward side, 1-5 X. ; Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 5 IV.- 
8 V. — H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 
43. Gelechia cbocipunctella, Wlsm. 
Llta crocipunctclla, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 520-1, 546 
(1892) \ 
-Hab. West Indies— St. Vincent ^ 
44. Gelechia leucocephala, sp. n. 
Anteimce dark fuscous. Palpi white, the second joint with a 
single dark spot at its base ; apical joint with two dark annulatious, 
the first at the base, the other just before the apex. Head and 
face white. Thorax pale ochreous ; tegulae brownish fuscous. 
Fore wings pale ochreous, with dark brownish-fuscous mottlings or 
ill-defined patches ; the first at the base reaching the costa, but not 
the dorsum, is connected narrowly on the costa and along the fold 
with a second, which is larger and extends nearly to the middle of 
the wing but does not cross the fold, this is also narrowly con- 
nected along the costa with a smaller costal patch at two-thirds 
from the base, a few dark fuscous scales lying at the end of the 
cell below it ; cilia pale ochreous, some dark fuscous scaling lying 
at their base along the termen and apex. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind 
ivings pale shining grey ; cilia pale greyish ochreous. Abdomen 
pale ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous. 
Type, S Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 6 III. (Gudmann). Unique. 
45. Gelechia capitella, F. 
n. syn.:=ROsu STELLA, Wkr. ; n. syn. ^sivulella, Mschl. 
Alucita capitella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 330. No. 2 (1794)'. 
PhaJcena (Alucita) capitella, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 379 (1 806) ^ 
Gelechia rohusteVa, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 597 (1864) \ 
Gelechia rivuMla, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 344, 354 
(1890) ^ Gelechia rohustella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519, 
545 (1892) ^ Gelechia rivulella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
519, 545 (1892) ^ 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica ^'^; Pobtoeico *'^; [St. Ceoix 
(?=" Americai Insulis, Dr. Pfug"'), Wlsm.']; St. Thomas, 6 III. 
-5 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 
Bred by Baron von Hedemann, but the plant not identified. 
" It was bred from a very small plant growing on very dry sandy 
places, where also the moth was to be found in abundance " (Hdm.). 
Fabricius obtained this species from Dr. Pflug, who died in 
St. Croix, which island is probably indicated by " in Americae 
1 897.] "WEST-INDIAN MICnO-LEPIDOPTEKA. 75 
Insulis." Fabricius's description is sufficiently good to leave little 
doubt that he had robustella, Wkr., before him. I have examined 
Walker's type, and consider Moschler's description of rivulella to 
refer to the same species. 
46. Gelechia bosquella, Chamb. 
n. syn. ^^cosTiPUJVCTjEZLA, Mschl. 
(EcopJiora hasqucella, Chamb. Can. Ent. VII. 92 (1875) \ Gelechia 
hasqueella, Chain b. Can. Eut. VII. 124 (1875) '". Gelechia? hosqiiella, 
Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 87, 142 (1878) ^ Gelechia 
{Bnjotropha ?) hosquella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 178 (1882) \ 
Gelechia costipunctella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Gas. XV. 344, 354 
(1890) ^ Gelechia hosquella, Eiley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 
100. No. 5329 (1891)'. Gelechia' costij)unctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Loud. 1891, 519, 545 (1892) \ 
Hah. Uhtjed States ^"*' ". West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 
1100 ft., XL, JReiidall) ; Poetoeico''' ; St. Ceoix, 23 IV. (Becle- 
mann) ; St. Thomas, 10 IV. {Gudmann); Grenada (Balthazar, 
250 ft., windward side, 5-10 lY.—H. H. Smith). 
Three specimens which cannot be separated from hosquella 
received from Texas, ahhough like many of the insular forms they 
are slightly smaller. They also agree well with Moschlei-'s descrip- 
tion of costiqnmclella, and I have little doubt that he had this 
species before him. 
47. Gelechia Donatella, "Wkr. 
Gelechia donatella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 596-7 
(1864)^ ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1891, 519, 545 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica '■^ 
48. Gelechia exclabella, Mschl. 
Gelechia exclarella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 343-4, 354 
(1890)^; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519, 545 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — Poktoeico^'^ 
49. Gelechia biniveipunctata, sp. n. 
Antennce fuscous above, banded with white beneath, the annu- 
lations more widely separated towards the apex than on the stem. 
Palqn : apical joint as long as the second, the latter slightly 
roughened beneath ; whitish, the second joint shaded externally 
at the base with fuscous, a fuscous spot at its apex ; apical joint 
with two broad fuscous bands. Head and thorax cream-white, 
laterally shaded with brownish fuscous. Fore wings tawny brown, 
with two white costal spots, the first small at half the wing-lengtb, 
the second larger at the commencement of the costal cilia; an 
ochreous band beginning at the base follows the dorsum to the end 
of the fold, where it terminates in a slight rounded projection above 
the fold ; its upper edge is indented about the middle by a dark 
76 LORD WALSINGnAM ON" [Jan. 19, 
tawny-brown spot, blending with the ground-colour above it ; 
three shining steel-grey bands can be traced with the lens, the 
first commencing on the costa at one-fifth and tending obliquely 
outwards to the fold ; the second, commencing at the first costal 
spot, runs almost straight to the fold, and slightly encroaches on 
the ochreous baud beneath it ; the third, slightly preceding the 
second costal spot at its lower extremity, reaches to the dorsum at 
the termination of the ochreous band ; cilia tawny brown, with an 
admixture of steel-grey scales. Exp. al. c5' 8 ; ^10 mm. Hind 
li'imjs steel-grey ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. 
Legs pale cinereous ; tarsi faintly spotted. 
Type, 6 $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Grenada (Balthazar, windward side — //. 
H. Smith). Three specimens. 
50. Gelechia postpallescens, sp. n. 
AntenncB brownish fuscous with whitish annulations. Palpi : 
apical joint as long as the second joint ; whitish, with a fuscous 
spot externally on the basal half of the second joint. Head and 
thorax creamy ochreous, the latter margined at the sides with 
brownish fuscous. Fore winrjs narrow ; brownish fuscous, sparsely 
sprinkled with ochreous scales ; a creamy-ochreous dorsal streak 
occupies one-third the width of the wing and runs from the base 
through the tornal cilia ; a small creamy-ochreous costal spot lies 
at one-fourth from the apex, and a few pale ochreous scales are 
visible at the base of the brownish-fuscous terminal cilia. Exp. 
al. 9 mm. Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen brownish grey. 
Legs whitish ochreous ; tarsi minutely spotted with fuscous. 
Type, $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15 IV. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 
51. Gelechia jamaicensis, sp. n. 
Antennfe creamy white, with greyish-fuscous annulations, 
Paljn : apical joint as long as the second joint, the latter slightly 
roughened beneath ; cream-white, the second joint doubly barred 
with fuscous externally, the apical joint biannulate with fuscous. 
Head creamy white. Thorax pale ochreous, whitish anteriorly. 
Fore luings pale ochreous, with a slight admixture of creamy -white 
and some ferruginous shading ; sprinkled and suffused with greyish 
fuscous above the fold and along the costa (especially on its outer 
two-thirds, where it extends to half the width of the wing), 
presenting a peppered or irrorated appearance ; this irroration is 
continued around the termen and in the base of the greyish cilia ; 
two dark ferruginous-brown ocellated spots before the middle of 
the wing, the first at the commencement of the outer third of the 
fold, the other above and very slightly beyond it (in some speci- 
mens these spots are hardly noticeable, while in others the upper 
one is preceded and followed by similar spots). Exp. al. 8 mm. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICUO-LEPIDOPTERA. 77 
Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish ochreous. 
Hind legs creamy-whitish, with greyish-fuscous tibial shades and 
tarsal spots. 
Type, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Jamaica (Kingston, VII. 1892— r. D. A. 
Cockerell). Seven specimens. " So abundant round the lamp iu my 
house during the past week as to amount to a pest, getting into 
the drinking water, tc," Ckrll. i.lAii VII. 1S92. 
52, GrELECHIA GUDMANNELLA, Sp. U. 
Antennce pale brownish cinereous. Paljn whitish cinereous, 
shaded externally. Head and thorax pale brownish ciaereous. 
Fore wings pale brownish cinereous, sparsely speckled with black ,: 
on the cell befoi-e the middle is a minute elongate black streaklet, 
followed by a second in the same line with it at the end of the cell ; 
a small black spot on the fold lies below the first streaklet, and 
on the costal and apical portion a few slender pale lines are trace- 
able along the veins, but these are very inconspicuous ; around the 
termen and apex minute groups of blackish scales mark the base of 
the cilia, through the upper portion of which runs a slender dark 
line, the cilia being otherwise scarcely paler than the ground-colour. 
Exp. al. 8-10 mm. Hind tvings shining greyish ; cilia paler, with 
a slight ochreous tinge ; on the costal margin near the base appears 
a slight thickening of cuticle, with a small brownish-ochreous 
hair-pencil. Abdomen pale brownish cinereous. Legs whitish 
cinereous. 
Tyjje, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V. — Gud- 
mann); St. Croix, 27 IV. {Gudmann); St. Thomas, bred from 
Solaniim, 24-25 III. {Gudmann, Hedemann). 
15. Didacttlota, Wlsm. 
= § Dactyzota, Snell. 
53. Didacttlota dicolob, Wlsm. 
Didactylota bicolor, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 522, 546 
(1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 
16. PoLTHYMNO, Chamb. 
= COPOCESCIA, 7i. 
54. POLYHYMNO LUTEOSTEIGELLA, Chamb. 
= FuscosTRiGELLA, Cliamb.^ 
Polyhymno luteostrigella, Chamb. Can. Ent. VI. 247-8 (1874) \ 
Polyhymno fiiscostrigeUa, Ch&mh. Can. Ent. VIII. 30-1 (1876)". 
Polyhymno luteostrigella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.Gr. Surv. IV. 161 
(1878) ■' : Jr. Ciu. Soc. N.H. II. 198, 203, fig. 26 (1880)"; Beut. 
78 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
Enfc. Am. V. 37 (1889)'; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 95, 
96, PI. VII. 78 (1891) ^ Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 104, 
No. 5.586 (1891) \ 
Hah. United States'"', VIII.' West Indies— Jamaica 
(Monteague, 1100 ft., XL—Iiendall) ; St. Thomas, 12 III.-2 IV. 
(^Gudmann, Hedemann). 
55. POLTHYMNO LATEEESTRIATA, Sp. U. 
Antmna; white, faintly shaded with greyish ochreous beyond the 
base. Faljn white. Bead white. Thorax greyish ; tegulse white. 
Fore wiiKjs shining silvery white, the extreme apical portion bright 
orange : a very obHque brownish-grey costal streak, followed by a 
scarcely less oblique white one, runs through the orange space 
nearlvto a conspicuous white-margined black spot at the apex, and 
is met bv a more slender oblique streak from the dorsum, also 
followed by a parallel white streak, wider than the one above it, 
and nearly divided at its middle by a slender dark line reverting 
from the tornus ; cilia on their upper half with a shining bronzy 
shade at their base and a grey line running through them obliquely 
downwards from the apex ; on their lower half whitish. Exp. al. 
10 mm. Hind winr/s whitish grey ; cilia white, a reduplicated dark 
line running through them across the apex. Abdomen whitish, 
shaded with grey above, with a series of oblique lateral grey streak- 
lets on either side ; anal tuft whitish. Leys white ; hind tarsi 
shaded aud spotted with greyish fuscous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies— St. Thomas, 30 III.-IO IV. (Hedemann). 
Two specimens. 
56. POLVHYMNO SCIITBELLA, sp. n. 
Antennee white. Falpi shining white. Head and thorax shining 
white. Fore ivings shining bluish white, with an elongate bright 
orange patch preceding the apex and reaching the costa but not 
the dorsum ; this is preceded by a slight greyish shade, which does 
not extend along its upper edge and is followed by a strong black 
apical spot ; before and below the spot is an outwardly curved 
greyish shade, partly enclosing an elongate silver-white oblique 
streak along the tornus ; alternate orange and greyish-fuscous lines 
diverge downwards from the apex through the upper half of the 
cilia, which are plain greyish white about the tornus. Exp. al. 
8 mm. Hind tviiujs pale blue-grey; cilia whitish erey, with two 
slender dark lines crossing them at the apex. Abdomen silvery, 
with a remarkably long and dense pale ochreous anal tuft in the 
male. Lec/s : hind tibiae pale ochreous ; tarsi white, the spurs 
tipped and the tarsi biannulate with greyish fuscous. 
Type, d Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 22-24 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Three specimens. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICKO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 79 
57. POLTHTMNO? GODMANI, Wlstn. 
Poh/hymno'? ffodmani, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 525, 546 
(1892y. 
Hah. West Indies — ^San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V. — 
Gudmann) ; St. Vincent '. 
17. Anacampsis, Crt. 
= Tacstptilia, Hein., Stgr. & Wk., Meyr., &e. 
The type of Anacampsis is Tinea populella, CI., as specified by 
Curtis, Br. Eiit., expl. PL 189 (1827). Por many years this 
generic name has been separated from its type and used for the 
atithyllidella group, for which there is no justification, and Tachy- 
ptilia, Hein., which has usurped the place of the true Anacampsis, 
Curtis, must sink as its synonym. 
58. Anacampsis plumbeolata, sp. n. 
Antennce greyish. Palpi very slender, strongly recurved, smooth, 
' the apical joint slightly longer than the second ; greyish, with a 
black spot at their base externally. Head and thorax smooth ; 
leaden grey. Fore ivings shining, leaden grey, with five blackish 
spots — one on each side of the fold near its base, one resting on the 
middle of the fold, with another immediately above and slightly 
beyond it, the fifth at the end of the cell ; a scarcely perceptibla 
outwardly angulated paler band crosses the wing at one-fourth 
from the apex, terminating in a white spot at the commencement 
of the costal cilia, whence a row of blackish spots extends around 
the apex and termen ; cilia pale leaden grey. Exp. al. 10-5 mm. 
Hind winys broader than the fore wings ; brownish grey, cilia the 
same. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish ochreous. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Cboix, 4 A^. {Hedemann). Unique. 
59. Anacampsis cornifee, sp. n. 
Antennce greyish ochreous, faintly anuidated with fuscous. 
Palpi slender, curved, the second joint compai'atively short, closely 
clothed; whitish, with a distinct black patch on its outer side 
covering the basal two-thirds ; apical joint slender, naked, twice 
the length of the second, yellowish white. Head and thorax 
greyish ochreous. Fore wings greyish ochreous, indistinctly 
speckled with fuscous, a black dot at the extreme base of the 
costa, two fuscous dots in the fold, two on the discal cell, a slight 
fuscous costal shade above the end of the cell, followed by a pale 
ochreous spot, a fe\V fuscous scales lying around the apex and 
termen ; there is a slight greyish suflusion across the middle of 
the wing, and beyond it from the pale costal spot a curved band, 
paler than the ground-colour, is indistinctly traceable across the 
wing ; cilia greyish ochreous. Exp. al. 10-11 mm. Hind luinys 
80 LOUD WALSINGUA.M Olf [Jau, 19, 
browjiish grey, with slightly paler ciHa. Abdomen and ler/s 
brownish grey. 
'Ti/pe, c? Mus. Hedeinann. 
Bab. West Indies— St. Croix, 5-12 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann) ; 
St. Thomas, 20 Ilt.-18 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Six 
specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Croix from larvae feeding on 
Crotonjlavens. 
In a specimen, which I regard as undoubtedly a variety of this 
species, the discal and plical dots are not traceable, the wing- 
surface being merely speckled with fuscous. It appears to be 
somewhat variable. 
60. Anacampsis mangeuvoba, sp. n, 
Antennce greyish fuscous. Palpi long, recurved, slender, the 
apical joint much longer than the second ; second joint smooth, 
clothed with closely-appressed black scales nearly to its apex, which 
is hoary ; apical joint hoary, sprinkled with blackish scales. Head 
and thorax greyish fuscous, with hoary speckling. Fore wings 
greyish fuscous, with profuse hoary speckling ; a dark fuscous 
elongate spot on the costa before the middle is preceded and 
followed by some hoary whitish scaling, of which there is also a 
sho-ht patch at the commencement of the costal ciha ; cilia hoary 
greyish. Exp. ah 14 mm. i/^^incZ ^yin^s brownish grey ; cilia hoary 
grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Letjs hoary greyish ; hind tarsi 
annulate with dirty whitish. 
Type, 2 Mus. Grudmaun. 
liab. West Indies — St. Thomas (bred from Rhizojjhora mangel, 
21 IV. — Gudmann). Unique. 
"Eaupe zwischen zwei zusammengesponuenen, flach auf 
einandern liegenden Slattern von lihizojjhora ; flach, Kopf sehr 
gi-oss, duukelbrauu. Der Korper gegen das After abnehmend in 
Breite, Grundfarbe sehmutzig grfin, mit drei sehr feinen lila- 
farbenen Eiickenlinien ; Bauch hellgelb, IG-f iissig ; nach der letzten 
Hautuug wird sie tleischfarbig, Bauch etwas heller, Kopf duukel- 
braun." (Gudmann). 
61. Anacampsis quinquepunctella, sp. n. 
Antennce cinereous, faintly banded with fuscous. Palpi with 
the second joint somewhat triangular ; dark brownish fuscous 
externally, white within and along the outer edge at its extremity ; 
apical joint slender, naked, more than twice as long as the second ; 
white. Head and thorax dull fawn-grey. Fore luings dull fawn- 
grey, with live greyisb-fuscous spots ; one above and one beneath 
the fold at one-fourth, one on the fold at its outer third wdth 
another on the cell a little above and beyonct it and a small one at 
the end of the cell ; half-way between this and the apex is an 
outwardly augulated, pale cinereous, narrow fascia ; a small dark 
fuscous spot lies at the extreme base of the costa ; cilia pale 
cinereous, darker towards the apex. Exj). al. 10-12 mm. Hind 
1 897.] WEST-IKDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 81 
tvings almost concolorous with the fore wings, but with a slight 
brownish-grey tinge ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen shining, 
brownish grey. Legs pale cinereous. 
2)/2}e, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Bah. West Indies — G-eenada (Balthazar, windward side, 5-15 
IV. — If, H. Smith). Three specimens. 
62, Anacampsis lapidella, sp. n. 
Antenn<e stone-grey. Palpi whitish ; second joint somewhat 
triangular, with a brownish-fuscous shade, not reaching to its outer 
margin, externally ; apical joint long, slender, erect. Head and 
thorax brownish fuscous. Fore wings stone-grey, sprinkled with 
brownish-fuscous scales, with a series of three brownish-fuscous 
discal spots ; the first diffused downwards across the fold at about 
one-fifth, the second a little beyond a smaller plical spot beneath 
it, the third at the end of the cell, of irregular shape and somewhat 
diffused ; above and a little beyond this is a small costal spot 
preceding an inverted pale cinereous costal streak, which forms the 
upper extremity of an ill-defined, narrow, pale cinereous fascia 
crossing the wing nearly parallel with the termen ; cilia ochreous, 
speckled along their base with brownish fuscous and with a line 
of the same colour running through them around the apex and 
also along the termen. Exj). al. 13 mm. Hind ivings brownish 
cinereous ; cilia somewhat paler, with a reduplicated shade-line 
running through them. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Hi7id legs 
whitish cinereous, shaded externally with brownish fuscous ; hind 
tibiae densely hairy above. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, windward side, 15 
IV.— jy. H. Smith). Unique. 
63. Anacampsis insttlaeis, sp. n. 
Antennce greyish fuscous. Palpi : the second joint with a 
closely -appressed triangular tuft above ; greyish fuscous ; apical 
joint twice as long as the second, with two pale annulations. Head 
and thorax greyish fuscous. Fore ivings greyish fuscous, with dirty 
whitish costal blotches reaching nearly half across the wing — one 
elongate, oblique, before the middle ; another smaller, not oblique, 
on the middle ; a third before the apex nearly meeting at its lower 
extremity a smaller one arising from a little beyond the tornus ; 
some dark fuscous spots along the fold are connected by a dark 
line, and an irregular dark line along the outer part of the cell 
connects a small median spot with one a little below the apex ; 
cilia bone-whitish, slightly spotted along their base. Exp. al. 
8 mm. Hind ivings greyish fuscous. Abdomen greyish fuscous. 
Legs gi'eyish fuscous, spotted with bone-white. 
Type, 6 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 24 III. {Hedemann) ; St. Jan, 
27 III. (Gudmann). Two specimens. 
Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. VI. 6 
82 LOBD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
64. Anaoampsis uesectella, Z. 
GelecJiia {Taclu/2)tilia) desectella, Z. Kov. SoG. Ent. Ross. XIII. 
362-3, PI. V. 122 (1877)'. Tachi/ptilia desectdla, Wlsm. Pr. Z. 
Soc. Loud. 1891, 523, 516 (1892)-. 
Hab. West Indies— Cuba '-. 
18. AcoMPSiA, Hb. 
Type, (Tinea) cinerella, CI. (Dp.). 
AcoMPSiA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 409 (1826) ; Stph. 111. Br. 
Ent., Haust. IV. 222-3 (1834); Dp. Hist. Nat. Lp. Fr. XI. 19 
(1838) [ucc Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 633-4 (1895)]. 
= BRACJSTCitossATA, Heiu. Schm. Deutscli. Tin. 323-4 (1870); 
Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 300 (1871). 
^Becurvaria (Hw.), Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 606-7 (1895). 
Westwood [Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 110 (1840)], writing under the 
heading "Acampsia," cites tinctella, Hb. (214), as the type. Staud- 
inger and Wocke refer Hiibuer's figure of cinerella (I73 = tl37 
Stgr.) to Clerck's species of this name ; but it certainly looks more 
like an (Ecop)hora, and Westwood may have been justified in con- 
sidering it to be the same species as tinctella, Hb. (214), otherwise 
tinctella could not be a possible type of Acompsia, not being cited 
by Hiibner. In either case Westwood's specification is inad- 
missible, being subsequent to Dupouchel's citation of cinerella, CI. 
(= ardeliella, Hb. 437), as the type of Hiibner's genus Acompsia. 
Ha worth's genus Becurvaria was not published until 1828, and 
Acompsia, lib. (1826), is therefore entitled to precedence. The 
fourth part of Hawoi'th's Lp. Br., pp. 513-609, is usually con- 
sidered to have been published in 1829, but the completed work is 
reviewed, Mag. N. H. I. 348-9 (September 1828). 
Brachycrossata, Hein., must of course sink as a synonym which- 
ever name is iised lor this genus ; and there appears to be no 
justification for Meyrick's use of Acompsia for the (Ecophora of 
Staudinger and Wocke's Catalog (HB. Br. Lp. 633-4), nor for 
the employment of Eecurvaria, Hw. (in lieu of Acompsia, Hb.), 
for Brachycrossata, Hein. 
65. Acompsia angulipeea, sp. n, 
Antennm greyish cinereous. Palpi smooth, slender, recurved ; 
hoary grey, with a minute dark spot above near the apex. Head and 
thorax hoary greyish. Fore icings hoary greyish, with slight greyish- 
fuscous speckled shading ; at the base of the costa is a small 
elongate blackish spot ; on the fold at one-fourth from the base is 
a blackish transverse spot, followed by a smaller length-spot in the 
fold ; at the middle of the costa is an outwardly oblique greyish 
fuscous shade, mixed with some chestnut scales, terminating in a 
slender curved line on the outer end of the cell ; before the apex 
is a slender hoary whitish transverse fascia, slightly angulated 
outwards on the middle and preceded by a greyish-fuscous shade 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEBA. 83 
mixed with some chestnut ; the pale fascia is connected at each 
extremity with an internally dark margined pale line which passes 
around the base of the cilia, interrupted only at the extreme apex 
and forming a triangular pattern ; a reduplicated slender fuscous 
and chestnut line runs through the hoary cilia along the termen. 
Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings and cilia leaden grey. Abdomen 
greyish. Legs hoary, speckled with greyish fuscous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 7 V.-ll V. (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann) ; Grenada (Balthazar, windward side, 5-27 IV. — H. H. 
Smith). Eight specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann from a plant which was not identified. 
66. ACOMPSIA PSOEICOPTEEELLA, Wlsm. 
Brachycrossata psoricoptereUa, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
523-4,546 (1892) >. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent '. 
19. Helcystogeamma, Z. 
=BiiACHTCB08SATA (Kem.), Sect. B,Whiai. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1891, 98-9. 
67. Helcystogeamma obsebatella, Z, 
Gelechia (Helcystogramma) ohseratella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. 
XIII. 371-3, PI. V. 127 (1877)'. Helcystogramma ohseratella, 
Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 (1892) ^ 
ira6. West Indies— Cuba ' ^ 
20. Teichotaphe, Clem. 
68. Teichotaphe teigonella, Wlsm. 
Trichotaplie trigonellcr, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 523, 546 
(189i^)^ 
Hah. West Indies — S. Ceoix, 15 V. (Gudmann); St. Vincent \ 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann, but the food-plant not determined. 
69. Teichotaphe tegulella, sp. n. 
Antennce whitish ochreous, annulated with umber-brown. Palpi 
much flattened laterally, smooth, second joint with closely ap- 
pressed clothing ; umber-brown, on their inner side brownish 
ochreous. Head and thorax pale umber-brown ; tegulse con- 
spicuously pale ochreous. Fore wings dark purplish fuscous, with 
an elongate blackish spot on the outer third of the fold, separating 
the dark upper portion of the wing from the narrow dorsal 
portion, which, below and beyond the fold, is throughout pale 
ochreous ; a small white spot lies at the end of the cell and a 
larger white costal spot before the apex, this is connected with the 
tornus by a narrow broken line of ochreous scales ; along the 
termen is a narrow blackish band preceded by a curved line of 
6* 
84 iiOBD WALSUfGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
white dots parallel with the margin and followed by tbe purplish- 
grey cilia. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind wings greyish brown ; cilia 
grey, with a dark dividing shade near the base. Abdomen greyish 
brown. Legs greyish brown, faintly spotted with whitish ochreous, 
paler on their inner sides throughout. 
Ty2-ie, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, windward side, 
15 III.-IO IV.— ^. H. Smith). Three specimens. 
21. Malacoteicha, Z. 
70. Malacoteicha zingaeella, sp. n. 
Antennce nearly as long as tbe fore wing; greyish. Pa^n 
rather long, slender, curved ; the second joint with long hair-like 
scales above ; white. Head subochreous above, face white. 
Thorax subochreous. Foi-e wings narrow, elongate, the costa 
depressed about the middle, apex somewhat rounded, termen 
very oblique ; ochreous, mottled with brick-red and streaked with 
steel-blue, with three black dots along the termen ; cilia steel-grey. 
(It is difficult to describe the exnct distribution of the colours, the 
brick-red occurring between the ochreous spaces, also between 
some steel-blue lines that mark the course of the apical nervules 
and along the terminal margin separating the three black dots 
from the cilia ; the steel-blue is especially noticeable about the 
costal portion of the wing, where it runs in slender lines through 
the brick-red and ochreous spaces.) Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings 
and cilia pale grey. Abdomen subochreous. Legs whitish. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 1 V. (Gudmann) ; St. Thomas, 
11-21 III. (Hedemann). Four specimens. 
" The larva mines in the fleshy leaves of Coccoloba uvifera. 
Mr. Gudmann has bred this species in numbers " (Hedemann). 
" Raupe 16-fiissig, nach hlnten zu stark zugespitzt, gelbgriin mit 
durchscheinenden Darmkanal, z^-ischen den Segmenten stark 
eingeschniirt. Kopf braun, rund, kann bis zur Hiilfte in die 
Haut des ersten Segments eingezogen ^erden ; Afterklappe mit 
dunklem Schild von der Farbe des Kopfes. 
" Die Minen sassen meistens nur am Eande des Blattes und 
ofters sehr viele in demselben Blatte. Verpuppung in der Mine." 
(Gudmann.) 
22. Deepanoteema, g. n. 
(dpeTrdvov = a scimitar ; rep/xa=an end.) 
Type, Brepanoterma lacticaudellum, Wlsm. 
Antennce as long as the fore wings, bieiliate (1). 
Labial palpi recurved^ long, smooth, flattened, divergent ; apical 
joint scarcely half the length of the second. 
Maxillary palpi very short. 
Haustellum long. 
Head with appressed scales. 
^897.] ' WEST-INDIAN MlOEO-LEPlDOtTEEA. 85 
Thorax smootli. 
Fore ivings narrow, elongate, of approximately even width 
throughout, somewhat securiform, apex slightly uucate, termen 
oblique, tornus angular. Neuration : 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 
2 and 3 stalked. 
Hind ivings trapezoidal, slightly broader than the fore wings, 
dorsum sinuate, tornus obtusely angular, not incised beneath the 
apex, costa straight, abdominal angle developed. Neuration : 8 
veins, 6 and 7 connate, 3 and 4 from a short stalk, 5 approximated 
to 3 + 4. 
Abdomen somewhat flattened, aual tuft rather strongly deve- 
loped. 
Legs : hind tibiae somewhat roughly (but not thickly) clothed. 
Allied to Strobisia, Clem., but easily separated by the length of 
the antenuse, the shape of the termen, and the longer palpi. 
71. Deepanoteema lacticaudellum, sp. n. 
Antennce dark fuscous, very faintly annulated ; basal joint whitish 
beneath. Palpi bronzy brown, apical joint tipped with white. Head 
and thorax dark purplish. Fore ivings shining ferruginous, the basal 
third transversely blotched and striated with dark purplish fuscous 
and dark ferruginous, the apex and termen also shaded with dark 
purplish fuscous and illuminated ^ith steel-grey patches ; cilia 
whitish ochreous, mth dark grey streaks running through them (to 
the number of five or six), at the tornus purplish fuscous. Exp. al, 
12 mm. Hind ivings dark cojjpery grey with iridescent reflections 
at the base of the cell ; cilia coppery grey. Abdomen dark purplish 
fuscous, anal tuft conspicuoLis, whitish ochreous. Legs shining 
creamy whitish, tarsi and tibiae shaded with greyish. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Geenada (Chantilly Estate, 350 it., wind- 
ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). One specimen taken on the 
banks of a stream. 
23. Menesta, Clem. 
72. Menesta ? cineeeoceevina, "Wlsm. 
Oelechia cinereocervina, Wlsip. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1891, 519-20, 
545(1892)'. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 
The neuration of the fore wings of this species as recorded 
(I. c. 519) is erroneous. I find on a re-examination of the two 
original specimens that they have only eleven veins, not twelve, and 
therefore wish to amend my original description as follows : — 
Fore ivings with 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), 7 + 8 approxi- 
mated to 9, running to the costa. 
With this correction GelecJiia cinereocervina differs from Menesta 
tortriciformella, Clem., in having 6 and 7 of the hind wings con- 
nate instead of stalked, and in not having biciliate antennae ; but 
for the moment I am unwilling to separate them generically. 
86 LORD \?-al3ingham; on [Jan. 19, ' 
24. Ypsolophus, F. 
[It is doubtful whether this generic name is rightly employed, 
but not having concluded the study of its history I have adopted 
it in the sense in which it is used by lieinemaun, titaudinger 
and Wocke, &c.] 
73. Ypsolophus manellus, Mschl. 
Ypsolophus manellus, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 344-5, 
354 (1890)' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 525, 546 (1892) ^ 
Eab. West Indies — Poetoeico '■-. 
74. Ypsolophus eusticus, Wlsm. 
Ypsolophus rusticus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 525-6, 546 
(1892) \ 
Hub. United States — Texas', 13 VI. West Indies— St. 
Vincent ' ; Geenada (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 
25 Vni.-10 IX.— iT. H. Smith). 
75. Ypsolophus pipeeatus, Wlsm. 
Ypsolophus piper atus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 526, 546 
(1892) •. 
Eab. West Indies— S. Thomas, 31 IIL-9 IV. (Guimann, 
Hedemann); St. Vincent \ 
" Larva mining in the leaves of a Solaiiea '' (^Bedemann). " On 
a papilionaceous plant with pink cluster-flowers" {Oudnumn), 
76. Ypsolophus indiqnus, Wlsm. 
Ypsolophus indignus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 526-7, 546 
(1892) \ 
ffab. West Indies— St. Ceoix, 4 V. {Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 
10 HI. (Gudmann) ; St. Vincent ' ; Geenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., 
windward side, 5-30 IV. — H. H. Smith). 
77. Ypsolophus juventellus, sp. n. 
Antenna' ochreous, delicately aunulated with umber-brown. 
Palpi white on their inner sides, the triangularly-tufted second 
joint umber-brown externally to two-thirds of its length. Head 
and thorax whitish ochreous. Fore wiixjs umber-brown, with a broad 
whitish-ochreous band extending from the base to the termen 
along the dorsal half of the wing, its upper edge indented at and 
beyond the middle by two slight projections of the darker ground- 
colour ; three umber-brown spots on the termen above the tornus 
are followed by the whitish-OL-hreous cilia, through which runs an 
evenly curved line of uraber-brown, giving the apex a rounded 
appearance ; a small oblique white dot lies on the costa before the 
apex, the dorsum is slightly shaded with umber-brown. Eap. al. 
9 mm. Hind luincfs and cilia bluish grey. Abdomen grey. Leys 
1897.] VraST-lNDiAN MlCEO-LBPltoOPTSEAk 87 
whitish ochreous, shaded and banded on the tarsi with umber- 
brown. 
Tape, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 1100 ft., XI. — 
Rendall). Unique. 
78. Ypsolophus? steatelltjs, sp. n. 
Antennce biserrate towards th« apex ; fuscous, annulate with 
pale cinereous, basal and adjacent joints brownish ochreous. 
Paliji (missing). Head cinereous. Thorax leaden grey above, 
brownish ochreous at the sides, with two lateral ferruginous spots 
posteriorly. Fore whigs brownish ochreous on the costal half, the 
dorsal half dark ferruginous blending to tawny fuscous ; on the 
pale costal half the ground-colour blends and varies with many 
different tints, a shining leaden-grey suffusion along its lower edge 
reaching nearly to the apex is repeated near the base of the 
costa — the costa itself (especially on its outer half) becoming pale 
rusty brown rather than brownish ochreous ; the dark dorsal half 
also varies in tone and colour, its upper edge (which although 
nearly straight is slightly indented a little beyond the middle) is 
rich reddish ferruginous throughout, blending to dark tawuy 
fuscous along the dorsum and becoming even darker towards the 
termen and tornus ; a leaden-grey line around the apex and 
termen is followed by the parti-coloured cilia, which are dark 
tawny grey on their dorsal half with thi-ee pale ochreous spots 
along their base and pale brownish ochreous on their costal 
half with rusty-brown spots near their base. Exp. al. 16 mm. 
Hind wings darlt tawny grey, semitransparent with bluish re- 
flections towards the base ; cilia subiridescent bluish, or brownish 
grey. Abdomen bronzy grey. Legs brownish grey, with an seneous 
tinge externally. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Teinidad {P. W. Urich). Unique. 
The palpi are unfortunately missing in the type, but I have 
little doubt that it is a true Yi^solophus allied to jlavivittellus, 
Clem., with which it agrees in neuration and general appearance. 
25. Lathontogbkus, g. n. 
(\a0w)^ = unknown ; 7e>'os=genus.) 
Type, Lathontogenus adustipennis, Wlsm. 
Antennce f, uniserrate. 
Labial palpi recurved, divergent ; apical joint less than half as 
long as the second, acute : second joint laterally compressed, 
smooth beneath, clothed on the upper side towards its apex with a 
somewhat triangular tuft, which does not extend to the basal half. 
Maxillary palpi distinct. 
Haustellum rather short. 
Ocelli obsolete. 
88 LOED WALSINGHAM ON [Jail. 19, 
Head and tfwrax smooth. 
Fore luhigs narrow, elongate, apex not depressed, termen 
oblique and evenly rounded, not sinuate beneath apex, tornus 
not apparent. Neuration: 11 veins (2 and 3 coincident); 7 and 8 
stalked out of 6, 7 to costa slightly before apex ; 4 approximated 
to 2 + 3; 1 furcate at base. 
Hind wings as broad as the fore wings ; costa sinuate from 
before middle, clothed almost fi*om the base with cilia of even 
length ; strongly and angularly excavate beneath the produced 
apex, tornus rounded, dorsinn straight, abdominal angle developed. 
Neuration : 8 veins ; 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 5 approximated 
to 6, 6 and 7 somewhat approximated. 
Legs : hind tibiae with long hairs above and shorter ones beneath. 
Allied to 31eso2)hlej)s, lib., but differing in neuration and in the 
structure of the palpi. I have been unable to refer this form to 
any of the genera proposed by Chambers. 
79. Lathontogenus adustipeistsis, sp. n. 
Antennae whitish ochreous, faintly annulated. Palpi whitish 
ochreous, the second joint reddish brown externally except the 
outer end of the fringe on its upper side. Head and thorax whitish 
ochreous. Fore luings whitish ochreous at the base and a little 
way along the costa (with the exception of a narrow fa\^u-brown 
line along the extreme margin from the base), blending into pale 
fawn-ochreous over the remaining wing-surface ; an umber-brown 
shade extending from before the middle of the costa to the apex ; 
three faint fawn-grey spots are visible, tlie first on the middle of 
the fold, the third at the end of the cell, and the second equi- 
distant between them on the cell ; cilia fawn-ochreous. Exp. al. 
10-18 mm. Hind ivings and cilia grey. Abdomen pale fawn- 
ochreous. Legs pale fawn-ochreous, tarsal joints transversely 
shaded. 
Ihjije, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 27 IV.-5 V. {Gudmann, Hede- 
inann) ; St. Thomas, 11-19 III. (Gudnutnn, Hedemann) ; Grenada 
(wdndward side, Balthazar, 250 ft., 15-27 lA^. ; leeward side, Mount 
Gay Estate, 300 ft., 25-30 ^^H1.—H. H. Smith). 
The specimens from St. Thomas and St. Croix are uniformly 
smaller (10-13 mm.) than those from Grenada (14-18 mm.) ; but 
I consider them to be the same species. 
III. (ECOPHORID^. 
26. Ethmia, Hb. 
Type, Tinea aurifluella, Hb. {=.*pyrausta, Hb.). 
Ethmia, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 163 (1822 ?). 
n. ^
.= PsECADiA, Hb. (1826) ; =Asestciiia, Hb. (1826) ; 
—DiSTRTMNiA, Hb. (1826) ; =Melanoleuca, Stph. (1829) ; 
1897.] WEST-IIfDIAjr MIOBO-LEPIDOJIEBA.. 8^ 
= ^viA, Dp. (1836) ; = Ghaltbe, Dp. (1836) ; =Azims, 
Wkr. (1863). 
80. EtHMIA CONF0SELLA, Wkr. 
■= STSIGOSELLA, Wkl'.' ; 11. Sjn.=IJSrGBICELLA, Mschl. 
Hyponomeuta confusellus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXVIIl. 
531 (1863)'. Gnjptolechia strigosella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. las. B. M. 
XXIX. 710 (1864) -. Psecadia ingricella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. JSTat. 
Ges. XV. 343, 354, (PI.) fig. 19 (1890) \ Psecadia {Gnjptolechia) 
strigosa, Ckrl. Jr. Inst. Jamaica, 1. 33 (1891) '. Psecadia confusella, 
Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 527, 546 (1892) '. Psecadia ingri- 
cella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 527, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hab. West Indies — Cuba (Tnng Mus.): Jamaica *■'•'', 19-21 
Vll. ; Hatti (Port-au-Prince, en'cl. 6 VI. — Gudmann); Sa.-^ 
DoMlJiTGo''^'' ; PoBTORiCO ^ • '^ ; St. Croix, 6 V. (Giiclmann) ; 
Dominica'; G-eenada (windwai-d side, Balthazar, 250 ft. 5-30 
IV. ; leeward side. Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 1-5 X.—H. H. 
Smith). Colombia — Bogota '. 
81. EtHMIA StTBSlMILIS, sp. n. 
Antennce stout ; dull greyish cinereous. Palpi smooth, re- 
curved to the vertex, the apical joint shorter than the second ; 
dirty whitish, with a greyish spot externally near the end of each 
joint. Head and thorax smoky whitish. Fore wings smoky 
whitish, with greyish-fuscous spots ; a broken greyish-fuscous 
shade extends from near the base to beyond the middle 
of the costa, a series of spots and shades of a similar colour 
extending from before the middle of the costa to the dorsum 
beyond its middle in an outwardly curved and broken line ; 
between this and the base are about ten greyish-fuscous spots 
irregularly scattered along and below the fold, two near the 
base on either side of the fold being somewhat darker than the 
others ; beyond the fasciaform central shade are several ill-defined 
greyish-fuscous markings above and below the outer end of the 
cell, followed by a marginal series of about six rather darker spots 
not extending along the base of the costal cilia ; a greyish-fuscous 
shade runs along the middle of the smoky-whitish cilia. Exp. al. 
15 mm. Hind wings pale stone-grey, somewhat darlvened towards 
their outer extremities ; cilia smoky whitish. Abdomen stoue- 
grey. Hhid tibice smoky whitish, somewhat speckled and shaded. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica, 17 VII. {Cocherell). Unique. 
This species differs from Ethmia confusella, Wkr., in the shape 
of the fore wings, which are somewhat squarer at the apex ; the 
series of marginal dots do not revert along the costa as in that 
species, and, moreover, the spots and shades, although of the same 
colour, are not conspicuously arranged longitudinally, which is one 
of the marked features of the numerous forms of that insect. In 
size it is, perhaps, even smaller than ingricella, Mschl., which I am 
compelled to regard as a small form of Walker's species. 
90 liOED WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
82. Ethjiia joviella, sp. n. 
Antennce brownish cinereous. Paljpi white, slightly dusky at 
the extreme apex. Head and thorax white ; tegulae \A'ith a black 
spot anteriorly. Fore luings white, with a slight brownish- 
cinereous shade along the costal portion ; a large quadrate blackish 
spot at the base of the costa extends narrowly along the extreme 
margin to a black spot at one-sixth from the base ; a second black 
spot lies a little before the middle of the wing at the upper edge 
of the cell, and there are three black spots below the fold, one at 
about one sixth, one at about one-half, and one below these two 
nearer to the hrst than to the second ; just above the outer end of 
the fold opposite the tornus is another spot, less black, more 
inclining to fuscous ; cilia white. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind wings 
greyish brown ; cilia white. Abdomen greyish brown, shaded with 
ochreous above at the base ; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs 
whitish, tarsi faintly mottled. 
Type, 6 Mus. A¥lsm. 
Huh. "West Indies — Grenada (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 
leeward side, 1-5 X. — //. H. Smith). Unique. 
83. Ethmia paucella, Wkr. 
Hyponomeuta paucellus, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 
530-1 (1863) \ Psecadia paucella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
527, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hal. West Indies — San Domingo ''^ 
84. Ethmia notatella, Wkr. 
= XANTRORBHOA, Ti." 
Psecadia notatella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIIT. 536 
(1863) \ Psecadia xanthorrhoa, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 
234-6, PI. III. 71 (1877) '' ; Btl. Ent. Mo. Mag. XIX. 107 (1882) ' ; 
Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. XXX. 65 (1887)'; Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. 
Ges. XV. 341, 354 (1890) \ Psecadia notatella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 528, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — San Domingo ^''^; Pobtobico "•''^ ; 
CUEA^AO''^ 
85. Ethmia abeaxasella, Wkr. 
= AVREOAPICELLA, Mschl.' 
Psecadia ahraxasella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXX. 1016-7 
(1864) \ Psecadia aureoapiceUa, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 
341-2, 354 (1890)-. Psecadia ahraxasella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 528, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — Cuba {Tring Mus.); Jamaica', 17 VII.; 
San Domingo ^'^ ; PoETOEico ^^ 
86. Ethmia exornata, Z. 
Psecadia exornata, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 238-40, PI. III. 
73 (1877)'; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 528, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — Cuba'-. Peeu — Chauchamavo'-. 
1897.] WBST-IS-DlAlSr MICBO-LEPIDOJTERA. 91 
87. Ethmia gelidblla, Wkr. 
Tamarrha gelidella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. lus. B.M. XXIX. 817 
(1864) \ Psecaclia (jelkUlla, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 528, 
546 (1892) \ 
Hah, West Indies — Jamaica '-^ 
88. Ethmia kiebti, MscU. 
Psecaclia Idrhiji, Mschl. Ab. Senck, Nat. Ges. XV. 342-3, 354 
(1890)^ ; WJsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, b2S, 546 (1892) =. 
Hah. West Indies — Poktobico^-^ 
IV. BLASTOBASID.?:. 
27. Blastobasis, Z. 
Type, (Eco-phora (Scythris) j)liyciclella, Ti. 
Blastobasis, Z. Lin. Ent. X. 171 (1855) ; Hein. Schm. Deutsch. 
Tin. 387 (1870). 
Zeller separated phycidella, Z., and rosciclella, Z., frcim Butalis 
under the name Blastobasis, but giving only a brief indication of 
its characters. Heinemann constituted phycidella the type, and 
described the genus in detail, but with hardly sufficient precision 
for comparison with other genera now known to occur. It may 
be well to indicate the characters peculiar to the genus Blastobasis, 
remarking that those species which have been placed in it in the 
North American lists do not conform in neiu'ation. 
Antennce : 6 with pecten, strongly notched beyond the basal 
joint, uniciliate 5. 
Labial palpi recurved, of approximately equal thickness through- 
out, second joint scarcely longer than the apical. 
Maxillary palpi short, projecting. 
Haustellum long, well developed. 
Head and thorax smooth. 
Fore luings elongate, lanceolate, somewhat widened at the base, 
acutely pointed. Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. 
Hind luings with abdominal angle strongly developed, thence 
evenly tapering to the subacute apex, costa much straighter than 
dorsum. Neuration : 7 veins (4 absent) ; 5 and 3 stalked (some- 
times connate). 
Abdomen somewhat flattened. 
Legs : hind tibiae hairy above. 
89. Blastobasis aegillacba, sp. n. 
Antennoi fawn-grey (a pecten on the basal joint beneath). Palpi 
smooth, evenly curved ; fawn-grey. Head fawn-grey. Tliorax 
fawn-grey, M'ith a slight brownish tinge. Fore luings fawn-grey, 
with a brownish suffusion and some greyish-fuscous mottling 
around the apex and apical margin, a small blackish spot on the 
cell a little before and above the middle of the wing, from which 
9^ LOUD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
an ashy zigzag shade runs to the dorsal margin in the form of the 
letter Z ; two similar spots lie at the end of the cell, the upper 
one in the same line as the first, the lower one a little beyond and 
below it ; cilia dust-grey. E.tji. al. 14 mm. Hind ivings pale 
brownish grey ; cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen 
brownish grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous. 
Tyjje, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Ckoix, 7 Y. (Gudmami); St. Thomas, 
15 III.-12 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. 
Bred by Baron von Hedemann from larvae feeding in the 
flowers of a Blsonia. All the specimens are females, but I have 
little doubt that the reception of the male will prove that they are 
referred rightly to this genus. 
90. Blastobasis guexadensis, sp. n. 
Antemnxe pale cinei'eous. Palpi pale cinereous, shaded externally 
with fuscous. Head and thorax greyish, with a slight ochreous 
tinge. Fore ivings smoky greyish, paler at the base, the darker 
shading inclining to form longitudinal lines on the outer half of 
the wing ; NVith the usual three spots dark fuscous, the first a little 
above and before the middle, the two outer corresponding to the 
apical and tornal angles of the cell ; cilia at tornus inclining to 
ochreous, about apex darker. Exj). al. c? 12 ; $ 15 mm. Hind 
wings greyish, with a slight bronzy sheen ; cilia inclining to 
ochreous. yl6cZoHt<?Ji greyish fuscous ; anal tuft paler, i/f^s greyish 
fuscous, the long hairs on the hind tibiae inclining to ochreous. 
Tijjje, d ? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Dominica (Druce) ; Grenada (Balthazar, 
250 ft., windward side, 5 IV.-l Y. ; Mount Gray Estate, 300 ft., 
leeward side, 25-30 VIII. ; 1-5 X. — H. H. Smith). Five specimens. 
The specimen from Dominica is not in good condition, but it 
appears to belong to this species. 
91. Blastobasis subolivacea, sp. n. 
Antennce pale cinereous. Palpi cinereous, shaded with fuscous 
externally. Head and thorax cinereous, the latter slightly shaded 
with fuscous. Fore wings olive-grey with a slight gi-eenish tinge, 
especially on the basal half, shading to brownish externally ; a 
single black dot before and above the middle is followed by the 
usual two, the one at the apex and the other at the tornus of cell; 
costa narrowly inclining to ochreous ; cilia greyish, with a slight 
ochreous tinge at tornus. Ex2J. al. 12 mm. Hind wings bronzy 
brownish, thinly scaled between the upper veins in the c? , and 
causing the veins to appear darker, thus giving the wings a 
streaked appearance ; cilia pale greyish ochreous. Abdomen 
brownish grey ; anal tuft paler. Legs cinereous ; hind tarsi faintly 
grey-spotted. 
Tyj)e, c? Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 7 III.-9 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Two specimens. 
1897.] WEST-INDI,UT MICRO-IiEPIDOPTEBA. 93 
92. Blastobasis teiangttlaris, sp. n. 
A^itennce pale fawn-ochreous. Palpi darlt fuscous, the tips of the 
joints paler. Head cinereous ; face slightly ochreous. Thorax 
dusky cinereous. Fo7-e wings dusky cinereous ; the costa narrowly 
suhochreous throughout, the usual three spots almost obscured by 
the dusky ground-colour, but traceable in the ordinary positions — 
the first before and slightly above the middle, the other two corre- 
sponding to the apical and tornal angles of the cell (there is a slight 
sprinkling of scattered subochreous scales over the wing-surface in 
a bred specimen) ; cilia cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge. 
Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hind ivings thinly scaled between the upper 
veins in the 6 ; brownish fuscous, with a faint purplish gloss ; 
cilia inclining to ochreous. Abdomen brownish fuscous ; anal 
tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous ; hind tarsal joints iuclining to 
ochreous. 
Type, (S Mus. Hedemann ; 2 Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 11 III.-15 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Two specimens. 
Bred by Baron von Hedemann from a black larva feeding on a 
low plant which was not identified. 
The 2 has the hind wings much paler and less marked, and of 
a greyer tinge ; the anal tuft is ochreous, as in the d . 
93. Blastobasis gracilis, sp. n. 
Antennce and 2^<^h^^ bone-colour, the latter shghtly shaded ex- 
ternally. Head and thorax bone-colour. Fore wings bone-colour, 
with a slight vinous tinge, sparsely sprinkled and mottled with 
pale brownish fuscous ; the usual three dots are fairly conspicuous, 
but the first of these, scarcely before the middle, is preceded by a 
slight indication of another spot immediately above the middle of 
the fold ; the termen shows a very faint indication of a broken 
fuscous line ; cilia bone-grey. Ex]}. al. 11 mm. Hind ivings 
shining pale bone-grey ; ciUa with a slight vinous gloss. Abdomen 
bone-grey ; anal tuft bone-colour. Legs pale cinereous ; hind 
tibi39 slightly shaded externally. 
Type, cS $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Gkbkada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 5-27 IV. — H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 
28. PiGKiTiA, Clem. 
94. PiGRITIA ? BIATOMELLA, Sp. H. 
Antennce stoutish, greyish ochreous, the basal joint with a thick 
tuft of mixed black and ochreous scales beneath. Palpi fuscous, 
sometimes ochreous at the junction of the second and terminal 
joints, internally pale ochreous. Head ochreous, much mixed with 
black. Fore tvings smoky at the base, pale greyish ochreous beyond, 
more or less suffused with fuscous, with a small black dot at the 
end of the cell, a second near the dorsum immediately below it ; 
cilia pale greyish. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale 
94 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
greyish. Abdomen greyish ; anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs pale 
ochreous. 
Type, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. "West Indies — St. Thomas, 15 111.-14 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Eight specimens. 
95. PiGEITIA MEDIOCBIS, sp. n. 
Antevnce greyish, with a pecten at the base in the c? . Paljpi 
very slender, recurved, greyish, with whitish lines along them 
above and beneath. Bead grey. Thorax and /ore luings olivaceous 
ochreous, the latter with a few greyish-fuscous scales sprinkled 
over the dorsum and the outer end of the cell ; with a narrow line 
of the same immediately below the costa reaching from the base 
to half the wing-length, a line of similar scales runs along the 
termen, sprinkling the paler cilia ; with a small dot before the anal 
angle. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hindivings and cilia pale grey. Abdomen 
pale olivaceous ochreous, tending to greyish posteriorly. Legs 
cinereous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies— St. Croix, 26 IV.-6 V. {Hedemann); 
St. Thomas, 12 III. {Gudmann). Six specimens. 
29. Attximobasis, Wlsm. 
96. Atjximobasis instjlaris, sp. n. 
Antenna; greyish ; the basal joint with a closely-packed shield of 
scales. Palpi porrect, scarcely recurved, greyish fuscous externally, 
an ashy ring around the end of the second joint. Head ashy grey. 
Thorax greyish fuscous ; the tegulse paler. Fore ivings pale greyish 
fuscous, with an angular spot at the base of the cosra, ochreous 
edged with dark fuscous ; before the middle of the wing is an 
outwardly angulated dark fuscous band, and beyond the middle, at 
about one-third from the apex, a line of dark fuscous mottlings, 
forming a second band much less conspicuous than the first ; 
cilia ashy grey. Hxp). al. 12 mm. Hhul ivings pale grey ; cilia 
with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen and legs ashy grey ; anal 
tuft ochreous. 
Ttjjye, d Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 18 V. {Pontopipidan) -, St. 
Thomas, 6 III- 15 IV. {Gudmann, Hedemann). 
This species differs from variolata,'W\s,m., in the less attenuated 
form of the hind wings, which have also a more obtuse apex. 
97. AUXIMOBASIS TAEIOLATA, Sp. n. 
Antennce with a distinct basal pecten; cinereous. Palpi on the 
outer sides brownish, with a pale baud around the junction of the 
second and apical joints. Head ashy grey. Thorax pale brownish. 
Fo7'e ivings ashy grey, with pale brownish mottlings and dark 
fuscous spots and speckles, these latter consist of two ill-defined 
1897.] WEST-IlfDIAX MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 95 
spots, ofie on each side of the fold before its middle, the upper 
one further removed from the base than the lower : a larger ill- 
defined spot on the middle of the dorsum, with a smaller one on 
the costa a Uttle before it, between these a black dot on the cell, 
followed by some black speckling and two smaller parallel black 
dots at the end of the cell ; cilia ashy grey. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. 
Hind luings pale grey ; cilia with a shght brownish tinge. Abdo- 
men grey. Lecjs cinereous, banded at the sides with greyish 
fuscous. 
Tijpe, d 9- Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 8 VI. {Pontoj^pidan) ; St. 
Thomas, 11 III.-18 IV. {Gudmann, Hedanann). Twelve speci- 
mens. 
This species differs from insxdaris, Wlsm., in the more acute 
and attenuated apex of the hind wings. 
98. AlJXlMOBASIS PEESIJULELLA, Wlsm. 
Auocimohasis persimilella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 534-5, 
547,P1.XLI. 9 a-c (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent '. 
99. AtJXIMOBASIS BEEVIPALPELIiA, Sp. n. 
Antennce cinereous, basal joint hoary. Palpi cinereous, stained 
with fuscous externally, except at the tips of the second and 
apical joints. Head and iliorax hoary grey. Fore ivimjs hoary 
grey, sprinkled with fuscous scales ; an ill-defined pale fuscous 
band, slightly before the middle of the wing, is angulated outwardly 
on the fold and is diffused outwards, leaving the basal portion 
somewhat paler than the apical ; the usual pair of fuscous dots 
are adjacent to the end of the cell (the first dot usual in these 
genera is not visible in all specimens) ; a slight broken fuscous 
shade follows the margin of the wing around the apex and base of 
the hoary speckled cilia. Exp. al. 12-13 mm. Hind wings shining 
brownish grey ; ciha scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish grey. 
Legs : hind tibiae and tarsi cinereous, shaded externally with faint 
bands of fuscous. 
Type, d 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 
leeward side, 25-30 VIII. ; 1-5 X. — H. H. Smith). Eour specimens. 
Scarcely distinguishable from persimilella, Wlsm., except by the 
slightly broader wings and by the distinctly shorter palpi. 
100. AtrXIMOBASIS PIAVICILIATA, sp. n. 
Antennce dirty whitish, the basal joint enlarged with a strong 
pecten. Palpi smooth, erect, the apical joint nearly as long as the 
second; hoary whitish. Head and thorax smooth ; hoary whitish. 
Fore ivings hoary white, minutely grey-speckled, without markings ; 
cilia pale yellowish. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind wings very pale 
96 LORD WAXSixGHLVM OX [Jan. 19, 
grey, with pale yellowish cilia. Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs 
whitish. 
Type, d" Mils. Hedemaun. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 21-23 III. (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Two specimens. 
101. AUXIMOBASIS CONSTATS, Sp. n. 
Antennee smoky cinereous. Palpi: apical joint scarcely more 
than half as long as the second joint ; hoary cinereous on their 
inner sides, with a smoky shade externnlly, except at the apex of 
the apical and second joints. Head and thorax griseous. Fore 
icings whitish, M-ith minute smoky speckling ; the costa near the 
base and along the middle with a smoky shade, which also some- 
what suffuses the cilia to the apex ; the usual three dots are small 
but clearly defined, the first before and slightly above the middle, 
the two outer corresponding to the apical and tornal angles of 
the cell ; a series of less clearly defined dark smoky spots on the 
margin on either side of the apex defining the outline of the cilia ; 
cilia with a slight ochreous tuige about the tornus. Eap. al. 
10-12 mm. Hind wings shining yellowish grey ; cilia also slightly 
tinged with ochreous. Abdomen greyish cinereous. Legs pale 
cinereous. 
Type, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 9-27 III. {GudwMnn, Hede- 
mann). Three specimens, 
30. Iconisma, g. n. 
(eiKO)'t(T/xa^a copy.) 
Type, Iconisma macrocera, Wlsm. 
Antennee with strong pecten, without a notch in S , fully as 
long as the fore wings, narrowed immediately beyond the basal 
joint and somewhat flattened and tseniaform beyond it. 
Maxillary ptalpi short. 
Labial palpi slender, projecting, apical joint slightly shorter 
than the second. 
Head and thorax smooth. 
Fore wings elongate-lanceolate, narrow at the base, somewhat 
acute. Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. 
Hind wings with the abdominal angle well developed, narrow, 
tapering rapidly to an acute point. Neuration: 8 veins, 3 separate, 
4 and 5 stalked. 
Abdomen somewhat flattened. 
Legs : hind tibiae hairy above. 
So far as neuration is concerned, the European species Blasto- 
basis anthophaga, Stgr., should be placed in this genus ; but the 
form of the antennae differs materially in not possessing the tsenia- 
form character which distinguishes the type, although it agrees 
■with it in having no notch. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICBO-LEPIDOPTEKA. 97 
102. ICONISMA MACBOCEBA, SJJ. n. 
Antennce with the basal joint dirty whitish, brownish cinereous 
beyond. Pal^i dull whitish, shaded with fuscous at the sides 
except at the tips of the second and apical joints. Head dull 
whitish. Tliorax hoary whitish. Fore ivings hoary whitish, with 
three elongate fuscous streaks, the first from the base running 
below the costa to one-third, the margin above it being also 
shghtly shaded with fuscous ; the second also from the base 
following the fold to the dorsum ; the third along the outer 
portion of the cell, commencing slightly before the middle of the 
wing and ending with the cell ; some scattered fuscous spriakUng 
around the margins extends into the cilia, which have a slight 
ochreous tinge except along the costa, where they are whitish. 
Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind luings pale greyish ; cilia tinged with 
ochreous. Abdomen greyish ochreous. Lec/s pale cinereous. 
Tyi^e, 6 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 15 III.-8 IV. (Giidmann, 
Hedemann). Three specimens. 
V. XTLOEYCTID^. 
31. Glyphidoceba, Wlsm. 
103. Gl-TPHIDOCEEA ATJDAX, Wlsm. 
GlypMdocera audax, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 531-2, 547, 
PI. XLI. 8rt-c (1892) >. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Vincent \ 
104. Gltphidoceba dominicella, sp. n. 
Antenna' pale fawn-brown. Palpi., head, and thorax fawn-grey. 
Fore wings faMU-grey, sparsely sprinkled with olive-brown ; with 
two olive-brown spots on the disc, one at its outer extremity, 
the other halfway between this and the base ; cilia fawn-grey 
with a slight ochreous tinge. Exp. al. 15 mm. Hind wings and 
cilia brownish olivaceous. Abdomen brownish oHvaceous. Legs 
scarcely paler than the hind wings. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— Dominica (Point Michell, 29 V.). Two 
specimens. 
This species differs from audax, Wlsm., in having the base of 
the costa of the fore wings less abruptly arched, and in the hind 
wings being more opaque and having paler cilia. 
105. Gltphidoceba becticostella, sp. n. 
Antennce strongly notched in the S beyond the basal joint, 
serrate towards the apex ; ochreous beneath, shaded with greyish 
fuscous above. Palpi strongly recurved, laterally divergent ; 
greyish fuscous. Head and face greyish fuscous. Thorax greyish 
Pboc. Zooi. Soc— 1897, No. VII. 7 
98 LORD WALSItfGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
fuscous with a slight purplish tinge. Fore wings greyish fuscous 
with a slight purplish tinge ; a very faint indication of a dark spot 
at the end of the cell ; cilia the same. Exp. al. 23-25 mm. Hind 
luings and cilia greyish brown. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs 
greyish, spurs and tarsi slightly paler. 
Tijj)e, 6 $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 1 IV.-4 V. ; Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 
25 VIII.-IO IX.— ZT. H. Smith). Seven specimens. 
This species differs from audax, "Wlsm., in the absence of a 
distinct humeral angle on the costa at the base of the fore wings. 
This seems to be also absent in the female of audax, and it is 
possible that this may turn out to be a characteristic of the females 
of both species, or that the single female of audax has been wrongly 
identified, but I have not sufficient material to decide this point. 
32. Ant^oteicha, Z. 
106. Ant^oteicha stjffumiqata, sp. n. 
AntenncB smoky white. Palpi recurved, slender, apical joint 
nearly as long as the second ; ^\•hite. Head and face white. 
Thorax smoky white in Eront, paler posteriorly. Fore wings 
elongate, subovate ; shining white, the extreme costa delicately 
shaded with smoky brown and also the dorsal third of the wing 
from the base below the fold and beyond it to the termen above 
the tornus ; cilia white. Exp. al. 16-20 mm. Hind wings and 
cilia pale smoky greyish ; d with long brush of greyish hairs from 
base of costa. Abdomen smoky white. Legs white. 
Type, S $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15 III.-30 IV. ; Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., leeward side, 
1-5 X. — H. H. Smith). Six specimens. 
107. Ant.5;oteicha tibialis, Z. 
Antceotriclia tibialis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 307-9, 
PI. III. 90 (1877) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Teinidad {Schaus, Urich; Port of Spain, 
Hart). Beazil (?) \ 
108. Ant^oteicha geiseana, F. 
= * WALCHiANA, Z. (ncc Cram.) ^ 
Pyralis griseana, P. Ent. Syst. 111.(2)265. No. 96 (1794)' 
Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 352 (1806)". Stenoma griseanum, Z. Is. 
1839, 195'. Antceotricha ivalcliiana, Z. Lin. Ent. IX. 391-3, 
PL III. 29-30 (1854) \ Pyralis griseana, Z. Lin. Ent. IX. 393 
(1854)*. Antceotricha walcUana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXIX. 
773 (1864) ". Antceotricha griseana, Z. (partim) Hor. Soc. Ent. 
Eoss. XIII. 315 (1877) ^ Wlsm. & Drnt. Merton Eules 12 
(1896)*. 
1897.] WBST-TNDIAN MIORO-IiEPIDOPTEBA. 99 
Hob. West Indies ("Americse meridionalis Insulis")^'" — 
Trinidad (5'c/iatts). Catenae (il/i«s. TF/s)».). Brazil" — Cameta\ 
The specimens which Zeller described in the ' Isis ' as Stenoma 
(fi'iseanum, Y. (?), and again ia the ' Linnsea Entomologica ' as 
Aniceotricha ivalchiana. Cram., are before me. They are certainly 
not ivalchiana, Cram., which was redescribed by Walker as Grypto- 
lechia lativittella. In the 'Horae ' Zeller revived Fabricius's name for 
still another species from Chiriqui with greenish markings towards 
the apex. If he Avere justified in doing this, then the species 
known as ivalchiana (Zeller, nee Cramer) would be nameless. 
Fabricius's description is hardly precise enough to enable one to 
identify a species of this group with certainty, but there appears 
to be no evidence to prove that Zeller was wrong in his first con- 
ception of griseana, F. Moreover I now record Zeller's original 
f/riseana from Trinidad, which agrees well with Fabricius's locality 
" Americse meridionalis Insulis ;" and as Zeller, in 1839, limited the 
name to this form, I think the concluding sentence of paragraph 
15 of the Eules compiled by the German Zoological Society may 
be held to apply with the addition of the words in brackets : " In 
doubtful cases the decision of the author who makes the [Jii'sf] 
separation [o/* restriction] shall be followed." 
[I add the synonymy of the species not oceun-ing in the West Indies, 
referred to above, and have proposed a new name for Zeller's latest conception 
oi griseana, F. 
Ant^otriciia walchiana, Cram. & StoU. 
(nee WALCHIANA, Z.) ; n. syn. = LATIVITTELLA, Wkr. 
Phalcena {Tortrix) walchiana, Grain. & StoU, Pap. Exot. IV. 191, 252 (Essai 
Svst. Lp.), 27, PI. 384. R (1782) '. Tortrix? walchiana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. 
B.M. XXVIII. 325 (1863) -. CryptoUcUa lativittella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. 
XXIX. 720-1 (1864) ^. 
Hah. Venezuela'; Surinam ^'^j Brazil ' (Espiritu Santo, Schmidt; Cor- 
corado, Schaus ; and Sta. Catherina, Mus. Wls7n.). 
Ant^oteicha zelleri, Wlsm. & Drnt. 
= * GBISBANA, Ti? 
AntcBotricha griseana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XIII. 315-6, PI. IV. 95 
1877) \ Ant<potricha zelleri, Wlsm. & Drnt. Merton Eules 12 (1896) 2. 
Hah. Panama— Chiriqui ^] 
109. AlSTTiEOTRICHA ? SINITATA, F. 
= § DENTELLA, F.^ 
Alucita clentella, F. Ent, Syst. HI. (2) 343. No. 49 (1794)'. 
Ypsolophus sinuatus, F. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 509. No. 20 (1798) ^ 
Phalcma {Alucita) dentella, Turton, Syst. Nat. III. 383 (1806) \ 
" clentella. 49. A. alls obscure cinereis : vitta media dentata 
fusca. 
" Corpus parvum, cinereum. Alse obscure cinerese vitta lata, 
interne dentata in medio alse. Pedes albi. 
" Habitat in Americas Insulis, Dom . v. Eohr." ' = West Indies '"'. 
7* 
100 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
33. DiASTOMA, Mschl. 
110. DiASTOMA SQUAMOSA, WlsiH. 
Diastoma squamosa, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 524, 546 
(1892) \ 
Hob. West Indies— St. Vincent \ 
34. Anadasmtts, g. n. 
(ayaSaffnos = a division.) 
Type, Criiptolecliia soraria, Z. 
AntenncB |, basal joint somewhat enlarged, without pecten ; d 
biciliate (2). 
Labial palpi strongly recurved, second joint thickened, with 
appressed scales beneath, apical joint shorter than the second. 
Maxillary palpi well developed, appressed to the haustellum. 
Haustellum thickly scaled. 
Head with appressed scaling, side tufts spreading, margined 
with hairs posteriorly. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore wings : costa arched at the base, thence almost straight to 
the slightly depressed and rounded apex, termen almost perpen- 
dicular, tornus rounded. Neuration : 12 veins, all separate, 8 to 
costa, 5 approximated to 4, and 6 to 7, 2 from near lower angle. 
Hind wings broader than the fore wings, costa hardly depressed 
beyond middle (without long hair tuft in d ), apex rounded, 
slightly sinuate beneath apex, thence evenly rounded ; cilia short. 
Neuration : 8 veins, 6 and 7 very closely approximated towards 
origin, 3 and 4 almost connate, 1 b furcate at base. 
Abdomen rather stout. 
Legs : hind tibisB clothed with short rough scales. 
Closely allied to Oonioterma, Wlsm., from which it differs in 
vein 8 of the fore wings attaining the costa. 
111. Anadasmtts immundus, Z. 
Cryptolechia immunda, Z. Lin. Ent. IX. 360-1 (1854) ^ ; Wkr. 
Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXIX. 711 (1864) = ; Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 
XIII. 259 (1877) ^ 
Hab. West Indies — Tbinidad (/Sc^aws). Beazil' ^ 
112. Anadasmus albanus, F. 
= § LACTEEZZA, F.^ ; n. syn. = tenera, Z. 
Tinea lacteella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 313. No. 116 (1794)'. 
Pyralis albana, F. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 476. No. 31-2 (1798) ^ 
Cryptolechia tenera, Z. Lin. Ent. IX. 364-5(1854)% X. 153-4 
(1855)^ Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 259, 263-4 (^1877)°. 
Hab. West Indies ( = in Americas Insulis) -. S. America ' — 
Panama, Chiriqui ' ; Venezuela, La Guayra * ; Cayenne (Mus. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LBPIDOPTEEA. 101 
Wlsm.); BuAZiL— Para' {Mus. Wlsm.) ; Santa Catherina {Mus. 
Wlsm.). 
Fabricius probably changed the name lacteella to albana because 
Schiffermiiller had already published a Tinea lactella. Zeller 
(I. c. No. 3) considered tenera distinct from Fabricius's species, 
principally from the antennae not agreeing with the original 
description (I. c. No. 1), but this was emended {I. c. No. 2); and 
Zeller, while not admitting that tenera was a synonym of albana 
in the ' Horse,' was evidently coming round to the opinion that his 
species was not distinct from that of Fabricius. I have a very 
large amount of material (mostly undescribed) belonging to this 
family, and the only species to which Fabricius's description can be 
applied is tenera, Z. ; I am therefore not disposed to maintain 
these two names as representing distinct species, 
35. GONIOTERMA, g. n, 
{yiovia = angle ; rep/xa = a boundary.) 
Type, Phalcena (Tortrix) burmanniana, Cram. & StoU. 
Antenna} |, basal joint somewhat enlarged, without pecten ; 
d biciliate (1|). 
Labial palpi strongly recurved, second joint thickened with 
appressed scales beneath, apical joint shorter than the second. 
Maxillary palpi well developed, appressed to the haustellum. 
Haustellum thickly scaled. 
Head smooth, but with lateral hair-tufts often meeting above it. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore wings : costa arched at the base, thence straight almost to 
the apex, which is slightly depressed and rounded, termen almost 
perpendicular, tornus rounded. Neuration : 12 veins all separate, 
8 to termen below apex, 5 approximated to 4, and 6 to 7, 2 from 
near lower angle. 
Hind ivings broader than the fore wings, costa depressed beyond 
middle (without long hair-tuft in 6 ), evenly rounded from the 
apex to the abdominal angle, cilia short. Neuration : 8 veins, 6 and 
7 closely approximated, 3 and 4 separate but closely approximated, 
1 b furcate at base. 
Abdomen rather stout. 
Legs : hind tibiae clothed with short rough scales. 
Allied to Anadasmus, Wlsm., but differing in vein 8 of the fore 
wings attaining the termen. 
113. GONIOTEEMA ISABELLA, F. & E. 
CryptolecUa Isabella, F. & E. Eeise Nov., Lp. PI. 139. 24 
(187o)'. 
Hab. West Indies — Teinidad (ScJiaus). Beazil — Amazons '. 
114. GONIOTBEMA? PAETELLTTM, F. 
Alucita parvella, F. Ent. Syst. HI. (2) 343-4. No. 50 (1794)' 
l02 tout) -W^ALSlNdiitAii oif [Jan. 19, 
Ti7iea parvella, F. Sppl. Syst. Ent. 500. No. 109 (1798) ^ Pha- 
Icena (Alucita) parvella, Turtou, Syst. Nat. III. 383 (1806) '. 
^^parvella. 50. ^. alis obscure cinereis : maculis duabus costa- 
libus fuscis. 
" Statura par\ a pi'aecedentis. Ala iucumbentes, cinereae, maculis 
duabus costalibus I'uscis. 
" Hah. in Americas Insulis, Dom. v. Eohr."' =West Indies ^-^ 
This appears to be allied to hurmanniana, Cram. & Stoll. 
VI. ELACHISTID.E. 
I. GOLEOFHORINJE. 
36. COLEOPHOEA, Hb. 
115. CoLEOPHOEA PULCHEICOENIS, Sp. n. 
Antennce white, beautifully ringed throughout with black ; basal 
joint not tufted. Palpi dusky whitish, shaded externally with 
fawn-colour; second joint with a slight projecting point of scales 
beneath its apex. Head and ilwrax dull fawn-grey. Fore luings 
dull fawn ; with a whitish ochreous costal streak throughout, 
widening towards the apex, and including the oostal cilia ; joining 
this from the end of the cell are three whitish-ochreous streaks 
following the veins ; along the cell from before the middle and 
extending a little beyond its outer end is a longitudinal streak 
composed of mixed whitish-ochreous and black scales running 
parallel with the costa ; beneath it, commencing at the base and 
terminating before the end of the fold, is a similar slender streak 
in which black predominates ; some whitish ochreous scales lie 
around the dorsum and termen at the base of the greyish cilia. 
Exj}. al. 10 mm. Hind wings and cilia dark brownish grey. 
Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish. 
Type^ 5 and case Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 5 V. {Hedemann); St. Thomas, 
12 III.-15 IV. {Gudmanii, Hedemann). Three specimens. 
Case cylindrical, mouth bent over but not projecting beyond the 
level of its lower side, apex triangular, its three angles somewhat 
flattened, the whole dull greyish ochreous ; Jong. 13 mm. 
Bred by Baron von Hedemann, buf> the plant not identified. The 
larva was found on stone fences by Mr. Gudmann. 
This species belongs to the group of troglodgtella, Dp. &c., and 
is very similar to some of the European species ; the mouth of 
the case is, however, more distinctly at a right angle to the case 
itself, and it is someAvhat stouter in proportion to its length. 
116. CoLEOPHOEA PICTICOENIS, Sp. n. 
Antenme stout, shorter than the fore wings ; white, with four 
greyish-fuscous bands towards the apex. Paljn somewhat long 
and slender, slightly recurved, smooth, apical joint slightly shorter 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN m;iceo»-lepidopteeA. 103 
than the second ; white. Bead coppery fawn-brown, with a white 
line on either side running back from the base of the antennae ; 
face and tongue whitish ochreous. Thorax coppery fawn-brown. 
Fore luings coppery fawn-brown, with a shining white streak 
along the costa from the base to the costal cilia, the extreme costa 
edged with bright ochreous throughout, includiug the costal cilia ; 
cilia coppery fawn-brown with a slight ochreous tinge. Exp. al. 
10 mm. Hind wiwjs brownish grey ; cilia coppery fawn. Abdomen 
dark brownish grey, anal tuft subochreous. Legs pale cinereous, 
hind tibiae somewhat clothed above. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 23 V., Gwdmann) ; 
St. Thomas, 10 IV. (Hedemann) ; Gkexada (Balthazar, 250 ft., 
windward side, 15 IV.— /i. H. SmitJi). Tour specimens. 
II. BATRACHEDRIJSM. 
37. Pammeces, Z. 
117. Pammeces lithocheoma, sp. u. 
Antennoi (broken), basal joint elongate, enlarged posteriorly, 
with a distinct long pecten ; stone-white. Palpi long and strongly 
recurved, laterally ascending, second joint rather strongly tufted 
above at its end ; apical joint long and thin, slightly shorter than 
the second joint ; pale stone-grey sprinkled with blackish atoms. 
Head and thorax smooth; stone-grey. Fore ivings stone-grey, 
sprinkled with blackish atoms, especially along the costa ; a minute 
black spot on the middle of the fold, another on the dorsum at its 
outer end, the latter somewhat elongate ; a third minute elongate 
black spot lies at the end of the cell, and a few black dots around 
the termen at the base of the stone-grey cilia. Exp. al. 16 mm. 
Hind luings pale grey; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen stone-grey. 
Legs stone-whitish ; hind tibife haii-y above. 
Type, S Mus. Gudmanu. 
Hab. West Indies — Han Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V. — Gnd- 
mann). Unique. 
The antenna were between two and three times the length of 
the fore wings (Gudmann). 
118. Pammeces? pallida, sp. n. 
Aniennce longer than the fore wings, with a distinct pecten on 
the basal joint ; dirty white. Palpi : the second joint with a sloping 
brush above at its end, apical joint slender, naked, less than half 
the length of the second ; white, with a smoky shade on the second 
joint externally. Head and thorax white. Fore wings shining 
white, with two or three small fuscous spots along the fold, and 
foui* minute fuscous dots on the costa along the base of the smoky 
white cilia. Exp. al 13 mm. Hind wings shining, very pale 
104 LOED WAlSINGHAil ON [Jan. 19, 
grey ; cilia dull smoky white. Abdomen whitish. Legs white ; 
hind tibiae haiiy above. 
Tyjie, c? Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 10 IV. {Hedemann). IJnique. 
This species differs from albivitclla, 7i., and litliochroma, Wlsm., 
in the much shorter apical joint of the palpi. 
38. SxNTOSiACTis, Meyr. 
[Meyr. Tr. N. Z. Inst. XXI. 173 (1889).] 
119. StXTOMACTIS? CEEVIJfELLA, sp. n. 
AntenncB longer than the fore wings; pale fawn-ochreous. 
Palpi somewhat recurved, slender, smooth, the apical joint nearly 
as long as the second ; pale fawu-oehreous. Hccul and thorax 
pale fawn-ochreous. Fore xvings very narrow, elongate ; pale 
fawn-ochreous, speckled with brownish fuscous in a line along the 
fold with another above it, as well as around and about the apical 
portion of the wing ; the more conspicuous dots being one at the 
outer third of the fold, one at the end of the cell, and one in the 
same line beyond it ; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. Exp. al. 12 mm. 
Hind luings and cilia pale yellowish grey. Abdomen shining pale 
fawn-ochreous. Legs scarcely paler, unspotted ; hind tibiae with 
long pale hairs above. 
Ty2je, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Choix, 24 IV.(Gudman)i) ; St. Thomas, 
11 III. (Hedemann). Two specimens. 
This species appears to diifer from Sgntomactis, Meyr., only in 
its longer antennae. I am not at present disjjosed to create a new 
genus for its reception. Zarathra differs in its very much longer 
palpi. 
39. Bateachedea, Stn. 
120. Batbachedea albisteigella, Mschl. 
Batrachedra alhistriqella., Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 345, 
354 (1891)^ ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 538, 548 (1892)^ 
Hah. West Indies — Poetorico^ \ 
121. Batrachedea stigmatophoea, sp. n. 
Antennce with distinct white and fuscous annulations. Palpi 
slender, slightly recurved ; yellowish white. Head and tJiorax 
whitish ochreous. Fore wings faw n-ochreous, mottled with whitish 
ochreous, thus forming an indistinct pale fascia at about one-fourth 
from the base, broader on the costal than on its dorsal extremity, 
sprinkled on its inner edge with minute black scales ; a second 
pale space occurs about the middle of the wing, also irregularly 
sprinkled with minute black scales ; towards the apex the costa 
and dorsum are both blotched vnth. whitish ochreous, a streak of 
black scales running between the blotches to the apex and through 
the apical cilia • cilia greyish, whitish ochreous immediately beneath 
1897.] WEST-IlirblAir MiORO-LEPlDOPTEEA. l05 
the apex. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale grey. 
Abdomen ochreous. Legs whitish, obliquely blotched \vith fuscous 
externally, spurs banded with black. 
Type, 'S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Hatti (Cap Haiti, 18 V. — Oudmann); St. 
Thomas, 12 III.-17 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Five specimens. 
122. Batbachedea taesimactjlata, sp. n. 
Antennce whitish ochreous, thickly barred above with fuscous, 
this colour forming three dark annulations before the apex. Prt^j^^ 
whitish, second joint with two fuscous spots, apical joint with two 
fuscous bands, one before the apex, the second near its base. Head 
whitish. Thorax dull straw-white. Fore luings dull straw-white ; 
a short curved fuscous streak from the base below the fold ; a long 
streak above it, also from the base, running along the costa to one- 
third the wing-length, thence slightly deviating downwards to the 
end of the cell ; beneath its apex is a small dorsal spot, and above 
its apex commences on the costa another dark streak, which 
leaving the pale costal cilia runs to the apex and narrowly through 
the apical cilia (these markings are all dark fuscous) ; cilia straw- 
white, tending to greyish about the tornus. -E!rp. al. 6 mm. 
Hind wings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen shining whitish 
ochreous. Legs straw-white ; hind tibiae obliquely banded exter- 
nally and their tarsi distinctly biannulate Avith dark fuscous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies — St. Thomas, 6 III.-9 IV. {Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Pour specimens. 
III. C08M0PTERYGINM. 
40. COSMOPTEEYX, Hb. 
123. CoSMOPTEEYX ATTENITATELLA, Wkr. 
n. sjn. = LESFEDEz.^, Wlsm. 
Gelecliia attenuatella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 1019 
(1864)\ Cosmoptery.v le^pedezce, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 198 
(1882)'. \y.=Cosmopteryx {? gemmiferella, Clem.), Mschl. Ab. 
Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 345, 354 (1890)^' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891, 536, 548 (1892)'.] Cosmopteryx lespedezce, Eiley, Smith's 
List Lep. Bor. Am. 107. No. 5771 (1891)'. Gelechia attenuatella, 
Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 519, 545 (1892)^ Cosmopteryx 
lespedezce, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 536, 548 (1892)\ 
Hub. United States '•= — Texas % N. Carolina''. Larva Lespe- 
deza''\ West Indies— Jamaica'" ; Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 22 
v., Gudmann); [? PoETORico'*'*] ; St. Croix, 3-31 V. (GMcZmanw, 
Hedemann, Pontoppidan) ; St. Vincent''; Grenada (Balthazar, 
250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-15 IV. //. H. Smith). 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Croix, but the plant not identified. 
Cosmopteryx gemmiferella, Clem., is not known to occur in the 
106 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
West Indies, and the species recorded by Moschler is probably 
attenuatella, but as it is not described I am unable to identify it ; 
there is, however, no reason for including gemmiferella in the 
West Indian fauna on such a slight and doubtful identification. 
124. COSMOPTERYX SIMILIS, sp. n. 
Antenna; smoky white, with a broad darkish band before the 
apex preceded by a narrow black ring, the apex itself being black ; 
these markings are all outlined in clear white. Palpi shining 
white. Head and thorax greyish brown, with a central, and two 
lateral, slender whitish streaks. Fore tvincjs greyish brown to fully 
half the wing-length, a broad pale orange-yellow band preceding 
the greyish-brown apex and cilia, in which are a triangular clear 
white costal spot and a slender white line running through the 
apex ; the pale orange space is oblique on its inner margin, and 
extends backwards a little on the costa, it is preceded by two 
golden metallic spots, one below the other beyond its middle, the 
latter being tipped with black ; on its outer edge it sends forward 
a slight pi'ojection below the white costal spot into the brown apical 
portion, this projection being margined above and beneath by 
golden scales ; on the brown basal half of the wing are four slender 
white streaks, one along the dorsum, one commencing on Ihe base 
at the costa and diverted very obliquely downwards a little beyond 
the base, and two intermediate straight streaks, of which the 
lower is longer than the upper and reaches nearly to the lower of 
the two metallic spots. Krp. al. 8-9 mm. Ilind luings pale 
brownish grey ; cilia the same. Abdomen brownish ochreous. 
Leys whitish clouded with brown. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Bah. West Indies— St. Ceoix, 3 V.-24 VI. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann, Pontoppidan) ; St. Thomas, 8 1II.-5 IV. {Gudmann). Five 
specimens. 
This species is very nearly allied to attemiatella, Wkr., but 
differs in the more oblique in]ier margin of the yellow transverse 
fascia, in the nearer approach to it of the lower streak on the 
basal patch, and in the broken metallic hand which separates this 
from the fascia, which appears to encroach more considerably upon 
the dark apical portion of the wing. 
125. COSMOPTEEYX SANCTI-TINCEIfTI, Wlsm. 
Cosmopteryxsancti-vincenti^^lsva.. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 536-7, 
548 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent^ ; Grenada (Chantilly Estate, 
350 ft., windward side, 13 IV.— ^. H. Smith). 
126. COSMOPTEBTX ABlfOEMALIS, Sp. H. 
Antennce blackish, speckled with white and biannulated with 
white before the apex, a silvery spot on the basal joint. Palpi 
whitish, shaded above with fuscous. Head dark slaty grey. 
1897. J WBST-INDIA.H MICBO-LBPIDOPTERA. 107 
Thorax dark brown. Fore wings dark umber-brown, with brilliant 
silver-white metallic spots — two at one-fourth from the base 
forming a scarcely broken oblique fascia tending outward from 
the costa to the dorsum ; two on the middle, one costal the other 
dorsal, both straight ; two at one-third from the apex, almost 
joined, not reaching the costa, with a silvery white streak in the 
commencement of the costal cilia ; beyond these another metallic 
silvery dot lies at the extreme apex, and a silveiy white streaklet 
at the extremity of the apical cilia ; dorsal cilia purplish grey. 
Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings dark vinous grey ; cilia purplish grey. 
Abdomen dark brown speckled with metallic scales. Legs dark 
brown, spurs and tarsal joints whitish. 
Type, c? Mus. Gudmann. 
Jiab. West Indies — Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 24 V. — Gudmann). 
Unique. 
TV. LAVEENINM. 
41. Antbia, Stn. 
127. Antbia conspebsa, Wlsm. 
Anybia conspersa, "Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 537, 548 
(1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies — San Domingo (Monte Christi, 17 V. — 
Gudmann); St. Thomas, 8 IV. (Gudmann); St. Vincent'; 
Grenada (Balthazar, 250-300 ft., windward side, 20 IV.-8 V.— 
//. ff. Smith). 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann at St. Thomas, from larvae feeding " iu 
the pulses of Abrus precatorius." 
128. Anybia pipeeatelia, sp. n. 
AntemuK : the basal joint enlarged on its outer half ; dust-grey. 
Palpi dust-grey, the apical joint slightly mottled externally. Head 
and thorax dusty grey. Fore loings dust-grey, minutely speckled 
witli fuscous ; cilia brownish grey. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind luings 
and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen and legs brownish grey ; 
anal tuft iu the male ochreous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Croix, 8-26 V. (Hedemami, Pontop- 
pidan) ; St. Thomas, 20 III.-14 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 
Seven specimens. 
129. Anybia curtipunctella, "Wlsm. 
Anybia curvipunctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 538, 548 
(1892)\ 
Hab. West Indies — St. Croix, 24-29 IV. (Hedemann)-, St. 
Thomas, 6 IV. (Gudmann); St. Vincent' ; Grenada (Balthazar, 
250-300 ft., windward side, 4-8 Y.—H. H. Smith). 
A series of specimens, evidently of this species, received from 
St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Grenada, has enabled me to observe 
108 LOED WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
that the semicircular spot on the fold from which the name is 
taken is somewhat an exceptional marking ; it is scarcely traceable 
in any of the specimens now before me, and in the majority of 
them is entirely absent. I have, however, no hesitation in 
identifying them as belonging to the same species. 
130. Anxbia teipunctata, sp. n. 
Aiitennce tawny fuscous. Palpi whitish ochreous, shaded with 
fuscous externally. Head and thorax tawny fuscous ; face shining 
whitish ochreous. Fore wings tawny fuscous with a vinous sheen ; 
three dark fuscous spots, a pair on the outer half of the cell in line 
with each other, connected by a short whitish ochreous streak, the 
third on the middle of the fold tipped with whitish ochreous at its 
outer extremity ; cilia greyish with a vinous tinge. Exp. al. 8 mm. 
Hind ndngs and cilia greyish with a slight vinous tinge. Abdomen 
and legs whitish ochreous. 
Tgpe, 2 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 29 IV. {Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 
10 III. {Oudmami). Two specimens. 
131. Anybia metalltfera, sp. n. 
Antennce brownish fuscous. Palpi pale cinereous. Head smooth, 
greyish ; face whitish, shining. Tliorax and fore wings coppery 
browTi, the latter with chalybeous bands and spots ; a narrow 
fascia at one-fourth is followed by a central fascia of the same 
colour, which is wider toward the dorsum than on the costa ; at 
the tornus is an outwardly curved patch pointing toward a small 
spot at the apex, another spot occurring on the costa at the com- 
mencement of the cilia ; these markings are all bluish chalybeous ; 
cilia brownish fuscous. Eap. al. 8 mm. Hind luings pale coppery 
brown, with brownish-fuscous cilia. Abdomen greyish fuscous, 
with some chalybeous scales above. Legs brownish fuscous. 
Tijpe, $ Mus. Wlsra. 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 1200 ft., I. — 
Coclcerell). Unique. 
V. HELIOBININ.^. 
42. Heliodines, Stn. 
Heliodines, Stn. Ins. Br. Lp. Tin. 243 (1854). 
= \_CHSYSOESTmA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 422 (1826) partim.} 
t Chrtsesthia, HS. Schm. V. 314 (1855). 
=JEtole, Chamb. Can. Ent. VII. 73 (1875). 
Herrich-Schaffer's restriction of ChrysoestJiia, Hb., is subsequent 
to the publication of Heliodines by Stainton, whose name is 
therefore entitled to stand for the genus of which roesella, L., is 
the type. 
1897.] WEST-IIfDIATT MIOBO-LEPrDOPTEBA. 109 
132. Heliodiites maeglnata, Wlsm. 
Heliodines marginata, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 535, 547 
(1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent '. 
133, Heliodines schulzella, F. 
Tinea schulzella, F. Ent. Syst. III. (2) 321-2. No. 152 (1794)' : 
Suppl. Ent. Syst. 498. No. 92 (1798) -. PhaUna {Tinea) schulzella, 
Turton, Syst, Nat. III. 376 (1806) ^ 
" schulzella. 125, T. alis auratis : lineis duabus oppositis 
marginalibus punctoi'um argenteorum, costa atra. 
" Corpus parvum. Antennae atrse. Caput et thorax atra, nitida, 
pectoris marginalibus aureis. Abdomen aureum. Alse aureae, 
nitidae, lineis duabus oppositis e punctis argenteis, altera costae 
nigrae adjacent©, altera margini tenuiori. Posticae nigroe. 
^'Habitat in Americae meridioualis Ins., Dr. Pflug"\ =West 
Indies ' • ^ (probably St. Croix or St. Thomas, Wlsm.). 
There appears to be little doubt that the above description was 
taken from a species of Heliodines which differs from any known 
to me. It appears to be intermediate between marffinata and 
quinqueguttata, agreeing with the former in having a black costa, 
but differing from it in the possession of metallic spots ; quinque- 
guttata agrees in having the metallic spots, but the costa is not black. 
134. Heliodines quinqueguttata, sp, u. 
Antennce simple ; shining bronzy grey. Palj^i short, slender, 
drooping ; shining pale aeneous. Head smooth ; shining bronzy. 
Thorax bronzy grey, golden orange beneath. Fore ivings to beyond 
the middle golden orange, with the extreme base and 5 spots (3 
subcostal and 2 intermediate dorsal, the dorsal spots alternating 
with the costal) all shining bronzy metallic, slenderly outlined with 
black scales in some lights ; rather more than the apical third of 
the wing is shining bronzy metallic, extending farther along the 
dorsum than along the costa, its inner edge being indented on the 
cell ; cilia bronzy grey. Exp. al. 8-5 mm. Hind vrings shining 
bronzy ; cilia bronzy grey. Ahdonieu shining bronzy brownish, 
with a bright metallic whitish patch along the first three segments 
beneath; anal tuft whitish. Legs bronzy brownish, with paler 
shining bands and spurs. 
Tyjie, d Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica (Kingston, 10 XII.— I'. D. A. 
CocJcerell) ; St. Thomas, 11 III.-12 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 
Five specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Cockerell in Jamaica " from galls on Portulaca sp. ; 
these galls produced also a Gecidomya, which was probably the 
gall-maker." Mr. Gudmann also bred this species in St. Thomas. 
" Eaupe hellgriin, mit hellbraunem Kopf ; 16-f iissig, Vom Kopf 
bis zum After allmahlig an Breite zuuehmend ; auf dem Eiicken 
finden sich zwei und auf jeder Seite eine Langsreihe sehr feinen 
110 LORD WAL8INQHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
schwarzen, behaarten Punkte, so dass au£ jedem Segment sich acht 
solchen befinden. Die Eaupe lebte an einer niedrigen Pflanze mit 
sehr feinem Gespinnste auf der Unterseite der Blatter, giug aber, 
wenn es frass, minirend in das Blatt hinein." {Gudmann.) 
" The moth holds the second pair of legs outstretched as in 
Stathmojioda " (Hedemmm). 
135. Heliodines attreoflamma, sp. n. 
Antennce and paZpi shining bronzy grey, the latter somewhat 
paler. Head and thorax shining bronzy grey, the face and the 
underside of the thorax shining pale ajneous. Fore ivings golden 
orange, with two basal streaks, five spots, and two apical streaks 
all shining chalybeous ; the two basal streaks lie along the upper 
ed<^e of the fold and along the dorsum respectively ; the spots are 
two subcostal before and beyond the middle and three dorsal 
alternating with them, the second dorsal being between the two 
subcostal ones ; the apical streaks lie one below the costa, the 
other commencing nearer to the apex and running along the base 
of the subapical cilia ; cilia bronzy grey. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind 
ivings bronzy brown ; cilia bronzy grey. Abdomen bronzy 
brownish ; beneath shining pale aeneous. Legs shining steel-grey ; 
tibiae orange. 
Type, d Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 9 III. (Hedemann). Unique. 
"The moth holds the second pair of legs outstretched as in 
Stathmopoda " (Hedemann). 
VI. HELIOZELINM. 
43. HeIiIOZela, HS. 
136. Heliozela cupbea, sp. n. 
Antennce with the basal joint elongate, slightly enlarged 
posteriorly; bronzy cupreous. Palpi steel-white. Head and 
face, thorax and fore ivings unicolorous bronzy cupreous ; cilia 
coppery grey. Exp. al. 7 .mm. Hind wings and cilia coppery 
grey. Abdomen dark bronzy cupreous. Legs cupreous; tarsal 
joints paler. 
Type, c? Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 16 III. (Hedemann). Unique. 
137. Heliozela ahenea, sp. n. 
Antennce purpUsh grey. PaZpt, head, and thorax shining, 
metallic, brassy ; underside of thorax brassy metallic. Fore wings 
brassy metallic, without markings; the scales being laid on in 
transverse lines give a slightly ribbed appearance under the lens ; 
cilia purphsh grey. Underside purplish grey. Exp. al. 4 mm. 
Hind wings and cilia purplish grey. Abdomen brassy metallic, 
tending to purphsh grey at the anal extremity ; underside brassy 
1897.] WBST-INDIA.T<r MIORO-IiBPIDOPTBBA.. Ill 
metallic. Legs whitish ; hind tarsal joints banded above with dark 
grey. 
Tiipe, c? Mas. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — Hixn (Port-au-Prinee, 24 V. — Gadmann) ; 
St. TnoiiAS, 12 IV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 
VII. SCYTHRINM 
44. CEciA, g. n. 
(o(iceTos= belonging to the house.) 
Type, (Ecia maculata, Wlsm. 
Antennce longer than the fore wings, simple, stout ; basal joint 
without pecten. 
Labial imlpi diverging, smooth ; second joint porrect, rather 
stout ; apical jbint erect, nearly as long as the second. 
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 
Ocelli present. 
Hausiellum absent. 
Head and thorax clothed with appressed scales. 
Fore wings elongate, costa rather straight, apex slightly 
depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen oblique ; tornus not developed. 
Neuration : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. 
Hind ivings hardly as broad as the fore wings, costa straight, 
abdominal angle distinct, dorsum tapering to the pointed apex ; 
ciha 2. Neuration : 8 veins, 6 and 7 long-stalked, 3 and 4 remote, 
5 almost parallel with 4. 
Abdomen slightly flattened. 
Legs : hind tibiae and first joint of the tarsi with long loose 
hairs above. 
Allied to Endrosis, Hb., and having apparently the same habits, 
but differing in having vein 6 of the hind wings present, 3 and 4 
separate, and the haustellum absent. 
138. CEciA MACrLATA, sp. n. 
AntenncB smoky greyish. Palpi pale ochreous. Hecul pale straw- 
ochreous. Thorax pale straw-ochreous, shaded with smoky grey. 
Fore ivings pale straw-ochreous, blotched and margined with smoky 
grey ; this colour commencing near the base extends along the fold 
and along the costa without including the costal cilia and embraces 
the apex ; on the middle of the fold is a stronger blotch of the 
same colour, slightly diffused downwards to the dorsum ; a similar 
blotch a little above and beyond it scarcely before the middle ; a 
third at the end of the cell extending almost across the wing ; 
cilia pale straw-ochreous. Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hind wi)igs 
shining pale yellowish grey ; the cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. 
Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs with the tibiae and tarsi somewhat 
hairy ; whitish ochreous. 
^ype, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 
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112 LORD WALSINGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 
Hah. "West Indies — St. Thomas, 16-18 III. (Hedemann). 
Brazil — Para (Amazons), 9 X.-IO I. (Schulz), Twelve speci- 
mens. 
" Very common on the inner walls of nearly every house in 
St. Thomas " {Hedemann). 
This species so greatly resembles Tineola uterella, Wlsm., that, 
without examining the head and palpi, they might easily be placed 
in the same series. 
VII. HYPONOMEUTID^. 
I. HYPONOMEUTINjE. 
45. Atteva, Wkr. 
Atteta, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. II. 526 (1854). 
= §P(EciLOPTEitA, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 546-7 
(1860). 
= Amblotssivia, "Wlgrn. Eesa Eugen., Zool. Ins. 385 (1861). 
= CojtiNEA, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M. XXVIIT. 542 (1863). 
= (Eta, Grt. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. V. 230-1 (1865). 
= Scintilla, Gn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. (5 s.) IX 287 (1879). 
= Stblis, Gu. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. (5 s.) IX. 288-9 (1879). 
Berg [An. Soc. Ci. Argent. X. 99-100 (1880)] seems to have 
had full justification for uniting all the generic names given above. 
Moore had already (Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1867, 669) sunk Corinea, 
Wiir., and Amhhthridia, Wlgrn., as synonyms of Atteva, Wkr. 
139. Atteva ptjnctella, Cram. & StoU. 
= -fPASTULELLA, F. ^, X^^'^^^^^^^^i F. ^ ; FUSTVLATA, F. "^ ; 
= svBTiLis,Yi\).^ ; =AViiEAyY\tch.'^' ; = COMPTA, C\em..'^° ', = 
GEMMATA, Grt.^' 
PJialcena (Tinea) punctella, Cram. & StoU, Pap. Exot. IV. 164, 
251 (Essai Syst. Lp.) 28, PI. 372. fig. L (1782) \ Tinea pastidella, 
F. Mant. Ins. II. 241. No. 16 (1787)". Tinea inistidella, F. Ent. 
Syst. III. (2) 292. No. 20 (1794) \ Lifhosia imstidaia, F. Sppl. 
Ent. Syst. 462. No. 16 (1798)*. Phalcena (Tinea) pvstulella, 
Turton, Syst. Nat. 111. 363 (1806)'. Crameria sultilis, Hb. Verz. 
bek. Schm. 168. No. 1737 (ante 1 826) ". Phycis pxmctella, Verloren, 
Cat. Syst. Lp. Cram. 138, 274 (1837)'. Heiopeia aurea, Fitch, III. 
Ep. Ins. N.Y. 168-9 (1856)". Pceciloptera compta, Clem. Pr. Ac. 
Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 547 (1860) ^ Deiopeia aurea, Morris, Syn. 
Lp. N. Am. 251-2 (1862) '°. Pceciloptera compta, Morris, Syn. Lp. 
N. Am. 312 (1862)". Deiopeia aurea. Pack. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 
III. 106 (1864) '-. Poedloptera compta, Grt. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 
IV. 319 (1865) ". (Eta compta, Grt. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. V. 230-1 
(1865)". Cydosia punctella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXXV. 
1894 (1866)''. Cydosia aurea, Grt. & Ebs. List Lp. N. Am. I. 
p. vii (1868) ^\ (Eta compta, Eiley, I. Ep. Ins. Mo. 1868, 151-3, 
PI. II. 22-3 (1869)"; Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXXII. 178 (1871) '\ 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICHO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 113 
(Eta aurm, Stretch, 111. Zvg. & Bomb. N. Am. 159-60, PL VII. 
10 (1872) '^ (Eta punctella, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 
228-30 (1873) '° : Eiler, Pr. Ac. Sc. St. Louis, III. liii-iv. (1 873) ^\ 
(Eta gemmata, Grt. Bull. Buff. Soc. N. H. I. 93-4 (1873) ". (Eta 
mirea. Stretch, El. Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. 159-60, 240-2 (faurera), 
PI. VII. 10 (1874) ^^■ (Eta punctella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G-. Surv. 
IV. 159 (1878)'*. Scintilla pmstulella, Gn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 
(5 s.) IX. 287-8 (1879)''. Atteva punctella, Berg. An. Soc. Ci. 
Argent. X. 100-2 (1880) 'I (Eta compAa, Eiley, U.S. Ent. Com. 
(Dept. Intr.), Bull. VI. 13, 58 (1881) '^ ; Pack. U.S. Ent. Com. 
(Dept. Intr.), Bull. VII. 1-32 (1881) -" ; Pack. U.S. Ent. Com. 
(Dept. Agr.), Pp. V. 669 (1890) ^\ (Eta punctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. 
Soc. Lond. 1891, 532, 547 (1892) =° ; Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 
10-11 (1896)". 
Larva, Ailanthus glanclulosus, VII-IX. "•'*■"'"'''"'*'''"'''; Cos- 
tela erecta ^^. 
Hah. United States (Georgia, Texas, Missouri) ^-i^. '6-21, 23, 24, 26. 
''"''; IX.-XI. 7u6."-"''°.'^ Honduras ( = Himalaya Mts.*^)'"'. 
West Indies— Cuba"; St. Cboix"; Trinidad"". Surinam '•''■'°; 
French Guiana (Cayenne) ''■"" ; Colombia " ; Brazil (Santarem, 
Villa Nova)''"",: Argentina (Buenos Aires) "'•'°. 
Grote seems to have been of the opinion that three species are 
represented in the above synonymy (which, if distinct, should 
receive the following names : — aurea, Pitch, United States ; gem- 
mata, Grt., West Indies; punctella. Cram., S.America); on the 
other hand, Eiley and Berg considered that these names represent 
but a single species. I give the synonymy as I find it, withholding 
my own views until I have had the opportunity of studying more 
material. 
140. Atteta eulviguttata, Z. 
= GLAUcoFiDELLA, Gn. ^; = t-Pf/iF/ez/Trsii^, Wlsm. 
(Ela fulviguttata, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien. XXIII. 231-2 
(1873) ^ Syhlis glaucopidella, Gn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. (5 s.) IX. 
289 (1879) -. Atteva fulviguttata, Berg, An. Soc. Ci. Argent. X. 
106-7 (1880) \ (Etafulvicjuttella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
532, 547 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica ^~\ (Australia ?)'■*. 
141. Atteva eastuosa, Z. 
(Eta fastuosa, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 225-7, PI. III. 68 
(1877)'. Atteva fastuosa. Berg, An. Soc. Ci. Argent. X. 109 
(1880)2. (Eta fastuosa, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 533, 547 
(1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Cuba '"\ 
142. Atteta siderba, Wlsm. 
(Eta siderea, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 533, 547 (1892) '. 
Hah. West Indies — San Domingo '. 
Proc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. VIII. 8 
114 LORD WALSINGHA.M ON [Jan. 19, 
46. Tamarrha, Wkr. 
Tamarbha, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 81fi (1864). 
In my previous paper (Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, o27) I sunk the 
genus Tamarrha, Wkr., as a synonym of Psecadia, Hb. In this 
I was guided by the ueuration of Tamarrha geliddla, Wkr., which 
is a true Psecadia. At that time I had seen only the type of 
Walker's other species nivosella, which is a female. The male of 
this species, however, shows a strong costal tuft of diverging hairs 
near the base of the hind wings, which separates it at once from 
Psecadia. It possesses veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings from a 
common stem, a character which also somewhat misled me as to 
its affinities ; the length of the cell, however, and the general 
character of the neuration, together with the roughened head, seem 
to indicate an alliance with the EyponomeiUidce rather than with the 
(Ecophoridce. I would therefore revive the generic name Tamarrha, 
Wkr., retaining nivosella as the type. 
143. Tamarrha nivosella, Wkr. 
n. Syr\..^=-ADUSTELLAy Z. 
Tamarrha nivosella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 817 
(1864) \ Psecadia adustella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 240-1 
(1877) ^ Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 343, 354 (1890) ^ 
Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 528, 546 (1892) \ Psecadia 
nivosella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 528, 546 (1892) ^ 
Hab. West Indies — Cuba (Tring Mas.); Jamaica '•* (-ScAaiw ; 
Kingston, 24 VII., Cocherell ; Newcastle, Mus. Raf/onot, " No. 750 
— 1894, Wlsm."); San Domingo'^; Portorico^'^-^; Trinidad 
(^Schaus). 
47. EuABNE, Mschl. & Saalm. 
144. E0ARNE OBLIGATELLA, Mschl. 
Euarne ohligatella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 340, 354 
(1890) ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 533, 547 (1892) =. 
Hab. West Indies— PoRTORico'^ 
48. Tkichostibas, Z, 
As nothing has been recorded of the life-history of this genus, 
I may remark that there are cocoons of Trichostihas fumosa, Z., in 
the Museums of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In the 
Oxford Museum is a specimen of the imago with its cocoon and 
pupa labelled " Amazons, from pink cocoon — Bates " (" 193. 1893. 
Wlsm."). I am not aware that its food-plant is known, but the 
cocoon is so remai-kable that it is worth describing, if only in the 
hope that collectors in the West Indies or elsewhere may breed 
some of the species. The cocoon is of a pinkish-red colour, and is 
formed of a network of stiff threads ; it is almost kidney-shaped, 
and at the anal extremity has a produced neck. It hangs free 
from a long stiff thread about an inch and a half long, which 
1897.] WEST-IKDIAN MICEO-I-EPIDOPTERA. 115 
is attached to the side before the anterior end ; this thread is here 
trifurcate, one strand going downwards, the other two strands 
passing around the cocoon and uniting to form a loop at about 
one-fourth' from the anterior extremity. These three strands and 
their stem appear to be spun first ; the upper one probably passes 
round the whole cocoon and is attached to the loop before men- 
tioned, and on these as a foundation the cross-threads, which 
traverse the cocoon obHquely, are probably spun, but this can only 
be determined from observing the habits of the spinning larva. 
In the Oxford Museum specimen the pupa is protruded from the 
upper extremity between the loop, which makes it difficult to 
understand for what purpose the neck at the anal extremity is 
constructed. The cocoons of a species of Trichostibas are figured 
hanging from branches in ' The Standard Natural History,' 
published by Cassino & Co., of Boston, Mass. I have only a 
separate copy of the article " Heterocera," by Professor Fernald, 
so I am unable to quote the volume — the " Fig. 557. — Cocoons of 
a Brazilian Tiueid," occurs on p. 438, but I cannot find that it is 
noticed in the text. As Bates collected Trichostibas fumosa on 
the Amazons, there are probably specimens in the British Museum, 
and if Walker described them he would be most likely to locate the 
species in the Liihosiadce. 
145. Trichostibas callioera, Z. 
TricJwstibas calligera, Z. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 231-2 
(1877) ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 533, 547 (1892) ^ 
Hab. West Indies— Cuba'' ^ 
146. Trichostibas oyata, Z. 
Trichostibas ouata, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 233 (1877) ' ; 
Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 533, 547 (1892) ^ 
Hub. West Indies — Cuba'^ 
147. Trichostibas sordidata, Z. 
Trichostibas sordidata, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 2.33-4 
(1877)'; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 534, .547 (1892)=. 
Hab. West Indies — Portorico '■=. 
148. Trichostibas ? iophlebia, Z. 
Trichostibas iophleUa, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 228-9, 
PL III. 69 (1877) '. Trichostibas ? iophlebia, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 534, 547 (1892) -. 
Hab. West Indies — Antilles ''^ 
149. Trichostibas ? pallidicostella, sp. n. 
Antennce blackish. Palpi short, slender, not projecting beyond 
the face, apical joint as long as the second ; black. Head and 
thorax pale mouse-grey. Fore wings dark mouse-grey, the costa 
whitish grey throughout ; cilia whitish grey, shading to dark 
8* 
116 LORD WALSINGHAM OX ■ [Jan. 19, 
moiise-grey at the tornus. Underside unspotted, the pale costa 
showing on the outer half. Exp. al. 26 mm. Hind winr/s leaden 
grey ; cilia paler. Ahdomen dark leaden grey. Legs dark leaden 
grey, inclining to fuscous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Coll. Ragonot). 
This is not a true Trichostihns ; it differs from the type in 
having veins 4 and 5 of the hind wings connate and vein 2 
recurved out of 3 instead of recurved out of the cell, hut in the 
absence of the 6 I am unwilling to describe it as the type of a 
new genus. 
49. Paeatiquauba, g. n. 
{irapu : Tiquadra, nom. gen.) 
Type, Paratiquadra forficulella, Wlsm. 
Antennce (|) : c? serrate beneath, uniciliate ; rather stout. 
Labml palpi rather short, projecting; apical joint much shorter 
than the second. 
Maxillary palpi (broken ?). 
Haustellum rather short. 
Head smooth, slightly roughened posteriorly. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore wings : costa arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 
rounded. Neuration: 12 veins all separate, 7 to apex, 2 from near 
angle of cell, with an internal vein from between 6 and 7 to 
between 10 and 11. 
Hind ivings elongate ovate, evenly rounded from apex ; trans- 
parent, iridescent ; cilia short. Neuration : 8 veins all separate, 
2 from end of basal third of cell, 3 remote, 3 and 4 widely sepa- 
rated, 4, 5, 6, and 7 almost parallel, but 5 is slightly curved 
downwards ; an internal vein from between 5 and 6 to base. 
Ahdomen flat, hairy ; anal claspers long and curved inwards 
and upwards, somewhat resembling the analogous organs in the 
ForJicuUdo'. 
Legs smooth. 
150. Paratiquadra FORFicrLELLA, sp. n. 
Antenn(B dark brownish fuscous. Palpi whitish grey. Head 
whitish grey, face paler. Tliorax pale fa\^-n brownish. Fore 
ivings pale fawn brownish, a pale whitish-cinereous space alonof 
the cell blending with the darker ground-colour towards the tornus, 
and a similar pale space along the costa nearly to the apex ; cilia 
very pale fawn-brown. Underside pale fawn-brownish, ■nith a large 
subovate blackish patch extending along the outer half of the cell 
at its upper edge nearly to the costa, and including the basal two- 
thirds of veins 8 and 9 as well as the greater portion of vein 10 
and the outer part of vein 11. ^.rpZ. al. 24: mm. Hind ivings 
transparent, iridescent, bluish grey, margined with a pale shade of 
fawn-brown ; cUia pale fawn-brown. Ahdomen clothed with pale 
1897.] WEST-INDIAS MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 117 
fawn-browu hairs ; anal claspers somewhat peculiar, long, curved 
inwards and upwards in the form of two chitinous processes 
resembling the analogous organs in the Forjiculidce. Legs pale 
fawn-brown. 
Type, (S Mus. Wlsm, 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Coll. Bagonot). 
The dark patch on the underside of the fore wings is probably 
a sexual character confined to the d . 
50. Hytonometta, Ltr. 
[fYpoifOMEnTA, Ltr. (1796); +Htponomettta, Sdf. (1837).] 
151. Htponomeuta mahalebellus, Gn. 
Tponomexita mahahhella, Gn. Ind. Meth. 105-6 (1845)'. Hy- 
pononteuta mahalebellus, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 277. No. 1555 
(1871) ^ Yponomeuta mahalebella, Gn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. (5 s.) 
IX. 282 (1879) ^ Hyponomeuta mahalebellus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 532, 547 (1892) ^ 
Hah. EuEOPE ''*, Larva, Oerasus mahaleb^-^. West Indies — 
CUBA-''-^ 
152. HXPONOMETJTA TEIAWGULAEIS, Mschl. 
Hyponomeuta triangularis, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 
339-40, 354 (1890)'; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 532, 547 
(1892)2; Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVIL 10 (1896) ^ 
Hah. West Indies— PoETOEico '■-; St. Thomas, 17 III.^ 
II. FLUTELLINM. 
51. Plutella, Schrk. 
153. PlUTELLA CEUCIEEEAETJM, Z. 
Plutella cruciferarum, Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. IV. 281-3 (1843). 
Plutella a-ylostella, Stgr. & Wk, Cat. Lp. Eur. 281. No. 1626 (1871). 
Plutella cruciferarum, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 425. No. 1626 (1871), &c. 
&c. Plutella xylostella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 341, 354 
(1890) \ Plutella cruciferarum, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
518-9, 545 (1892)2. 
Hah. All regions. West Indies — Poetoeico ^'^. 
It is certainly remarkable that I should not have received 
specimens of this cosmopolitan species from some of my corre- 
spondents ! 
III. GLYPHIPTEBYGINM. 
52. DiTEIGONOPHOEA. 
(5/s=doubly; r(0('7w;'o>'=a triangle ; (/)O|0€T»' = to carry.) 
Type Bitrigonophora marmoreipenvis, Wlsm. 
Antenna (broken). 
Labial palpi somewhat longer than the head, slender at the 
118 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
base, diverging outwards ; apical joint shorter than second, both 
triangularly clothed with appressed scales, giving a truncate 
appearance. 
Head densely clotlied above and in front. 
Fore ivings with the costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen 
oblique, dorsum straight. Neumtion : 12 veins all separate, 7 to 
apex. 
Hind ivings as broad as the fore wings, somewhat trapezoidal. 
Neuration : 7 veins all separate. 
Abdomen somewhat flattened and laterally dilated. 
Hind tibia somewhat hairy above and beneath. 
This genus is founded upon the peculiar shape of the palpi, 
W'hich differ in form from those of aU the genera of Micro- 
Lepidoptera with which I am acquainted, 
154. DiTEIGONOPHOEA MAEMOKEIPENNIS, sp. H. 
Antennce cinereous. Palpi silvery grey above, the second joint 
shaded and the apical joint doubly barred beneath with brownish 
fusoous. Head ochreous, mixed with brownish fuscous. Thorax 
brownish fuscous, transversely banded with whitish. Fore wings 
pale ochreous, thickly mottled with brownish fuscous, which is 
separated into ill-defined spots and shades by slender silvery whitish 
undulating lines ; a series of five or six slender silvery white oblique 
costal streaks, the outer one of the series being in the middle of 
an elongate brownish-fuscous patch, scarcely more than two-thirds 
of the wing-length from the base ; a slender blackish line, slightly 
angulated at the apex, runs along the base of the greyish-ochreous 
cilia. Underside uniformly reddish grey. ExjjI. al. 5-7 mm. 
Hind ivings and cilia reddish grey. Underside uniformly reddish 
grey. Abdomen reddish grey. Legs grey with m bite spuis, tlie 
tarsi spotted with white. 
Tyiu, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15 III. — H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 
These specimens were unfortunately almost destroyed by an 
accident. 
53. Trapeziophora, Wlsm. 
155. Trapeziophora ftEMMULA, "Wlsm. 
Trapeziophora gemmula, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 530-1, 
547, PL XLI. 7(1892)>. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Tincent ^ 
54. G-lyphipteryx, Hb. 
= McsMiA, Tr. [nee auct.) ; = Ussasa, Wkr. 
Curtis, Br. Ent. IV. PI. 152 (1827), figured and specified Pha- 
Icena linneella, CI., as the type of GlypliiiAeriix. If he were quoting 
Glyphiptcry.v from lliibner's ' Verzeiehuiss,' he must have been 
1897.] WEST-IN-DIAK MICEO-LEPIBOPTEEA. 119 
acquainted with that work very soon after its completion. If 
" GlyjjJiijyferya:, nob." of Curtis were an independent creation, the 
name could not stand, as it was already preoccupied by Hiibner ; 
and if he were restricting Hiibuer's genus Gliiphipteryx, his action 
was inadmissible, for Gli/phipten/x linneelJa, Hb. Verz. bek. Schra. 
4101 (Hb. Tin. 436, Tort. 84),'is bergstrcesserella, F. (Stgr. Cat. 
2306), a totally different insect from Knneella, L. and Crt. *Glyphi- 
pteryx, Ci't. (;i<fcHb.), must sink as a synonym of Chrysodista, !Stn. 
156. GlYPHIPXERTX CATJDATELLA, Sp. n. 
Anfenjice brownish grey. Paljn slender ; whitish. Head and 
thorax shining olive-brown. Fo7-e winys shining olive-brown, with 
five short white costal streaklets ; the first two beyond the middle 
oblique, tending to converge, emitting a steel-blue hue running to 
the tornus ; the third small and straight ; the fourth and fifth, 
before the apex, tending to converge at their extremities, the outer 
one of the two nearly meeting a short subapical white streak below 
the dark ocellated apex, which contains a white spot within the 
circular line running through the ciHa and emitting a long uncate 
dark apical streaklet ; on the middle of the dorsum is a conspicuous 
white outwardly obUque cuneiform dash, its extremity slightly 
curved over, and before the tornus is a much shorter one, straighter 
and less conspicuous ; cilia pale greyish. Exp. al. 8 mm. Bind 
ivmys and cilia greyish brown. Ahdomen shining oUve-brown. 
Legs olive-brownish, tarsi spotted and tipped with whitish. 
2\ipe, S 2 Mils. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Geewada (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft. ; and 
Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 13-20 IV.— if. H. Smith). Three 
specimens. 
157. Gltphipteryx paeadisea, sp. n. 
Antennce brownish fuscous. Palpi smooth, slender, the second 
joint about as long as the apical ; dirty whitish. Head and thorax 
brownish fuscous. Fore ivinys brownish fuscous at the base, richly 
ornamented beyond ; with a broad triangular dorsal patch at one- 
third, its apex reaching to the upper edge of the cell; a short 
scarcely oblique steel-blue costal streak a little beyond it terminates 
on the cell in a space shaded with orange ochreous, which colour 
also intervenes between it and a second slightly inverted steel-blue 
costal streak slightly beyond the middle — the upper extremities of 
these streaks form white spots on the costa ; from the middle of 
the dorsum arises a longer steel-blue streak with hlac reflections, 
its extremity equidistant between the ends of the costal streaks 
above it ; thence the ground-colour becomes dark greyish fuscous, 
but is almost entirely superseded by a large brightly decorated 
patch of black occupying the whole torual angle — its upper portion 
consisting of a steel-lilac spot, from which radiating lines of pale 
ochreous dots traverse the black space, its lower portion with 
three upright equidistant steel-lilac spots, the first larger than the 
other two ; crossing the apical portion is a strong steel-blue streak 
120 LORD -VVALSIXGHAM 0!f [Jail. 19, 
reaching the subapical incisiou on the ternien, its costal extremity 
forming a white spot ; beyond it, just before the extreme apex, is 
an outwardly oblique cuneiform white spot ; cilia aeneous, with a 
white spot at the incision. -£".17^. al. 9-10 mm. Mind wings dark 
brown, inclining to fuscous ; ciha pale grey. Abdomen brownish 
grey. Legs greyish, with pale tarsal spots. 
Type, S 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Gbexada (La Force Estate, 350 ft. ; and 
Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 15IV.-5 Y. — //. H.Smith). Four 
specimens. 
55. Bkenthia, Clem. 
158. Brenthia pavonacella, Clem. 
Brentliia pavonacella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 172 
(1860)^; Stn. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 434 (1860) ^ Wkr. 
Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 844 (1864) ' ; Stn. Tin. X. Am. pp. vii, 
37, 41, 134-5 (1872) ^ Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 323-4 
(1875)': Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 174 (1877)'. Brenthia 
pavonicella, Cbamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 132 (1878) ^ 
Breuihia pavonacella, Chamb. Can. Ent X. 76-7 (1878)"; Mschl. 
Ab. Senck. Xat. Ges. XV. 335, 354 (1890) ^ Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 529, 547 (1892) '\ 
Hah. United States (Pennsylvania, Texas, Kentucky)^*'"'"", 
VI.-VIII '■'■''*. Larva, AmpMcarpo'a vionoica, VI.-VII., IX.' 
Panama — Chiriqui"'"". West Indies — (Antilles?''), Poeto- 
Bico''^ Brazil '''''°, 
56. Gattris, Hb. 
159. Gatjuis biferana, Wkr. 
11. syn. =TniSTis, F. & R. ; n. syn. ^costvbeenalis, Z. 
Guunshife^■ana,^Nkv. Cat. Lp. Ins.'fi.M. XXVIII. 418 (1863)'. 
Gauris tri'stis, F. & K. Eeise Nov., Lep. PI. 138. 15 (1875) ^ 
Simaetliis cuntiibernaUs, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 175-6, 
PI. II. 63 (1877)^. Gauris hiferana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891, 529, 546 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies ^ — San Domingo ^^ Brazil (Amazons) ^. 
160. Gauris rimtjlalis, Z. 
Simaetliis rimulalis, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 321 
(1875)': Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 174-5, PI. II. 62 (1877)-. 
Gauris rimulalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 529, 546 (1892) ^ 
SimaetMs rimidalis, Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 10 (1896) \ 
Hah. West Indies— Cuba ^'^; St. Thomas''^', 10 IV.' 
57. ToRTTRA, Wkr. 
ToRTTRA, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 510(1863). 
= Choeegia (Z.), F. & E. Eeise Xov.,Lp. expl. PI. 140 (1875); 
Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 191-2 (1877). 
1897.] WEST-INDIAX MICRO-IEPIDOPTEBA. 121 
161. TOETYKA AUEIFERALIS, Wkr. 
:= AUROFASCIANA, Sncll."; =IGNITA, Ti? 
TorUjra aurifemlis, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXVin. .510-11 
(1863) ^ Simaethis aurofaseiana, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. XVIII. 73, 
74-6, PI. VI. 7 (1875)^. iSimacthis (CJwrdates) aurofaseiana, Snell. 
Tijd. V. Ent. XX. 48-9 (1876) \ CJwregia i</nita, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. 
Eoss. XIII. 195-6 (1877) *. Choregia (Simaethis) aurofaseiana, 
Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. XXVIII. 15 (1885) \ Choregia aurofaseiana, 
Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 335, 354 (1890)^ TorUfra 
auriferalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 528-9, 546 (1892) ' • 
Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. LVII. 10 (1896) ^ 
ffab. West Indies — Cuba^'' ; San Domingo ' " ; Poetobico"" ; 
St. Ceoix ", 22X1. {Poatoppidan) ; St. Maetin -•"''',• St. Vincent '. 
[In my last paper {I. c. No. 7, 529) I suggested that Choregia 
fulgens, F. & E., was probably a variety. It may therefore be 
advisable to put on record an account of the life-history of that 
species. In the Oxford Museum are two specimens oi fulgens with 
the following label attached : — 
" Arica, Peeu, Kenderdine. Flying in sun about low fig-trees. 
Larva in the young shoots of the-fig tree, where it changes, 
spinning a strong white silken cocoon. It is of a dull brownish- 
red colour with the feet [hlacl- ?] and a row of small black dots on 
each segment, from each of which issues a fine hair." 
This note ought to enable collectors in the West Indies to 
breed auriferalis, "Wkr., and to prove whether it is distinct or a 
variety oi fulgens. 
VIII. TOETEICID.E. 
I. OLETHEEUTINJS, Hb. 
= Olethsevt^, Hb. ; = Orapmolitbjn^, Fern. ; =Efisli:- 
MiD^, Meyr. ; = Oletrmeutin^, W^lsm. (emend.) . 
58. Bactea, Stph. 
^=^ApiiELiA, Stph.; =Leftia, Gn. 
162. Bactea ianceolana. 
Tortrix lancealana, Hb. Samml. Eur. Schm. VII. (Tort.) PL 
XIII. 80 (1800) \ Ancglis lanceolana, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 376. 
No. 3614 (1826) ^ Aphelia lanceolami, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. 
Eur. 251. No. 1006 (1871)% &c. Bactra lanceolana., Fern. Tr, 
Am. Ent. Soc. X. 28-9. No. 163 (1882) ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 501, 543 (1892) \ 
Bab. EuEOPE^'% ArEiCA% Asia % Austealia °, New Zealand', 
United States ''■^ West Indies— St. Thomas, 22-30 III (Jlede- 
manii) ; St. Vincent ' ; Gebnada (windward side — Balthazar, 
250 ft., La Force Estate, 350 ft., and Grand Etaug, 1900 ft., 
122 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
1 IV.-30 V. ; leeward side— Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 25-30 
VIII.— ZT. H. Smith). 8. Amekica. 
I have not thought it necessary to give the full synonymy of 
this widely distributed species. 
59. Enaemonia, Hb. 
Type, Tortrix tuoeberiana, Schiff. (Staph. 1839). 
163. Enarmonia jamaicana, sp. n. 
Antennce shortly biciliate, and serrate towards the apex ; 
cinereous. Paljji porrect, extending nearly the length of the head 
beyond it ; pale cinereous, with a darker shade beneath the second 
and third joints. Head dirty fawn whitish. 27iora.r dull cinereous, 
speckled and blotched with hoary whitish. Fore lulmjs dull 
cinereous, speckled and blotched with hoary whitish ; a basal 
patch, extending a little beyond one-third, throws out an acutely 
angulated projection above the fold, almost bisecting an outwardly 
angulated dirty-whitish median fascia, which is separated from the 
terminal portion of the wing by an angulated band of the same 
darker ground-colour as the basal patch ; this band commences 
about the middle of the costa in one of a series of about twelve 
outwardly oblique costal streaks, it is produced and dilated out- 
wards to the end of the cell, whence it is abruptly bent back to 
the dorsum, becoming wider in its descent; this is bounded 
outwardly by a shining silvery whitish line, especially marked 
before the ocelloid patch, which contains six or seven black 
transverse lines, and is also terminated on its outer edge by a 
narrow, shining, silvery band ; on the apical portion of the costa 
a series of pale lines between the dark costal streaks assume a 
silvery hue, and one of them is produced to the termen below the 
apex, and at the extreme apex is a dark spot, corresponding in 
colour with the costal streaklets ; cilia mottled greyish cinereous. 
Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind ivings pale greyish brown ; cilia whitish 
cinereous. Abdomen and legs pale cinereous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies — Jamaica (Kingston, VI. — Cockerell). 
Unique. 
This species appears to be nearly allied to Grapliolitlia duo- 
decemstriata, Wlsm., but is somewhat smaller and has a more 
pronounced basal patch and fewer dark lines in the ocelloid patch. 
60. Episimus, Wlsm. 
Episimus, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 501-2, PI. XLI. 3«-6 
(1892). 
The following addition should be made to my description of this 
genus : — 
Thorax smooth ; S and $ with an expansible hair-pencil 
(arising from a point near the head) below the base of the fore 
wing. When not expanded this hair-pencil is appressed to the 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 123 
side of the thorax beneath the wiug and may easily be overlooked, 
but when spread out it is very noticeable, appearing like thistle- 
down at the base of the costa. The occurrence of this character in 
both sexes may suggest a different train of thought to those who 
have enunciated various theories to account for the functional 
utiUty of such structures hitherto observed in the male sex only. 
This observation is founded on the examination of many speci- 
mens belonging to several described and undescribed Transatlantic 
species. 
164. Episimus teansferranus, "Wkr. 
[trANSPERRANUS, Wkr. + TRANSPERRANUS, Wkr. 
Carpocapsa transfcrrana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 398 (1863)'. 
Epidinus transfemma, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 502, 543 (1892) ^ 
Hab. Brazil (%«)'--.] 
TRANSFERRANUS, Wkr. 4- TINCENTANXTS, Wlsm. 
Episimus transferrana, Wkr. + vincenfana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. S. 
Lond. 1891, 502, 543, PL XLI. 3 (1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies— St. Vincent \ 
165. EpISIMUS AUGMENTAN0S, Z. 
Grapholitha (^Hedya) augmentana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 
160-1 (1877) ^ Episimus augmentana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891, 502, .543 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Cuba^-^; G-renada (Balthazar, 250 ft., 
windward side, 20 IV. — H. H. Smith). 
166. Episimus nesiotes, sp. n. 
Antennce : J , stout, slightly pubescent ; bone-colour, with a 
rufous tinge towards the base. Falpi somewhat club-shaped, the 
apical joint scarcely visible ; bone-white on their inner sides, 
rufous externally. Head reddish ochreous ; face rufous, a traus- 
verse whitish band between the eyes. Tliorax whitish, anteriorly 
margined with reddish brown. Fore wings mottled with reddish 
brown and bone-white with some admixture of bluish grey ; the 
bone-white is especially noticeable in a large elongate dorsal patch 
extending to the fold, transversely barred and thus almost oblite- 
rated on the basal half ; it is also noticeable in a series of short 
outwardly oblique costal streaks, and at the outer end of tho cell 
in an inwardly curved line of which the lower extremity reaches 
the upper angle of the somewhat indistinct ocelloid patch (con- 
taining two black dots set in rosy-white preceded by a steel-grey 
shade) ; some oblique slender steel-grey lines extend outwards from 
the lower extremities of the pale costal streaks : cilia reddish 
brown mixed with bone-grey. Exp. al. d 14 mm., $ 17 mm. 
Hind ivings shining brownish grey, with somewhat paler cilia. 
Abdomen brownish grey. Legs bone-whitish. 
Type, (S 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
124 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON' [Jan. 19, 
Hah. West Indies — St. Cboix, 4 V.-15 VI. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann, Pontoppidan). 
" Die 16-fussige Eaupe lebt au£ Euphorbia hiiperifolia zwischen 
zusammengesponnenen Bliittern ; sie ist cyliucli-isch, zwischen den 
Leibsegmeuteu stark eingeschuiirt, die Grundfarbe gelbgriin, aui: 
dem ersten Segment mit vier kleinen i-othen Punkten, auf alien 
iibrigen Segmenteu je ein rother Giirtel ringsum das Segment in 
welcbem die rothen Punkte etwas dunkler erscheinen und mit 
feinen Haaren besetzt ; Kopf berzformig, gelbbraun, die Mund- 
theile etwas dunkler ; Fiisse und Aftersegment unbezeichnet." 
(^Gudmann.^ 
Closely allied to argutanus, Clem., but differing in the distinctly 
apparent dorsal patch and in its paler hind wings. 
167. Episimus aegutanus, Clem. 
= AZLUTANA, Z.* 
Bactra ? argutana, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 358 (1860) '. 
Grapholitha (Hedga) allutana, 7i. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 
295-6, PL IX. 27 (1875)'. Bactra? argutana. Puck. U.S. Dept. 
Intr. (Ent. Com.), Bull. VII. 69 (1881) ^ Semasia argutana, 'Eeva. 
Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 45. Xo. 319 (1882) ^ Bactra? argutana, 
Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr., Ep. V. 282 (1890) \ Semasia argutana, 
Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr., Ep. V. 668 (1890) «; Mft. Caii. Ent. 
XXIII. 168 (1891) ^ 
Hab. Cajhada '' ; United States ^'% 9-26 VII.^ Larva, Hama- 
melis virginica^'^''^ ; Rhus glabra^ '^'' ; Cratcegus tcnnentosa^'^'' ; 
Uhnus^-^''. West Indies— St. Croix, 4 V.-15 VI. {Hedemann, 
Pontoppidan); St. TnoiLiS, 18 III. (larva Euphorbia sp. ?, Gud- 
mann) ; St. Lucia (Point Michell, 25 V.) ; Grenada (Balthazar, 
250 ft., windward side, 15-27 IV.— iT. H. Smith). 
Mr. Gudmann's specimen is labelled as bred, but the name of 
the food-plant is not indicated. Baron von Hedemann informs 
me that it was bred from a species of Euphorbia, but his note may 
possibly have referred to nesiotes. 
168. EpisiMtrs SUBMICANS, sp. n. 
Antennce fawn-brown. Palpi rough, apical joint depressed, 
short, partly concealed ; greyish-fawn. Head fa^n-ochreous. 
Thorax fawn-brown ; underside shining silvery white. Fore ivings 
whitish cinereous, mottled aud blotched with umber-brown mixed 
with fuscous : basal patch scarcely indicated, but traceable by two 
dark costal spots with smaller ones between them, by a small dark 
umber-brown patch resting on the fold, and by another nearer to 
the base beneath the fold ; a broad triangular costal patch com- 
mencing before and extending beyond the middle is composed of 
dark umber-brown with fuscous lines running through it, a band 
of rather shining steel-grey dividing it into two parts obliquely, 
this patch is diffused and produced uTegularly to the fold, above 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 125 
which it is somewhat dilated ; the apical portion of the wing con- 
tains two umber-brown costal streaks, the first ot: which sends out 
a narrow chestnut-brown line to the termen beneath the apex, the 
apex itself being dark umber-brown mixed with fuscous scales ; an 
obliquely ascending patch of the same colour, also narrowly dark- 
margined, rests at its base on the lower half of the termen ; an 
umber-brown patch within the tornus is preceded and followed by 
a silvery-grey space : cilia rich chestnut-brown along their base, 
their extremities being dark fuscous. Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hind 
ivings greyish brown ; cilia paler, shaded along their base. Abdo- 
men greyish brown. Liys whitish cinereous ; hind tibiae with a 
tuft of hairs beneath (on their inner sides, along their anterior 
half) ; middle femora shining white. 
Ti/2Je, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — G-renada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15 1II.-20 IV.: nine specimens. — H. H. Smith). 
This species varies considerably in the colour of the fore wings, 
in some specimens assuming a rich reddish brown (almost ferru- 
ginous) tint, the thorax matching the colour of the basal half of 
the wing. 
61. Cacocharis, "Wlsm. 
169. Cacocharis albimacula, Wlsm. 
Cacocharis albimacula, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond, 1891, 503-4, 
543, PI. XLI. 4 (1892) \ 
Hah. Brazil ^ (Ceara, VIII. — Leecli, Mus. Wlsm.). West Indies 
— St. Vincent ^ 
62. Ancylis, Hb. 
=: PSOXOPTEEIS, Tv. ; =Ps02:0PTEBTX, Sdf. 
170. Ancxlis tirididorsana, Mschl. 
Phoxopteryx virididorsana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 334, 
354 (1890) '. Phoxop)teris virididorsana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891, 504, 543 (1892)% 
Hah. West Indies — Portorico'-^ 
63. Thiodia, Hb. 
Type, Tortrix citrana, Hb. (Stph.). 
Thiodia, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 391 (1826) ; Stph. List Br. An. 
B.M. X. Lp. 63 (1852). 
— *Ctdia (Rh.partim), Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 482-3 (1895) (nee 
Stph.). 
= Sema^sia, Stgr. & Wk. Oat. {partim) ; Pern. 
Hiibner proposed Thiodia for his two species citrann and 
sulphurana (=rhododendronaUs, Dp.); and Stephens in 1852 con- 
stituted citrana the type. The name Cydia cannot be employed 
for this genus, as its type is Tinea porno nella, L. {vide p. 130). 
126 LORD WALSIN6HAM OJT [Jan. 19, 
171. Thiodia autochthones, sp. n. 
Antenme and^jaZjji mouse-grej, the latter slightly paler. Head 
and thorax mouse-grey. Fore win(js mouse-grey, with a series of 
oblique geminated white-grey costal streaks terminating in an 
inverted spot of the same colour before the apex ; on the outer 
half these streaks are produced outwards in leaden-grey lines 
extending to the margin of the ochreous ocellated patch, which is 
bounded by a leaden-grey patch on its inner side, aud on its outer 
by a less wide white-grey subovate spot lying between it and the 
termen, which is also ochreous throughout bounded by a slender 
dark liue at the base of the cilia, which are slightly indented 
below the apex ; the ocelloid patch contains two black dots ; about 
the middle of the dorsum arises an inconspicuous leaden-grey 
patch, and the surface of the wing between the markings above 
described is minutely speckled with ochreous and fuscous scales ; 
cilia shining leaden grey. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind winjs brownish 
grey, with a slight greenish iridescence in certain lights ; cilia 
whitish grey, divided by a slight shade-line near their base. 
Abdomen leaden grey, with two darker cross-bauds near the base ; 
anal tuft paler. Legs shining leaden grey. 
Type, 6 Mus. Hedemann : $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Croix, 30 IV.-27 V. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann., Fontojjpidan) ; St. TnoiLis, 10-18 IV. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann), Six specimens. 
64. EucosMA, Hb. 
Type, Eucosma cireulana, Hb. 
EucosMA, Hb. Zutr. II. 28. figs. 363-4 (1823): Verz. bek. 
Schm. 374 (1826); Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 423 
(1863) [nee Mevr. HB. Br. Lp. 457-8 (1895)]; =Callimosema, 
Clem. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. V. 140-1. fig. 9 (1865). 
= EpiBLEMA,'Eh.\eTz. bek. Schm. 375-6 (1826); St ph. III. 
Br. Ent., Haust. IV. 92-3 (1834), 418 (1835): List Br. An. 
B.M., X. Lp. 46-7 (1852); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 490 (1895). 
Type, Tinea foenella, L. (Stph.). 
= P^DiscA, Tr. Schm. Eur. VIII. 188 (1830) ; Dp. Hist. 
Nat. Lp. Fr. IX. 22-3 (1834); Hein.; Stgr. & Wk. ; Fern. &c. 
Type, Tortrix solandriana, L. (Dp.). 
172. Eucosma iongipalpana, Mschl. 
Grapholiiha (Pcedisca) longipalpana, Mschl. Ah. Senck. Nat. 
Ges. XV. 333, 354 (1890) \ Pcedisca longipalpana, Wlsm. Pr. 
Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 506, 544 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — Portoeico ^'-. 
173. EtrcosMA STEENtrASA, Wkr. 
= EXVAGANA, Wkr. ° j ^FLAVOCELLANA, Clem.'^; =SUBrES.- 
SANA,2t!' 
GraphoUta stremtana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 383 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICBO-LEPIDOPTBRA. 127 
(1863)\ Gmpholita exvagana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 
383-4 (1863) '. Ster/amph/cha flavoceUana, Clera. Pr. Eat. Soc. 
Phil. V. 138 (1865) ^ GrapfioUtha suhversana, Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. 
Wien, XXV. 318-9 (1875) \ Pcedisca strenuana, Wlsm. III. Lp. 
Het. B.M. IV. 52, PI. LXXII. 4 (1879) ' ; Pera. Tr. Am. Ent. 
Soc. X. 40. No. 278 (1882) \ 
Hah. North America ^' ^' ' — United States ^'^'^ 27 VI.- 
3 YiL^ [larva, Amhrosia^^ West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto 
Plata, 16 V. — Oudmann). 
65. Cbocidosema, Z. 
174. Cbocidosema plebeiana, Z. 
= ALTHEANA, Mn. ^° J { = LArATERANA, Mill/ J =PEBEGBI- 
NANA, Mschl. '). 
Crocidosema plehejana, Z. Is. 1847, 721-2 \ Penthlna aUhemia, 
Mn. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, V. 555-6 (1855) ^ GraphoUtha 
altheana. Ld. Wien. Ent. Mts. III. 343 (1859)'. Crocidosema ple- 
bejana, Ld. Wien. Ent. Mts. III. 367 (1859) *. Pcedisca lavaterana, 
Mill. Ic. I. 290-3, PI. XXXIV. 9-13 (1863) \ Stecianoptyclia 
altheana, Hein. Scbm. Deutscb. Tort. 241 (1863)'. GraphoUtha 
pereyrinana, Mscbl. Berl. Ent. Zts. X. 139-40 (1866) ^ Stegano- 
ptijcha altheana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 260. No. 1221 (1871)". Croci- 
dosema plebejana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. 263. No. 1269 (1871) ^ 
Steganopti/cha altheana, Mill. Cat. Lp. Alp. Mar. 290 (1875)^°. 
Hrtm. MT. Miinch. Ent. Ver. III. 191. No. 1221 (1879) ". Oroci- 
dosema plebeiana, Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. N.S.W. VI. 659-60 (1881) '^ 
Stegaaoptycha altheana, M.-P. & F.-T. Nat. Sic. VIIL 158 
(1889)". Crocidosema plebeiana, Whm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
506, 544 (1892) " ; Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. LXIIL 221. No. 1221 
(1894) ^ 
Hah. Europe ^"^^ [larva, Althea fos^rt ^' "■"■'- ; Lavatera arborea 
'•''''\ IX.-IL"; Imago, II.-V.", IX.^'^]. Australia, XII.-IIL, 
VII."'''. West Indies— St. Croix, 5-31 V. (Hedemann, Pontop- 
pidan) ; St. Thomas, 18-23 III. (Gudmann) ; St. Vincent " ; 
Geenada (windward side — Balthazar, 250 ft.. La Force Estate, 
350 ft., and Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., 30 IIL-4 V. ; leeward 
side— Mount Gay Estate, 300 ft., 1-5 X., H. H. Smith). Bred by 
Mr. Gudmann, but the plant not identified. Bbazil"; Peru'*; 
Argentine Republic ". 
66. Stbepsicrates, Meyr. 
§ Strepsicesos, Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. VI. 678-9 
(1882). Strepsicrates^ Meyr. Tr. N. Z. Inst. XX. 73 (1887). 
175. Strepsicrates smithiana, Wlsm. 
Strepsicrates smithiana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 506-7, 
544 (1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies— ^t. Croix, 9 V. {Hedemann); Dominica''; 
128 LORD WALSINGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 
St. Lucia (Point Michell, Castle Bruce, 15 11., 30 IX.) ; St. Vin- 
cent ^ ; GrRENADA (Balthazar. 250 ft., windward side, 5-20 IV. — 
H. H. Smith). 
Baron von Hedemann observes that this species was bred 
by Mr. Gudmann, but does not mention the name of the plant. 
No specimen was included iu the collection sent to me by 
Mr. Gudmann. 
67. Balbis, g. u. 
(/3o\/3ts=a starting point.) 
Type, Garpocapsa assumjptana, Wkr. 
Antenna less than |, stout, simple. 
Palpi porrect ; second joint slightly curved, moderately clothed ; 
apical joint blunt, exposed, projecting forward. 
Bcmstdlum short. 
Head roughly clothed above. 
Thorax smooth, \^dth hair-pencil arising beneath base of costa 
(appressed to side, but probably expansible, as in Episimus). 
Fore tuings, J without a costal fold ; costa slightly arched at base, 
somewhat straight beyond, thence rounded to the depressed apex, 
termen not sinuate, tornus rounded. Neiiration : 12 veins, all 
separate ; 2 from before three-fourths, 7 to termen. 
Hind wings evenly rounded, not sinuate beneath apex. Neura- 
tion : 8 veins ; 6 and 7 remote at origin, parallel ; 8 approximated 
to radius : 3 and 4 connate ; 5 almost sti-aight, but somewhat 
approximated to 4. 
Legs, hind tibife smooth. 
Agreeing with Dichrorampha and Li^joptgdm in having 6 and 7 
of the hind wings parallel, but differing in the palpi and in the 
unsinuate termen, and probably intermediate between these 
genera and Laspeyresia, Hb. ( = Grapholitha, HS.). 
176. Balbis assumptana, Wkr. 
Carpocapsa assumptana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIIl, 
406 (1863) \ 
Hah. Brazil (Ega) \ "West Indies — Grenada (Grand Etaug, 
1900 ft., windward side, 30 Y.—H. H. Smith). 
177. Balbis albicapitana, Wlsm. 
Coptoloma ? albicapitana, "Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 505-6, 
544 (1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies — St. Vincekt \ 
178. Balbis? litens, Wlsm. 
Grapholitha livens, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 504-5, 543 
(1892)\ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 
This species is probably rightly referred, to this genus, but the 
type was headless when received. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEKA. 129 
179. BaLBIS riGUEANA, Z. 
GrrapJioIitJia (Cojitoloma ?) Jlgurana, Z. Hor. Soc. Eat. Ross. 
XIII. 163-5, PI. II. 55 (1877) \ Coptoloma Ifiijurana, Wlsm. 
Pr. Z. Soc.Lond. 1891, 50.5, 544 (1892) ^ 
Hah. West Indies-ST. Thomas '^ 17 XII.\ 18 IV. (one 
specimen, Gudmann). 
180. Baleis ? excitana, Mschl. 
Grapholitha earitana, Mschl. Ab. Seuck. Nat. Ges. XV. 333-4, 
354 (1891) '. Gra2)holit7ia ? excitana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 
1891,505,543(1892)% 
Hah, West Indies — Poetobico ' ' -. 
I am unacquainted with this species, but it probably belongs 
here, as the genus to which Moschler referred it does not appear 
to occur in the West Indies. 
68. EtrcELis, Hb. 
Type, Pyralis anrana, E. (Hb.). 
EtiCELis, Hb. Verz. bek. Scbm. 394 (1826) ;=iTrycseris, Gn. 
Ind. Meth. 56 (1845), vide Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895, 
516-7. 
=^Efinotia, Meyr. {nee Hb.) HB. Br. Lp. 516 (1895). 
Li 1834 Stephens constituted Pcedisca simidana, Hb., the type 
of Epinotia, and Meyrick's genus does not contain any of Hiibner's 
types. 
181. EUCELIS ? LITSTEOMAEGIKATA, sp. n. 
Antetimv stone-grey. Head and palpi stone-ochreous. Fore 
u'ings stone-colour, transversely striated with brownish fuscous, 
giving the whole wing a speckled and streaked appearance; among 
many more slender lines two may be especially distinguished, 
although both broken and ill-defined, the first commencing on the 
costa at one-third from the base, augulated outwards above the 
middle and reverting to the dorsum almost at a right angle ; the 
second commencing on the middle of the costa, also outwardly 
rectangular above the middle, nearly parallel with the first, but 
slightly diverging toward the dorsum, which it reaches before the 
commencement of the cilia ; between these lines is a lustrous steel- 
grey sheen above the middle ; a series of geminated white 
streaklets along the costa, with some lustrous lines and a row 
of 4 or 5 black spots along the termen, the upper one being at the 
apex ; cilia shining steel -grey. Exp), al. 9 mm. Hind wings greyish 
fuscous, strongly iridescent in certain lights ; cilia shining steel- 
grey. (Underside of both wings biilliantly iridescent.) Abdomen 
grey. Legs greyish. 
Type, 5 Mus. Gudmann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 4 V. (Hedemann). Unique. 
In the absence of the male this species cannot be referred with 
certainty to the genus Eucelis, and it differs from the type in 
having veins 3 and 4 of the hind wings coincident. 
Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. IX. 9 
& 
130 LORD W.VLSINGHAM OX [Jan. 19, 
69. Ctdia, Hb. 
Type, Tinea pomonella, L. (Stph.). 
CiDiA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 375 (1826) ; Stph. 111. Br. Ent., 
Haust. IV. 119 (1834), 418 (1835). 
= Cabpocapsa, Tr. Schm. Eur. VII. 231 (1829); Hein. ; Stgr. 
& Wk. Cat. ; Meyr. &c. 
Hiibner proposed the genus C'ljdia for the three species — 
pomonella, L. (=2^omonana, Hb.), aspidiscana, Hb., and liohen- 
luartiana (Scliiff.), Tr. {=monetnlana, Hb.). Treitschke (Schm. 
Eur. VII. 231 [1829]) t^XhwA pomonella in his genus C'«»;pocajjsa, 
and (l. c. 232) aspidiscana and liolmiwavtlana in Grapholitha, Tr. 
One . of these two genera must fail as a synonym of Ciidia. 
Stephens (111. Br. Ent., Haust. IV. 119 [1834])', writing under the 
heading Catpocapsa, said : — " The three first species " (i. e. pomo- 
nella, splendana, and (jrossana) " form the true Carpocajiso' of 
Treitschke — C'ydia of Hiibner." The only species common to 
Hiibner and Stephens, and which consequently was regarded as 
Hiibner's type, is pomonella, L. Stephens \l. c. 119-20 (1834), 
418 (1835)] under C'ydia includes both pomonella and aspidiscana • 
but he had already indicated that he did not regard aspidiscana as 
the type, and in List Br. An. B.M. X. Lp. 54 {lSb2), pomonella 
appears as the sole type of C'ydia, the subsequent reference of 
aspidiscana to Cydia (I. c. 93) is ruled out, pomonella having 
already been constituted the type. 
182. Ctdia ? flavicollis, sp. n. 
Antennce stone-grey. Palpi projecting slightly beyond the head, 
of uniform thickness throughout, the second joint not brush-like ; 
canary -yellow. Mead and face canary-yellow. Thorax stone-grey, 
anteriorly with a lilac iridescence extending over the tegulte. 
Fore wings stone-grey, with a slight lilac tinge along the costa 
nearly to its middle, beyond the middle obliquely banded with 
tawny fuscous and white, the latter appearing in about six wedge- 
shaped streaks of which the outer one is curved to the termen, 
reaching a slight indentation below the apex ; an elongate tawny 
fuscous patch stands erect a little beyond the middle of the dorsum, 
its inner edge pale-margined ; it is terminated at its upper 
extremity by two short ochreous Hues, which separate it at the 
upper edge of the cell from the first oblique costal shade ; beyond 
this erect patch the lower two-thirds of the wing-surface are 
transversely streaked with silvery metallic, preceding a triangular 
patch of reddish ferruginous, extending upwards from the tornus 
along the termen, and slightly tiaging the extreme apex ; cilia 
shining silvery-grey. Underside strongly iridescent, with five 
white costal streaks showing through. Exp. al. 15 mm. Hind 
wings brownish fuscous ; cilia pale bluish grey. Underside strongly 
iridescent. Abdomen dark leaden grey. Legs bone-whitish, tarsal 
joints banded with fuscous. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 131 
Type, $ Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 9 III. {Hedemann). Unique. 
Though I have little doubt that this species belougs to the genus 
Ot/clia, it cannot be referred there with certainty in the absence 
of the male. 
70. Heligmocera, Wlsm. 
183. Heligmocera calvifrons, Wlsm. 
Heligmocera calvifrons, Wlsm. Pr. Z. See. Lond. 1891, 508, 544, 
PI. XLI. 5 a-d (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies— St. Vijj^cent ^ ; G-renada (Balthazar, 
250 ft., windward side, 15 III.-S \.—H. H. Smith). 
II. TOBTEICINM. 
71. OXTGRAPHA, Hb. 
^Peronea, Crt. Br. Ent. I. expl. PI. XVI. (1825). Type, Pyralis 
cristana, T. (Crt.). 
fOxiGSAPSA, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 386 (1826). Type, Toririx 
literana, L. (Hb.). 
iOxxGEAPHA, Wilk. Br. Tortr. 160 (1859). 
Teras, Hein. ; Stgr. & Wk. Cat. ; Fern. &c. {nee Tr. + Dp.). 
AcALLA, Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 519-20 (1895) {nee Hb. + Stph.). 
Peronea, Crt., is the oldest name for the genus, but it is too 
close to Peroncm, Poli, 1795. Oxigrajjilia, Hb. (corrected to 
Oxygrapha by Wilkinson), was monotypical from its publication, 
and should therefore be chosen in preference to any other name 
proposed for species of this genus by Hiibner. Teras, Tr., is 
synonymous with Bhacodia, Hb., its type being caudana, P., 
following Curtis (1831) and Duponchel (1834), the latter citing the 
type. The type of Acalla, Hb., was fixed as Torfrix optlitlialmi- 
cana, Hb. (a Pcedisca), by Stephens in 1834 {vide 111. IV. 141). 
The three following species differ from the type in having 3 and 
4 of the fore wings stalked and 3 and 4 of the hind wings coin- 
cident ; at present I am unwilling to separate them generically 
from Oxygrapha. 
184, Oxygrapha negans, sp. n. 
Antenna brownish. Palpi short, suberect, apical joint exposed, 
second joint loosely clothed ; rusty brownish. Head rust-brown. 
Thorax olive- grey with a greenish tinge. -Fore wings olive-grey 
with a greenish tinge, the costa shining pale bronzy-brown 
throughout, the termen and cilia the same ; an obhque series of 
raised fuscous scales extends from the costa before the midcUe in 
a slightly outwardly bowed line towards the middle of the dorsum : 
this is followed beyond the middle by ill-defined, scarcely visible, 
parallel Hues of pale brown (not iridescent, but appearing only in 
certain lights). Exp. al. 16 mm. Hiiid wings trapezoidal ; umber- 
brown, with a pale line along the base of the umber-brown cilia, 
9* 
132 ioRT> WALSINGHAM oy [Jan. 19, 
which are grey on their outer half. Abdomen umber-brown. Legs 
cinereous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Gudmann. 
Eah. West Indies— Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 22 Y.— Gudmann). 
One specimen. 
185. OXYGRAPHA MONOCHROMA, Sp. n. 
Antemuf fuscous. P«?;/«' suberect, apical joint exposed ; reddish 
brown, shghtly paler than the colour of the head. Bead reddish 
brown! Thorax bro\^-nish fuscous: underside pale cinereous. 
Fore wings reddish brown, with slightly paler motthngs on the 
outer half, and a slight shinmg greyish shade preceded by a 
slender ferniginous line before the termen ; cilia reddish brown. 
Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind u'ings dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 
fuscous : underside pale cinereous. Legs cinereous shaded with 
fuscous. 
Ty2}e, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
ffab. West Indies— Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 22-24 Y.— Gud- 
mann). Two specimens. 
186. OXTGEAPHA ROTUSBIPENNIS, Sp. n. 
Antenmp cinereous. Paljn projecting less than the length of 
the head beyond it : dusky cinereous, ffead cinereous. Thorax 
tawny cinereous. Fore wings abruptly arched near the base, of 
approximately even width throughout, the apex and termen 
evenly rounded, the costa roughened from base to apex ; tawny 
reddish, A\ith a faintly indicated oblique greyish-fuscous shade 
from before the middle of the costa, extending to the lower edge 
of the cell ; a similar curved shade before the apex ; waved lines 
of sLiblustrous scales are visible on the outer half of the wmg in 
certain lights ; a small black dot at the end of the cell ; cilia 
shining reddish grey. Exj). «?. d 10, $ 11 mm. Hind ivings 
trapezoidal ; greyish fuscous ; cilia very long and slightly paler. 
Ahdomen greyish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. ; ? 31us. Hederaann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 8-22 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Three specimens. 
" The larva feeds on Acacia arabica, joining two leaves together, 
between which it lives as in a sort of case " (Hedemann). 
In the male the colour of the fore wings is dull fawn ochreous, 
the ta\
y gloss almost entirely confined to the two darker 
markings, which are much more conspicuous than in the female. 
The antennae are slightly serrate and pubescent beneath. 
72. Apinogiossa, Mschl. & Saalm. 
187. Apinoglossa combtjeana, Mschl. 
Apinoglossa combiirana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 331, 
354 (1894)'; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 496, 543 (1892)^. 
Hah. West Indies — Portorico'% 
1897.] WEST-DfDIAIf MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA.. 133 
73. TOUTEIX, L. 
188. TORTEIX ? EFFCETANA, Mschl. 
Tortrix effcetana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 330, 354 
(1890) \ Tortrix ? efcetmut, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 497, 
543 (1892) -\ 
Hub. "West Indies — Poetobico'-^ 
189. ToETEix? iNSiGiriTATfA, Mschl. 
Tortrix instgnitana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 330-1, 
354 (1890)'. Tortrix? insiffnitana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 
1891, 497, 543 (1892) -. 
JIab. West Indies — Poetoeigo '-. 
74. Aechips, Hb. 
Type, Tortrix jpicecma, L. (Hb.). 
Aechips, Hb. Tent. (1806). 
= Cac(Ecia, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 388 (1826) ; Hein., Stgr. & 
Wk., Pern., Meyr., &c. 
190. Aechips jamaicana, Wkr. 
Teras jamaiccma, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 291 
(1863)'. Oaccecia jatnaicana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 497, 
543 (1892) 2. 
iTaS. West Indies — .Jamaica'". 
75. Ptychamoebia, Wlsm. 
191. Ptxchamoebia catenana, Wlsm. 
Ptychamorbia catenana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 498-9, 
543 (1892) \ 
Hub. West Indies — Sr. VmcENi ' ; Geenada (La Porce Estate, 
350 ft., windward side, 5 V. — H. H. Smith). Beazil — Espiritu 
Santo ', Santa Catherina (^Mus. Wlsm,). 
The specimen from Gj-enada is a male, and confirms my con- 
jecture that it would only possess eleven veins in the fore wings. 
It differs, however, from exustana in not having a mat of scales on 
the basal portion of the antennae. I have also received both sexes 
from Santa Catherina. 
76. Ceeatoeehineta, Z. 
(t Ceborrhineta, Z. ; JCeeatoeehinexa, Wlsm.) 
192. Ceeatoeehineta calidana, Z. 
Cerorrhineta calidana, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 116-7 
(1877) \ Ceratorrhineta calidana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
500, 543, PI. XLI. 2 a-e (1892) \ 
Hal. West Indies— Cuba '--. 
134 toED wALSiNGflAM ON [Jan. 19, 
77. Platynota, Clem. 
193. Platynota flatedana, Clem. 
= CONCUItSANA, Wkr. "; =LATERANA, Rbs.' 
Platymta flavedana, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 348 
(I860)'. Tortric conmrmna, Wkr. Cat. Lp. lus. B.M. XXVIII. 
324-5 (1863)-. TortrLv faveclana, Ebs. Tr. Am, Ent. Soc. II. 
278, PL VI. 55, d (1869) ^" TortrLv laterana, Kbs. Tr. Am. Eut. 
Soc. II. 278, PI. VI. 56, $ (1869)-'. Tortrix (PlaUfnota) flavedana, 
Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 236-7 (1875) \ Flatynota 
flavedana, Wlsm. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. B.M. IV. 11 (1879)° ; Peru. 
Tr. Am. Eut. Soc. X. 22. Xo. 113(1882)' ; Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr., 
Ep. V. 425, 651 (1890) ^ 
Hah. United States ''^, 15-18 VII. '^ [Larva, Clover'', Rosa% 
Sassafras qflicinale''^, Acer^-^']. West Indies — IIayti (Port-au- 
Priuce, 25 V. — Gudmann); St. Thomas, 10 IV. (Gudmann). 
This species has a long costal fold. 
194. Platynota eepandana, Wkr. 
Tcras repandana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIIl. 292 
(1863)'. Platynota repandana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
499,543 (1892)=. 
Hah. West Indies — San Domingo'-. 
This species has a long, straight, costal fold. 
195. Platynota kostkana, Wkr. 
=.nESTiTUTANA, Wkr. ' ; =coNNEXANA, W^kr.* 
Teras rostrana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 290 (1863) '. 
Teras restiiutana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 292 (1863)-'. 
Teras connexana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 293 (1863)-'. 
Platynota rostrana, Wlsm. III. Typ. Lp. Het. B.i\I. IV. 5-G, 
PI. LXII. 1 (1879) ^ Tortrix rostrana, Cmstk. U.S. Dept. Agr., 
Rp. Ent. 1880, 253 (1881) ■'. Plati/ not a rostrana. Fern. Tr. Am. 
Ent. Soc. X. 22. Xo. 114 (1882)''' ;'Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
499, 543 (1892) ^ 
Hah. United States'^ — Florida^"' [Larva, Orauge*'''^ 
311.-11.^ 17V.'J West Indies— San Domingo '■=^'''; St. Vin- 
cent^ ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., and La Force Estate, 350 ft., 
windward side, 15 III.-5 V. — H. H. Smith). Venezuela ^' ^' ' ; 
Brazil (Ega)'••'■^ 
Walker's three species are represented by females indistinguish- 
able from each other, and until male topotypes have been obtained 
it will be impossible to determine whether they represent one or 
more species — probably each matches a male oi the flavedana group 
occurriug with it. I referred the St. Vincent specimens (both 
females) to rostrana with some diffidence, and the reception of 
both sexes from Grenada only does not enable me to clear up the 
synonymy as confidently as I should desire. The males from 
1897.] WEST-IKDIAN MiORO-LEPIDOPTERA. ISB 
Grenada liave a short fold and much resemble labiosana, Z., but 
are smaller. 
196. Plattnota beeviplicaka, sp. n. 
Antetmce dark brown. Paljn brownish ochreous. Head and 
thorax brownish ochreous. Fore ivings with a short brownish- 
ochreous basal patch, somewhat indented on the fold ; the costal 
fold in the male not extending bej'^ond this pale patch, which 
reaches only to one-fourth the wing-length (in the more northern 
s'pecies Jlavedana, Clem., it extends to half the wing-length) ; the 
whole of the middle portion of the wing is overclouded by a broad 
dark umber-brown band, beyond which the terminal portion is 
shining whitish ochreous with two sinuate lines of slightly raised 
scales ; there are also some raised scales on the dark central band, 
notably in an oblique line fi'om its upper and inner angle ending 
in a strong patch near the outer end of the fold and in a small 
patch at the outer end of the cell ; cilia pale cinnamon- brown on 
their basal, brownish ochreous on their outer half. Exp. al. 15 mm. 
Hind wings cinnamon-brown, blending to ochreous towards the 
base ; ciha shining pale cinnamon-brown. Abdomen cinnamon- 
brown. Legs brownish ochreous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15-20 IV. — H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 
197. Platynota diminutana, sp. n. 
Antennce dark greyish brown. Palpi somewhat curved down- 
wards ; apical joint less than half the length of the second ; grey- 
brown. Head and thorax rust-brown. Foi-e vjings : male with a 
short costal fold extending to one-fourth ; rust-brown, with a 
broad central band, thickly mottled with purplish fuscous in which 
is an oblique line of raised scales ending on the fold, and a second 
line, shorter and more oblique, from beyond the middle of the 
costa where it is accompanied by a dark patch ; a small patch of 
dark fuscous scales lies near the base of the dorsum ; cilia ferru- 
ginous brown on their basal half, pale ochreous on their outer half. 
Ex^j. al. 14 mm. Hind ivings cinnamon-brown, tending to 
ochreous towards the base ; cilia shining pale cinnamon-brown. 
Abdomen brownish ochreous. Legs pale ochreous. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Geeu^ada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 15 IV. — H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 
This species differs from hreviplicana in the more broken or 
mottled appearance of the central band, which almost assumes the 
form of an oblique fascia followed by a costal patch, and in the 
darker ferruginous terminal portion of the wmg. It is quite con- 
ceivable that it may be a variety of hreviplicana, but I am strongly 
inclined to regard it as distinct in the absence of intermediate 
forms. Except in the colour of the hind wings it approaches 
somewhat closely the Mexican species stuUana, "Wlsm. 
136 LORD WALSiNGHAM ON [Jan 19, 
78. CoELOSTATHMA, Clem. 
Type, Ccdostathma (Hscopunctata, Clem. (Clem.). 
CojLOSTATHMA, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 355 (1860). 
= *AMPmsA, Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 22 (1882), nee Crt. 
I cannot agree with Professor Fernald in sinking Ccelostathma 
as a synonym of Aniphisa, Crt., which has veins 7 and 8 of the 
fore wings stalked and 9 separate, whereas Gcelostathma has 7 and 
8 stalked out of 9. 
198. 0(ELOSTATHMA PAHALLELANA, Sp. n. 
Antennce biciliate, 2| ; cream-colour. Palpi projecting rather 
more than the length of the head beyond it ; cream-coloured ; 
second joint shaded with fawn-brown externally. Head and 
thorax cream-colour. Fore ivings and cilia cream-coloured, with a 
dark fawn-brown band from before the middle of the costa to the 
middle of the dorsum, variable in breadth and distinctness, some- 
times difEused or dilated outwards below the middle; this is 
followed by a second narrower band, commencing on the costa at 
one-fourth from the apex and reaching to the tornus ; a single 
black dot lies at the end of the cell between veins 5 and 6. Exp. 
al. 12 mm. Himl ivings pale fawn-grey with a slight reddish 
tinge. Abdoraen cream-coloured, shaded with grey across the 
middle. Legs creamy whitish. 
Ty2)e, d Mus. Hdm. ; $ Mas. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 4 IV.-14 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). " The larva feeds on Mimosa " {Hedemann). 
This species differs from Ccelostathma dAscojnmctana, Clem., in 
the form of the outer band, which is almost parallel with the first 
instead of being conspicuously curved inward at its upper 
extremity. Along the costa the intensity of the bands is variable, 
and in one female they are almost entirely obUterated, the wing- 
colour becoming pale fawn-ochreous instead of creamy. I cannot, 
however, doubt that it belongs to the same species. 
III. PHALONIANM. 
79. Phalonia, Hb. 
= \CocHTLifi, Tr., Stgr. Cat.; XConchtlis, Sdf., Fern,, &c. 
199. Phalonia iCHTnroc'HEOA, sp. n. 
Antenna' whitish cinereous. Palpi projecting nearly the length 
of the head beyond it ; whitish, shaded with brown externally. 
Head hoary. Thorax shining silvery whitish. Fore ivings 
shining silvery whitish ; a rust-brown shade along the base of 
the costa not extending to the dorsum ; a broken fascia com- 
mencing on the costa beyond the middle consists of a dark- 
margined rust-brown spot at its upper extremity and a larger 
rust-brown shade on its lower half, extending somewhat inwards 
and containing one or two patches of blackish scales ; the apical 
1897.] WEST-IITDIAK MICBO-LEPIDOPTEBA. 137 
portion of the wing is mottled with rust-brown mixed with blackish 
scales, forming a subapical transverse streak and a spot opposite to 
the middle of the termen ; minute blackish speckling is visible in 
the whitish cilia and along the dorsum as well as in a series of 
costal reticulations. Exp. al. 8-10 mm. Hind wings^dle brownish 
grey, with a slight pinkish reflection ; cilia paler. Abdomen pale 
brownish grey. Hind legs pale cinereous. 
Ti/pe, c? Mus. Wlsm. ; 2 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 26 IV. (Gudmaun) ; St. Thomas, 
1.5 III. (Hedemann) ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 5-10 IV. — H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 
200. Phalonia subolitacea, sp. n. 
Antenme whitish. PrtZ^:>i whitish, shaded with olivaceous on 
their outer sides. Head whitish. Thorax creamy whitish. Fore 
ivinr/s shining creamy white, shaded with olivaceous along the 
basal half of the costa ; an olivaceous band, descending straight 
from the middle of the costa, is angulated on the cell, reverting to 
the dorsum before the middle, at its angle is a small dot of black 
scales ; a small, oblique, olivaceous streak commences on the costa 
halfway between this and the apex, not quite attaining the middle 
of the termen, along which is a slight olivaceous shade, with a 
rounded patch of the same colour lying above the tornus and a 
small brownish dot below and before it at the commencement of 
the dorsal cilia ; cilia shining creamy whitish. Exj>. al. 10 mm. 
Hhid ivings pale smoky grey ; cilia whitish, shaded along their 
middle. Abdomen greyish; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. 
Ti/pe, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 26 IV.-7 V. ( Qudmann) ; 
St. Thomas, 7 III. -4 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Nine speci- 
mens. 
201. Phalonia distigmatana, sp. n. 
= Gonchylis sp. (near angulatana, E.bs.), Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 
Lond. 1891, 501, 543 (1892) \ 
Antennce ochreous. Paljn whitish ochreous, slightly shaded 
externally. Head and tJwi-ax whitish ochreous. Fo7-e wings 
whitish ochreous, with three dark fawn-brown costal spots and the 
extreme base of the costa also fawn-brown ; the first spot occurs 
at one-fourth from the base and almost meets an oblique streak of 
a slightly paler shade running outwards from the base of the 
dorsum ; the second is large and triangular, a little beyond the 
middle, its apex pointing outwards and scarcely separated from 
the apex of a similar dorsal triangle almost exactly opposite to it, 
but very slightly nearer to the base ; the third costal spot is very 
minute and less well-defined ; from this runs a paler fawn-brown 
band, outwardly to the termen below the apex and downwards 
along the terminal margin to the tornus ; a small brown spot at 
the end of the cell, almost between the apices of the costal and 
dorsal triangles, completes the wing-markings, with the exception 
138 LOHD WALSixGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
of some scarcely noticeable silvery lines in the apical half of the 
wing along the edges of the darker markings ; cilia pale ochreous. 
Ex}}. al. 9 mm. Hiiul winrjs and cilia greyish. Abdomen greyish. 
Legs whitish ochreous. 
Ti/jye, d Mas. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Croix, 25 VI. (Beclemann) ; St. Vin- 
cent (H. H. Smith) ' ; Grenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 13 IV.-4 Y. {H. H. Smith). Five specimens. 
I am unacquainted with the fallowing three species, and there- 
fore am unable to refer them to this genus with certainty. 
202. Phalonia ? PROLECTANA, Mschl. 
Cochylis jirolectana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XA'. 332, 
354 (1890) '. Conchylis prolectana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
500, 543 (1892)% 
Hab. West Indies — Poktorico'-. 
203. Phaxonia ? TECTONicA, Mschl. 
Cochylis tectonica, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XY. 332-3, 
354 (1890)'. Conchylis tectonica, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
501,543(1892)=. 
Bab. West Indies — Pohtorico' ^ 
204. Phalonta? ticinitana, Mschl. 
Cochylis vicinitana, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XY. 333, 
354 (1890) \ Conchylis vicinitana, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
501, 543 (1892) -. 
Hah. West Indies — Portorico'-. 
80. Thyraylia, g. 11. 
(t*i;pai»\m = living out of doors.) 
Type, Conchylis bunteana, Ebs. 
Antenna S shortly biciliate. 
Palpi moderate, porrect ; second joint roughly clothed ; apical 
joint short, blunt. 
Head roughly clothed. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore ivings : c5 a\ ithout a costal fold ; costa somewhat straight, 
i-ounded to the slightly depressed apex ; termen rather oblique, not 
sinuate beneath apex ; tornus rounded. Neuration : 12 veins all 
separate ; 2 from outer fourth of cell, 7 to costa above apex. 
Hind ivings slightly broader than the fore wings, trapezoidal ; 
apex and tornus rounded ; termen and dorsum subsinuate. 
Neuration : 8 veins ; 3 and 4 connate (or stalked), 5 almost 
straight but inchning to 4 towards base, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Hind leys smooth. 
Allied to Phtheochroa, Ht^h.^ConimOjihila, Meyr.), from which it 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LBPIDOPTEBA. 139 
differs in the much shorter palpi, in vein 7 of the fore wings 
attaining the costa before the apex, and in the absence of raised 
scales. It is possible that specimens in better condition might 
exhibit a slight thoracic tuft. 
205. Thyratlia btjnteana, Ebs. 
OoHchylis bimteana, Ebs. Tr. Am. Eat. Soc. II. 288, PI. VIII. 
86 (1869)'; Z. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXV. 245-6 (1875)=; 
Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 26. No. 144 (1882) ^ ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. 
Soc. Lond. 1891, 501, 543 (1892)^ 
Hab. United States ^'*. West Indies — St. Vincent \ 
206. Thyeaylia lepidana, Clem. 
Argyrolepia'^ lepidana, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 355 
(I860)'. Gonchylis lepidana, Ebs. Tr. Am. Eat. Soc. II. 287, 
PI. VIII. 84 (1869) ■ ■ Pern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 25. No. 142 
(1882) ^ 
Eab. United States'"'. West Indies — Jamaica (Kingston, 
17 VII. — Goclcerell) ; St. Ceoix, 6-18 V. {Gudmann, Hedemann, 
Pontojjjyidan). 
207. Thyeatlia lacteipalpis, Wlsm. 
Gonchylis lacteipalpis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 500, 543 
(1892)'. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent i. 
IX. TINEID^. 
I. 0P08TEGINM. 
81. Opostega, Z. 
208. Opostega abeupta, sp. n. 
{Head missing.) Thorax shining white. Fore luings shining 
white, with pale bluish reflections ; before the apex a pale fawn- 
brown costal streaklet, tending obliquely outwards, is dark-margined 
on both sides, this runs nearly parallel with the upper half of a 
slender dark line in the apical cilia which is continued around the 
termen, with a slight inclusion opposite the apex of the wing, below 
which is a small reduplicated black dot ; the cilia beyond the dark 
line which runs through them are fawu-brown, their basal half 
white along the termen and gradually shading to fawn-brown on 
the dorsum. On the underside the brown outer ends of the apical 
cilia are plainly Adsible. Exp. al. 5*5 mm. Hind luings and cilia 
shining pale fawn-broA^ni. Abdomen shining fawn-brown. Hind 
legs pale fawn-brownish, the bristles strongly developed. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 19 III. {Hedemann). Unique. 
Although the head is missing, it is easy to decide that this is an 
undescribed species of the genus to which I refer it. 
140 LOED WALSINGHAM oif [Jan. 19, 
209. Opostega ADtrsTA, sp. n. 
Antennce with a broad shining white ej^ecap on the basal joint ; 
beyond pale fawn -brownish. Pal2n pale favvn-browuish. ITead 
and thorax shining white. Fore wimjs shiuing white, with blue 
and lilac reflections : a conspicuous umber-brown dorsal spot 
at about one-third from the base ; a narrow dark umber-brown 
shade along the costa a little beyond the middle is continued 
to the commencement of the costal cilia ; a slender fuscous line 
beginning in these runs obliquely outwards through the ciha 
forming an angle at the apex of the \^ing, thence deflected along 
the termen ; this is reduplicated by a slight shade in the middle of 
the fawn-brown cilia beyond it, its upper half preceded by a slight 
ferruginous tinge running parallel with it from costa to apex; cilia 
shining pale fawn-brownish along the dorsum and toruus. Under- 
side spotless. E,vp. al. 5 mm. Hind u'ings and cilia pale fawn- 
brownish. Abdomen (somewhat denuded) shining pale brownish. 
Hind legs shiuing pale brownish ochreous, the bristles continued to 
the tarsal joint. 
I'yj^e, d Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 20 III. (Hedemann). Unique. 
210. Opostega tenticola, sp. n. 
Antennce golden yellow ; eyecaps shining white. Pcdpi white. 
Head and thorax shining white. Fore wings shining white, with two 
minute oblique fuscous costal streaklets followed by a short straight 
one before the apex, all tending to converge in the direction of a 
single black point in the apical cilia ; the space between the first 
and second streak is golden yellow, which extends also to the black 
point but not to the dorsum or tornus ; a very narrow faint golden 
spot rests on the middle of the dorsum ; beyond the black point a 
slight shade is visible in the cilia, which are other
se white with 
a golden tinge. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind ivings whitish gi'ey ; cilia 
golden white. Abdomen white with a golden tinge. Legs : hind 
tibiae and basal joints of the tarsi with stiff hairs ; whitish 
ochreous. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. "West Indies — IIatti (Port-au-Prince, 23 V., Gudmann) ; 
Geenada (Balthazar, 250-300 ft., windward side, 5IV.-8V. — 
H. H. Smith). Four specimens. 
211. Opostega saltateix, sp. n. 
Antennce with a conspicuous shining white eyecap ; remaining 
joints pale straw. Pal^n small, slender, dependent; yellowish. 
Head and thorax shining white. Fore wings shiuing white, with a 
dark olive-grey fascia before the middle, diffused outwards at its 
upper end to the middle of tlie costa ; this is followed by a streak 
of the same colour, along the apical portion of the costa, reaching to 
the apex ; a slender strealr above it running through the cilia and 
meeting it beyond the apex, this streak is sometimes very incon- 
spicuous ; cilia pale olive-grey. Eap. cd. 5 mm. Hind ivinys very 
1897.1 WEST-ITS^DIAN MICRO-LBPIDOPTERA.. 141 
narrow ; pale olive-grey ; cilia the same. Abdomen greyish. Legs : 
hind tibiae with profuse spiny hairs above ; pale greyish. 
Type, c? Mus. Wlsrn. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 18 III.-2 IV. (Gttdmann, 
Hedemann). Three specimens. 
" In repose the moth resembles a Cicada and springs forwards " 
(Hedemann). 
II. BENDEONEURINM. 
82. Dendboneuka, TNHsm. 
212. Dekdeoketiba pb^istajsts, Wlsm. 
Dendroneura prcestans, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soe. Lond. 1891, 510, 544, 
PI. XLI. 6, a-c (1892) \ 
Hob. West Indies — St. Vii^^CEJfx ' ; G-benada (windward side, 
Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., Balthazar, 250 ft., 13-20 IV.— IT. H. 
Smith). 
213. Deistdboneura simplex, sp. n, 
Antennce rather shorter than the fore wings ; pale yellowish 
fawn. Paljn short, flattened ; apical joint subovate, broader than 
the second ; pale yellowish fawn. Head and thorax pale fawn. 
Fore ivings shining, pale yellowish fawn, with a bright yellowish 
ferruginous spot before the apex, preceded by two oblique fuscous 
streaks, one from a little beyond the middle of the dorsum, the 
other commencing a little beyond it on the costa, the two nearly 
meeting outwardly at their extremities (these appear to be com- 
posed of very fugiti\e scales and are easily obliterated) ; beyond 
the ferruginous spot a dark fuscous (almost black) slender curved 
line passes from the apex through the silvery-yellowish cilia giving 
a slight uncate appearance, tornal cilia yellowish grey. Kvp. al. 
8 mm. Hind wings and cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen pale 
greyish. Legs shining straw-whitish. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Sajj Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V., Giid- 
mann). Two specimens. 
This differs from p^rcfstans, Wlsm., the only other known species 
of the genus, in the apparent absence of the tuft of long hair-scales 
arising beneath the eyes, which, so far as I am able to determine, 
does not exist in this species ; but such structures ai-e often only 
displayed in individual specimens, and in others are completely 
hidden away. 
III. LYONETIANM. 
83. Leucopteea, Hb. 
Leucopteea, Hb. Verz. bek. Schm. 426 (1826). 
= GemiostomAj Z. Lin. Ent. ni. 272-3 (1848). 
214. Lextcopteba coepeeila, Guer.-Men. & Prrott. 
=NocTUELLA, Mdnr." 
Elachista coffeella, Guer.-Men. & Prrott. Mem. Ins. Cafiers 
Antill. 1-32, PI. I.-II. (1842) ' ; Eev. Zool. 1842, 126-7 ' ; Ann. 
142 LOBD WALSINGUAM ON [Jan. 19, 
Soc. Ell*. Fr. XI. Bull. ii. (1842) \ Bucadatrix sp., Stn. Eut. 
Wk. Int. IV. 70 (1858) '. Cemiostoma coffeella, Stn. Ent. WJi. 
Int. X. 110-11 (1861)'. Elacliista coffeella, Nietn. Obs. Enemies 
Coffee-tree Ceylon, 24 (1861) " : (2 edn.) 18 (1872) ' noc- 
tuella, Madinier, Eev. Agr. Imp. Ehmiinense Agr. No. 3, p. 29 et 
seq. (]8. . ) '. Cemiostoma coffeellum, P. Maun, Am. Nat. VI. 332- 
41, 596-607, PI. V. (1872) \ Elacliista coffeella, Nietn. (Green's 
edn.) Obs. Enemies Coffee-tree Ceylon, 16 (1880) ^ 
Larva sup. Coffea arahica '". Pupa in hammock (teste fig.) •_ 
Hai. West Indies — GuADELOirpE, larva and imago, I.-XII.'''*; 
Martinique'''. Brazil— Vassouras (Prov. Rio Janeii'o, intro- 
duced from Antilles), larva and imago, III.-VI." 
No. 7 is quoted from Mann (No. 8), as I have not been able to 
find a copy of the work in London, where indeed the title appears 
to be unknown, and I should be grateful to anyone who could tell 
me where it was published. The second edition of Nietner cited 
above appears to have been OA'ei-looked ; there is a copy in the 
British Museum. 
84. COMPSOSCHEMA, g. n. 
(k-o^(i//os= elegant ; (TX"7/<a = form.) 
Type, Comiisoscliema himarffiiiellum, Wlsm. 
Aniennre slightly longer than the fore wings, somew^hat stout, 
simple ; basal joint with a rather large eyecap. Labial palpi 
slender, dependent ; apical joint as long as second. Maxillary 
palpi obsolete. Haustellnm almost obsolete. Head and face 
smooth. Thorax smooth. Fore ivings somewhat dilated from 
the base outwards, apex depressed, rounded, termen slightly 
sinuate beneath the apex. Neuration : 9 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, 
7 to costa shghtly above apex ; 3, 4, and 6 absent. Hind wings 
(I) elongate-acuminate, evenly attenuated from base ; cilia 4. 
Neuration : 5 veins, without a cell (radial and cubital veins 
coincident) ; 3 absent, 4 absent, 6 and 7 coincident. Jjegs : hind 
tibiae with somewhat long hairs. 
Allied to Lyonetia, Hb. 
215. COMPSOSCHEMA BIMARGINELLUM, Sp. n. 
Antennce yellowish white, eyecaps snow-white. PaZjji white. 
Head and thorax snow-white. Foi-e wings shining white, a slender 
outwardly oblique dorsal streaklet from one-half reaches nearly 
across the wing ; this is dark brown, with a golden sheen along 
its inner margin ; some very faint golden-yellow mottling is 
visible on the apical half of the wing, and there is a minute black 
spot at the extreme apex ; the long whitish cilia, which give the 
end of the wing a much v^ idened appearance, are marked by two 
dark brown lines running through them, the first at the base, the 
other beyond their middle — these both pass around the apex to the 
costal cilia and reach well through the tornal ciha. Exp. al. 6 mm. 
Hind wings and cilia pale greyish. Abdomen brownish above. 
1897.] WfiST-UfDIVW MICRO-LEPIDOPTEttA. 143 
Legs : hind tibiae clothed with somewhat long whitish hairs ; tarsi 
white, basal joint distinctly marked with f us cous. 
Type, S Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12-16 III. (Gudm-inn, Hecle- 
mann). Three specimens. 
85. CoPTODiscA, "Wlsm. 
^AspiDiscA, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 11-12, 209 
(1860) ; Stn. Tin. N. Am. 104-5 (fig.), 143 (1872). 
CoPTODiscA, Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXI. 41 (1895). 
216. COPTODISCA BHIZOPHOBiE, sp. n. 
Antennce and ixdpi silvery. Head : face silvery, the head above 
with a golden sheen. Fore wings golden yellow, with a pair 
of silvery-vihitish costal and dorsal streaks beyond the middle (the 
dorsal somewhat preceding the costal), both dark-margined before 
and behind ; a very oblique silvery costal streak, also dark- 
margined, occurs at one-third from the base, and before the apex 
is a small silvery costal spot, also dark-margined, its outer marginal 
streak extending downward through the terminal cilia beyoud a 
rounded velvety-black subterminal dot ; ciha silvery whitish, with 
a curved line along their base from the tornus to the subterminal 
dot ; the dorsum slightly silvery. E,x-p. al. 3-5-4 mm. Hind, wings 
and cilia pale greyish. Abdomen greyish. Legs silvery. 
Co-types, (1-2) Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 15III.-30IV. {Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Four specimens. 
" The young larva mines in leaves of Rhizopliora mangle ; later 
on it cuts a case out of the leaves'" {Hedemann). Bred by Baron 
Ton Hedemann and Mr. Gudmann. Mr. Gudmann found a leaf 
containing twenty-four mines. 
Nearly allied to splendoriferella, Clem. 
86. Ctcloplasis, Clem. 
[Clem. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. II. 423-4 (1864); Stn. Tin. N. Am. 
246-8 (1872).] 
217. Ctcloplasis basiplagata, sp. n. 
Antennce shining greyish. Faljn and head silvery. Thorax 
pale fawn ; shining pale creamy-metallic beneath. Fore wings and 
costal cilia shining pale fawn, a short basal patch darker fawn- 
grey ; dorsal cilia greyish. Eap. al. 4 mm. Hind wings and cilia 
tawny greyish. Abdomen tawny grey : vmderside shining pale 
creamy metalHc. Legs pale fawn ; the spines on the tibiae and 
tarsi very distinct. 
Type, d Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, lOIII.-lOIV. {Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Two specimens. 
Larva in a case similar to that of a Coleophora {Hedemann) ; on 
144 LOBD WALSINGHAM ON [Jail. 19, 
Sida sp. (Gudmann). The moth holds the second pair of legs 
outstretched as in Statlimopoda (Hedemann). 
It is interesting to find a second species of this genus, originally 
described by Clemens from Pennsylvania. I have not had sufficient 
material to enable me to critically examine the structure of this 
genus, which is perhaps allied to Heliozela, HS. 
IV. BEDELLIAXM. 
87. BiTCCULATEIX, Z. 
218. BUCCULATEIX FLEXUOSA, sp. n. 
Antennce with a strong shining \\hite eyecap on the basal joint ; 
pale fawn, with minute darker annulations towards the apex. 
(P(dj)i obsolete.) Mead whitish, with a line of fawni-coloured hairs 
down the middle ; face shining white. Thorax' fawn, the tegulae 
with \vhite longitudinal streaks. Fore tuings fawn, with white 
lines — one from the base scarcely below the costa reaches to 
the end of the cell ; another following the extreme costa from 
the base is deflected to the end of the cell from about the 
middle of the wing-length, nearly reaching to a short longitudinal 
black streak beyond the outer end of the cell ; another white line 
from the base of the dorsum reaches along the fold to one-third, 
nearly joining a sinuous white line which, arising from before the 
middle of the dorsum, is waved upwards aud outwards, reverting 
to the tornus and thence overspreading the termen and cilia 
to below the apex ; there are two slender fawn-coloured dark lines 
running through the white cilia at aud above the apex. E.vj). ah 
5 mm. Hind vimjs pale greyish, cilia brownish grey. Abdomen 
greyish ochreons. L('(js fawn-M'bite, the tarsi minutely speckled 
with fuscous. 
Tiqje, d Mus. Wlsra. 
Bab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 8 III.-2 IV. (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Six specimens. 
Bred by chance in a glass containing some twigs of Acacia 
arabica, but the larva "was not observed {Gudmann). 
219. BUCCULATEIX TWIPITNCTA, sp. n. 
Anienncf whitish. {Palpi obsolete.) Head and thorax creamy 
white. Fore ivings creamy whitish, suffused and shaded with pale 
fawn-ochreous, especially along the base of the fold and along the 
outer two-thirds of the costa ; with a single strong black dot before 
the tei'miuation of the fold ; a short slender line runs through the 
apical cilia, and there are a few black scales at the extreme apex 
and at the base of the whitish cilia. £^rj). al. 6 mm. Hind 
winffs and cilia very pale yellowish grey. Abdomen shining, pale 
whitish ochreous. Legs whitish, tarsal joints minutely spotted 
with fuscous. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 12III.-3IV. {Hedemann), 
Two specimens. 
1897.] WEST-INDIAIf MICEO-LEPIDOPTEBA. 145 
88. TiSCHEBIA, Z. 
220. TiscHEEiA HELiopsiELLA, Chamb. 
■fHULiopsiSELLA, Chamb. (Jheliopsiella, Wlsm.'^)= s'OLCKEmi, 
Tischeria lieliopsisella, Chamb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. II. 113-4 
(1875) '. Tischeria nolcJcenii, ¥. & B. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXXVII. 
220 (1876)-. .Tischeria heliopsisella , Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. 
Surv. IV. 115 ^ 116*, 165 ' (1878). Tischeria nolcl-enii, F. & B. 
Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXXIX. 257 (1878) ^ Tischeria heliojisisella, 
Hgn. (& Frey) Pap. IV. 153 (1884) ''. Tischeria heliopsiella, 
Wlsm. Ins. Life, II. 325 (1890)': III. 389 (1891)='; EUey, Smith's 
List Lep. Bor. Am. 110. No. 5917 (1891)". 
Hah. United States '''"— Kentucky '■ " " ; Texas '•'■'*; CaH- 
fornia *. Larva, Ambrosia trifida and spp.''^''^''* ; Heliopsis Icevis 
and spp.''* ^ VII.^ VIII.^■^ IX.^ imago, VIII.^ summer and 
fall^ "West Indies — St, Thomas, 2 IV. {Guclmann). 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann, but the plant not identified. 
221. TiSCHEBIA UNICOLOE, sp. n. 
AntenncK greyish fuscous. Palpi ochreous. Head pale ochreous. 
Thorax brownish ochreous. Fore loings ochreous, with a very 
slight darkened shade at the extreme base of the costa and a faint 
reddish gloss (in some lights) towards the apex ; cilia concolorous 
with the wings. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind ivinys pale grey ; cilia 
reddish grey. Abdomen whitish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous. 
Type, S Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Ceoix, 5 V. (Gudmann). Unique. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann from larvae mining leaves of a tree 
which was not identified. 
222. TiSCHEBIA PULVEBEA, sp. n. 
Antennce, S with very long biciliations ; pale fuscous. Falpi 
short, straight, drooping ; whitish. Head and thorax fawn- 
yellowish. Fore wings pale fawn-yellowish, profusely sprinkled 
aroimd all the margins (but especially along the costa) with smoky- 
fuscous scales ; a slight indication of a dark dorsal mark before the 
tomrs ; cilia greyish. Exp. al. 5 mm. Hind ivings pale grey; cilia 
yellowish grey. Abdomen greyish. Legs unspotted, yellowish white. 
Ttjpe, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 15-30 IIL (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Two specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann, but the plant not identified. 
V. GEACILARIANM. 
89. LiTHOCOLLETIS, Hb. 
223. LiTHOCOLLETIS ? ALBIMACULA, Sp. n. 
Antennce cinereous, with a broad white band before the apex. 
{Palpi apparently broken in setting.) Head orange-ochreous, the 
Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. X. 10 
146 LORD WALSiNGUAM ON [Jan. 19, 
face silvery. Thorax dark bronzy brown. Fore ivincjs dark bronzy 
brown, witb two narrow transverse fasciaj, the one before, the 
other scarcely beyond the middle, and a short dorsal streak from 
the anal angle shining silvery metallic, a strong snow-white spot 
running through the costal cilia ; cilia bronzy brown. E.vp. al. 
7"5 mm. Bind ivhigs and cilia slightly paler bronzy brown. 
Abdomen purplish fuscous. Legs brownish : the tarsal joints 
broadly banded with whitish ; two small white spots at the end 
of the tibise. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 10 IV. {Hedemann). Unique. 
This species cannot be referred with certainty to LWiocolletis 
as the underside of the head is injured in pinning. 
224. LiTHOCOLLETIS DESMODIELLA, Clem. 
= GSEGASIELLA, Mrt.'" 
LithocoUetis desmodiella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc, Phil. XI. 318, 
319, 320 (1859) ' ; Stn. Tin. N. Am. pp. xiii, 37, 63, 65, 68 
(1872)^; Chamb. Can. Ent. III. 127, 162 (1871)': V. 47 
(1873)^ r.&B.Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXXVII. 227 (1876)' ; Chamb. 
Bull. r.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 110 ^ 154 (1878) ' : Jr. Cin. Soc. N. H. 
II. 189-90 (1880) ". LitJwcolletis gregariella, Mrt. Can. Ent. XIII, 
245-6 (1881) K LitJwcolletis desmodiella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 
X. 202 (1882) >°: Ins. Life, II. 119 (1889)": III. 328. No. 52 
(1891)''; Eilev, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 108. No. 5850 
(1891)". 
Hab. United States '*'''. Larva, inf. Desmodium viridiflorum 
'■''", spp. '■"■"; Phasoioliis 23auciJ!ori(s'-''\ sp.", VIL -IX."''\ 
Imago, spring'; midsummer ^ West Indies — St. Thomas, 
11 III.-IO IV. {Giidmann, Hedemann); Larva, Centrosema vir- 
ginianmn {Oudmann). 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann and Baron von Hedemann from larvse 
feeding on Centrosema virginianum. 
225. LiTHOCOLLETIS AEGENTIFRONTELLA, sp. U. 
Antennce brownish, faintly annulated. Palpi pale saffron. 
Head and face shining silvery white, the head with a saffron 
spot behind the white tuft. Thorax pale saffron. Fore ivings 
pale saffron, with four transverse white fascite, slenderly dark- 
margined internally : the first before the middle, slightly curved 
outwards, the second at the middle, straight, the third at the com- 
mencement of the costal cilia tending inwards to the dorsum, the 
fourth a little before the apex running through the cilia, which 
are saffron beyond it at the apex but greyish before it on the 
dorsum. Exp. al. 5 mm. Hind ivings and cilia pale greyish. 
Abdomen greyish. Legs white, with pale saffron annulations. 
Ty2)e, 6 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 11 III .-2 IV. (Hedemann). 
Two specimens. 
1897. j WEST-INDIAN M ICKO-LEPIDOPTBE A . 147 
226. LiTHOCOLlBTIS TENtriCAUDELLA, WIsm. 
Antennce saffron. Palpi whitish. Head pale saffron ; face 
silvery white. Thorax pale saffron. Fore ivings pale saffron, with 
four costal and dorsal streaks shining white, slightly dark-mar- 
gined before and behind : the first two costal streaks are con- 
spicuous and oblique (the first a little before the middle, the 
second a little beyond it), the third and fourth costal are very 
small immediately before the apex, their points turned slightly 
inwards ; the first dorsal arises on the middle, its apex reaching 
as far as that of the second costal, but it is much less clearly 
defined ; the second and third dorsal are opposite to the outer 
costal streaks, but are also indistinct ; a round black spot lies at 
the extreme apex, a slender smoky line running through the cilia 
in a half circle beyond it, to which is attached a slender smoky 
line running straight outward to the end of the cilia, which are 
slightly marked with white above and below it ; dorsal cilia 
greyish. Exp. al. 5 mm. Hind ivinc/s and cilia greyish. Abdomen 
grey. Legs whitish, with faint tarsal spots. 
Type, 6 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies^-ST. Ckoix, 1 Y. {Hedemann). Unique. 
90. Oenix, Tr. 
227. Ornix ebrantella, sp. n. 
Antenna' slightly longer than the fore Avings ; yellowish grey. 
Palpi drooping, slender ; whitish cinereous. Head with projecting 
scales above ; pale cinereous. Thorax pale stone-grey. Fore wings 
pale stone-grey, with brownish-fuscous longitudinal streaks : the 
first commencing at the base leaA'es the costa at one-fom-th, ex- 
tending to the outer end of the cell where it almost joins a 
sharply-angidated costal streak of the same colour; the second 
commencing at the base of the dorsum extends to two-thirds the 
wing-length, its lower edge obtusely biangulated and more sharply 
defined than its upper edge, which is somewhat diffused ; a slender 
streak from before the tornus points towards the apex, but is 
terminated by a reduplicated oblique transverse bar extending 
outward to the termen, above the tornus, from the commencement 
of the costal cilia ; the central space between the dark margins 
of this band is somewhat silvery, and beyond the band the tri- 
angular apical space left by it contains a dark fuscous spot mar- 
gined before and beneath by silvery scales, with a short streak of 
the same from the apex ; cilia brownish grey, becoming whiter 
towards the apex. Exp. al. 8-5 mm. Hind wings and cilia 
brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs bone-whitish, 
with faintly mottled tarsal joints. 
Type, S Mus. Gudmann. 
Hah. "West Indies — St. Thomas, 18 III. {Oudmann). Unique. 
10* 
148 LOUD WALSIKGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
91. Spanioptila, g. n. 
(<7n-a'»'(os= slender ; tttiXov =i\vmg.) 
Type, Spanioptila spinosum, Wlsm. 
Antenna longer than the fore 
ngs, simple ; basal joint with a 
pecten. 
Labial palpi long, slender, drooping, curved, divergent, naked ; 
terminal joint shorter than second. 
Maxillary palpi moderate, fiUform, drooping. 
Hau^tellum moderate. 
Head and face smooth. 
Tliorax smooth. 
Fore wings narrow, elongate, lanceolate, dorsum ciliate almost 
to base. Neuration : 8 veins ; 11 absent, 10 absent, 7 to apex, 
3 absent. 
Hind ivings linear, acute, cilia 5. Neuration : 6 veins ; cell 
open, 3 and 4 coincident, 5 and 6 coincident. 
Abdomen long and slender. 
Legs : front tibiae slightly thickened with scales at their end ; 
middle and hind tibiae and tarsi clothed with spniy hairs, tending 
to arrange themselves in tufts. 
Allied to Gracilaria, but distinguishable by the narrower wings 
and consequently more degraded neuration, by the pecten on the 
basal joint of the antennae, and by the bristly middle and hind legs. 
228. Spanioptila spinostjm, sp. n. 
Antennce white, the basal joint with a pecten beneath. Palpi 
white. Read snow-white. Thorax white, \\\t\\ a yellowish tinge. 
Fore wings white, with a yellowish tinge and some dark brownish 
transverse speckling which becomes agglomerated in two elongate 
dorsal marks, one before and one beyond the middle, also in a 
faint costal spot above each of them ; a slender ochreous shade 
runs from the end of the cell to the apex where a smoky line 
crosses the cilia, giving a falcate appearance not due to the form 
of the wing which is acute ; the cilia, which extend along the 
dorsum nearly to the base, are tawny greyish. Exp. al. 10 mm. 
Hind ivings pale grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen shining 
whitish. T^egs white ; bristly above on the hind tibiae and tarsi, 
the latter flecked with umber-brown at the feet and spurs. 
T^jpe, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 22 II1.-12 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Five specimens. 
92. Etjcosmophoka, g. n. 
(ev= beautiful; koo-^xos = an ornament ; 0oper»' = to carry.) 
Type, Eucosmophora dives, Wlsm. 
Antennce more than 1|, simple ; basal joint without a pecten. 
Labial palpi strongly recurved laterally, smooth; apical joint 
longer than second. 
1897.] WEST-IKDIAK MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 149 
Mamillary palin well-developed, not folded, slightly recurved, 
dependent or porrect, smooth. 
Hcmstellum moderate. 
Head and face smooth. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore wings narrow, elongate, lanceolate, dorsum ciliate almost 
to base. Neuration : 8 veins ; 7 to costa, 8 absent, 3 and 4 absent, 
6 absent. 
Hind ivhigs narrow, lanceolate, acute, cilia 4. Neuration : 6 veins, 
cell open, 5 and 6 coincident, 3 and 4 coincident. 
Abdomen long, slender. 
Legs: hind tibiae pectinate above with moderately long stiff 
bristles, middle tibise unclothed. 
Allied to Sijanioptila, from which it differs essentially in the 
smooth middle tibiae, and in the hind tibiae being merely pectinate. 
229. EUCOSMOPHOKA DIVES, sp. n. 
Ayitenyice pale greyish, with an aeneous sheen at the base. Palpi 
strongly recurved laterally, of even width throughout ; whitish. 
Head and thorax smooth, shining metallic seneous. Fore wings 
bright metallic aeneous, merging into cupreous before the apex ; 
nearly at the base of the costa is an elongate subovate black spot 
exteuding to about one-fourth ; beyond it an elongate bright 
oi'ange costal patch, before the middle of which is a shining silvery 
white oblong costal spot, slenderly black-margined except at its 
upper edge ; the orange patch is also margined beneath by a 
narrow black shade ; a small blackish spot below the costa at the 
commencement of the costal cUia separates the orange patch from 
the cupreous apical portion of the wing, but the extreme apex 
becomes again shining aeneous ; cilia bronzy grey. Exj-). al. 8 mm. 
Hind luings and cilia grey. Abdomen beneath shining pale aeneous, 
above shaded with grey. Legs : hind tibiae with a comb of short 
bristles above throughout their length : pale straw-colour, tarsi 
unspotted. 
Type, <S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hob. West Indies — Geenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., and Chantilly 
Estate, 350 ft., windward side, 13 IV.-15 Y.—H. H. Smith). Six 
specimens. 
230. EUCOSMOPHOEA ORNATA, sp. n. 
Antennce brownish. Labial and maxillary palpi white. Head 
and thorax white, both laterally tinged with pale olive-brown. 
Fore wings pale olive-brown from the base to nearly two-thirds, 
thence blending to rich reddish orange ; a silver-white dorsal 
streak throughout, interrupted by a small orange spot at two- 
thirds the wing-length ; in the orange portion of the wing is a 
very oblique silvery metallic streak before the costal cilia, followed 
by two minute opposite silvery metallic marginal spots beyond 
which the costa and costal cilia are shining white, a fuscous 
streaklet running through them at the apex (accompanied by some 
loO tORD WALsnsreaAM on [Jan. 19, 
orange) in an Uncate form ; cilia below the apex white, an orange 
line descending through them near their tips, and a dark fuscous 
line marking their base along the termeu ; ciUa behind the tornus 
grey. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind whujs and cilia brownish grey. 
Ahdoimn pale brownish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, tarsal 
joints faintly dark-spotted ; hind tibiae distinctly clothed witli a 
stiif pecten of ochreous hairs above. 
Tjipe, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 300 ft., windward 
side, 8 V. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 
231. EUCOSMOPHORA INSULELLA, Wlsui. 
Zarathrainsulella. Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 538-9 (1892)\ 
Zarathra insulsella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 548 (1892) ^ 
Hab. West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 V. — Gud- 
mann) ; St. Vincent ^ 
232. EuCOSMOPHORA CUPREELLA, Sp. n. 
Antennce fuscous, longer than the fore wings. Palpi somewhat 
slender, slightly recurved, the apical joint as long as the second ; 
whitish. Head ochreous. Thorax cupreous. Fore luings coppery 
brown with a slight gloss ; a slender ochreous line along the dorsum 
from the base ; a narrow outwardly oblique costal streak a little 
beyond the middle, white blending into steel-grey at its lower 
extremity ; a transverse outwardly curved steel-grey band crosses 
the wing before the apex terminating in an ochreous spot on the 
costa, the space before it rich chestnut blending into the ground- 
colour, the space beyond it bright ochreous, separated from the 
whitish ochreous cilia by a steel-grey line with a small chestnut 
spot at the apex. Exj?. al. 9 mm. Hindivings and cilia brownish 
grey. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs brownish grey ; hind tibiae 
with the apex and spurs white, hind tarsi whitish barred with 
greyish. 
Type, cS Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 1100 ft., XI. — Een- 
dall). Unique. 
93. DiALECTICA, g. n. 
(Sta\eKrtKtis= provocative of discussion.) 
Type, Gracilaria scalariella, Z. 
Antennce not exceeding the length of the fore wings, simple. 
Labial palpi smooth, drooping ; the apical joint as long as the 
second, slightly recurved. 
Maxillary p)al pi slender, smooth, acute, porrect. 
Head and thorax smooth. 
Fore wings narrow, elongate, attenuated at the apex, with long 
cilia, ornamented with recurved lines. Neuration : 11 veins, all 
separate, 7 to costa. 
1897.] WEST-lNDiAJir MTCEO-LEPiDOPTEiRA. 151 
Hind wings very narrow, elongate, attenuate ; cilia 5. Neuration : 
7 veins ; 3 and 4 coincident, cell open, 5 and 6 stalked. 
Legs : hind tibi« pectinate above throughout, inner spurs much 
longer than the outer. 
The pectinate hind tibise separate this genus from Oracilaria 
and Ornix, to which it is allied. 
233. DiALECTICA SANCTiE-CRUCIS, Sp. n. 
Anfennce smoky-whitish. PaZpi white, unspotted. Head and 
face white. Thorax white, tegulae and sides pale copper-brown. 
Fore wings pale copper-brown, with two large shining white 
triangular patches on the dorsum, their apices reaching the costa ; 
the first, at the base, covering nearly one-third of the dorsum, the 
second on the middle, both delicately margined with black scales 
externally, the second also internally ; beyond these at the toruus 
is an elongate subovate shining silvery-white dorsal patch, above 
which a short oblique slender white costal streaklet, black-margined 
on either side, crosses to the termen before the apex ; cilia at the 
apex greyish, with two short dividing streaklets, below the apex 
coppery brown, at the toruus shining white and behind it greyish. 
Exp. al. 7 mm. Hind ivings and cilia grey. Abdomen shining 
greyish. Legs : posterior pair white with a black dot between the 
spurs. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St, Croix, 17 V. (Grudmann); St. Thomas, 
2 IV. (Hedemann) ; St. Jan, 4 IV. (Gudmann). Three specimens. 
This species belongs to the group of scalariella, Z., and is most 
nearly allied to nolcJcenii, Z. Bred by Mr. Grudmann, but the 
plant not identified. 
234. DiALECTICA REKDALLI, Sp. U. 
Antennce brownish. Palpi white. Head and thorax white, 
the latter shaded across the front with brown. Fore ivings brown 
with two broad snow-white transverse fascise followed by a slender 
oblique costal streak and a semicircular subapical costal spot, with 
some white scales around the apex and about the tornus ; the 
first fascia is broader on the dorsal than on its costal extremity, 
the second is slightly oblique, tending outwards from the costa, 
and is somewhat widened towards the dorsum ; cilia brownish 
grey. Exp. al. 7 mm. Hind wings and cilia dark brownish grey. 
Abdomen greyish brown. Legs : hind tibiae with a comb of bristly 
scales above ; white, shaded along the tibiae and banded on the 
tarsi with brown. 
Type, d Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Monteague, 1100 ft,, XI. — Een- 
dall). Unique. 
Nearly allied to fasciella, Chamb,, but distinguished by the 
absence of a third fascia. 
1.52 rOED WALSINGHAM OX [Jan. 19, 
235. DiALECTICA PEEMIXTELLA, sp. n. 
AntentKB yellowish. Palpi white, with a grey spot before the 
apex of the terminal joint, which is especially conspicuous on the 
underside. Head stramineous. Thorax dirty whitish. Fore 
tuings dirty whitish on the basal half, straw-ochreous beyond, with 
greyish-fuscous streaks and reticulations, on the basal half these 
are placed transversely ; a reduplicated patch from the base of the 
costa, not quite reaching the dorsum, is more conspicuous than 
some more slender similar markings beyond it ; beyond the middle 
of the wing the markings assume a longitudinal direction, but are 
curved and interlaced so as to form enclosed patches of the ochreous 
ground-colour, of which the most conspicuous is an obliquely 
placed patch at three-fourths the wing-length, its lower extremity 
directed inwards between two greyish fuscous lines, the lower of 
which is reduplicated, the upper one being preceded by similar 
curved lines running between ochreous patches ; near the apex is 
a slightly curved narrow shining whitish fascia, dark-margined on 
each side, and at the extreme apex is a dark spot followed by a 
curved line around the termen at the base of the whitish cilia, 
through which runs a dark uncate streaklet. Ex2). al. 6-9 mm. 
Hind wings and cilia brownish fuscous. Abdomen brownish 
ochreous. Hind legs white, spotted with dark brownish fuscous 
on the posterior eud of the tibise and at the commencement and 
middle of the tarsi, the spurs also are dark brownish fuscous. 
Ti/pe, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — S. Domingo (Sanches, 14 V. — G-udmann) ; 
GrEENADA (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward side, 1 IV.-4 V. — H. H. 
Smith). Three specimens. 
236. DiALECTICA APICEPUNCTELLA, Wlsm. 
Gracilaria apicepunctella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 540, 
548 (1892) \ 
Hab. West Indies— St. Vincent \ 
94. Geacilaeia, Hw. 
237. Geacilaeia .es'eocapitella, Wlsm. 
Gracilaria ceneocapitella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 539-40, 
548 (1892). 
Hab. West Indies — St. Vincent'. 
238. Geacilaeia similatella, Z. 
Gracilana similatella, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 411-2, 
PI. VI. 144 (1877 )\ 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 30 IV. (Gudmann) ; St. Thomas, 
14 IV. (Hedemann). Colombia — Chipo, 8 VI.^ 
Bred by Mr. Gudmaun, but the plant not identified. 
1897.] WEST-IlfDIAK MICBO-LEPIDOPTERA. 153 
239. Gbacilaria pultebella, sp. n. 
Antennce cinereous, faintly annulated. Palpi cinereous. Head 
pale cinereous. Thorax dull pale greyish fuscous. Fore luings 
dull pale greyish fuscous, somewhat mottled on their outer half 
with shining steel-grey (visible only in a strong light) ; a pale line 
along the base of the costal cilia continuing round the apex is 
dilated to the tornus, covering one half the cilia on the terminal 
margin, thus leaving a small dark hook beyond it at the apex, two 
slender dark fuscous lines run along the base and along the middle 
of the cilia respectively. Exp. al. 6-5 mm. llind ivlags and 
cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen with a slight reddish tinge. 
Legs cinereous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Hedemann. 
liab. West Indies — San Domingo (Puerto Plata, 16 Y. — Gml- 
mann) ; St. Thomas, 2 TV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 
240. Geacilaeia ihs'dosa, sp. n. 
Antenna very pale fawn, faintly annulated. Palpi white. 
Head very pale fawn. Thorax white. Fore wings very pale fawn, 
with a slender sinuate white line from the base of the dorsum to 
the termen below the apex, touching the dorsum at its two down- 
ward bends ; three oblique white costal streaks, the first scarcely 
before the middle, the third coalescing with an inverted white 
spot before the apex, a few dark brown scales around the margins 
of the streaks ; cilia pale fawn with a white streak through them 
below the apex. Exp. al. 5-5 mm. Hind luings very pale greyish ; 
cilia pale fawn. Abdomen pale fawn-ochreous. Legs white, spotted 
with pale fawn. 
Ti/2w, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Ha yti (Port-au-Prince, 23 Y.—Gudmann) ; 
St. Thomas, 20 III. (Hedemann). Two speciDaens. 
The smooth crown separates this species from Lithocolletis, to 
which genus it might be referred at first sight. 
241. Gkacilaeia nesitis, sp. n. 
Antennce as long as the fore wings ; yellowish white, faintly 
barred above with brown. Pal^n slightly recurved ; white, the 
end of the second joint and a band above the middle of the third 
joint brown. Head yellowish white. Thorax white, mixed with 
brown. Foi-e luings umber-brown, with a nearly straight yellowish- 
white central fascia, before which are two slightly oblique ill- 
defined transverse streaks, and beyond it a well-defined costal 
spot and a few scales of the same colour along the dorsum ; cilia 
pale brownish, at the apex .white. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings 
brownish grey, with tawny-grey cilia. Abdomen pale cinereous. 
Legs white, with brown tarsal annulations. 
Type, ? Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 18-21 III. (Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Two specimens. 
154 LORD WALSiNGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 
95. CORISCIUM, Z. 
242. CofilSCIUM ALBOMAEGINATUM, Sp. D. 
Antenncp. mouse-grey. Pal2n white, with a smokj-white brush 
beneath the second joint and two minute black annulations on 
the apical joint. Head and thorax smoky-white, the latter 
margined with mouse-grey. Fore whic/s dark mouse-grey, with a 
series of oblique white costal streaklets beginning at one-third 
from the base, the fifth continued across the wing and meeting a 
white inverted tornal streaklet, beyond it a sixth costal is inverted 
before the apex ; the dorsum is white throughout ; mth two dark 
spots connected with the dark ground-colour in the fold, one 
before the other behind the middle ; a short elongate very oblique 
white dorsal streaklet ascends before the tornus pointing in the 
direction of the apex ; cilia white, tipped with mouse-grey, with a 
line of blackish scales along their base sending a short black 
point through them at the apex ; tornal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 
6 mm. Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen gre3dsh. Legs 
white, speckled with mouse-grey on the hind tibiae and tarsi. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hub. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12 III.-14 V. {Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Five specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann and Baron von Hedemann, but the 
plant not identified. 
243. CoRISCIUM ATTENUATUM, sp, n. 
Antemw yellowish white, delicately annulated. Palpi recurved, 
the second joint slightly tufted beneath ; white, tinged externally 
with pale fawn. Head white. Thorax whitish. Fore ivings deli- 
cate pale fawn-ochi-eous, with some whitish mottling on the basal 
half; a slender whitish line along the dorsal margin bending 
upwards and meeting at a right angle the second of three white 
costal streaks (which is somewhat more oblique than the other 
two), the margins of these streaks are peppered with minute black 
scales ; a white dorsal spot lies before the apex of the outer costal 
streak, and a white apical spot contains a rounded black dot ; a 
slender fawn line runniug around the apex at the base of the paler 
cilia, which are also tipped with fauTi at the extreme apex. Exp. 
al. 7 mm. Hind wings pale greyish, with pale fawn-grey cilia. 
Abdomen fawn-grey. Legs whitish. 
Type, (S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thosias, 7-28 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann). Three specimens. 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann from larvae feeding on Croton flavens. 
VI. ARGYRESTHIANM 
96. Leucophasma, g. n. 
(\ewKds = bright ; 0a(r/ia = phantom.) 
Type, (S Leucophasma phantasmella, Wlsm. 
Antenna> nearly as long as the fore wings, somewhat flattened 
towards the base, simple. 
1897.] WBST-IIfDIAIT MlCRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 155 
Labial palpi slender, short, projecting ; second joint sparsely 
hairy beneath, apical joint as long as the second. 
Maxillary palpi and haustellum obsolete. 
Read rough above, face smooth. 
Thorax smooth. 
Fore ivings lanceolate, somewhat widened in the middle, apex 
depressed, slightly uncate, subacute. Neuration : 9 veins ; 7 and 
8 stalked, enclosing the apex, 3, 5, and 10 absent. 
Hind tuings (under 1) lanceolate, acute, costal margin suddenly 
depressed from the middle, cilia 1|. Neuration : 7 veins ; 4 absent 
(coincident with 5) ; 6 and 7 parallel. 
Legs : posterior tibiae clothed \^'ith long fine hairs. 
Allied to Cedestis, Z., but differing in the absence of the 
haustellum. 
244. Lbucophasma phaijtasmella, sp. n, 
Antennce shining white. Palpi, head, and face white. Thorax 
white with a golden-yellow tinge. Fore luings white with a golden- 
yellow suffusion, more apparent on the middle and towards the 
apical portion of the wing ; a small fuscous dot lies at the extreme 
apex surrounded by golden yellow ; ciha white with a golden- 
yellow sheen. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind luings greyish white, cilia 
with a yellowish tinge. Abdomen shining wliitish ochreous. Leys 
white ; hind tibiae clothed with long white hairs above. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— GREJf.vDA (Chantilly Estate, 350 ft., wind- 
ward side, 13 IV. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 
97. Akgteesthia, Hb. 
245. Abgyeesthia percussella, Z. ('?). 
Arqyresthia percvissella, Z. Hor. See. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 246-7 
(1877)^ 
Hah. Colombia— Bogota, Ml. III.' [? West Indies— St. Thomas, 
6-10 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann).~] 
Two specimens from St. Thomas are probably small varieties of 
this species, but they are not in sufficiently good condition to 
determine with certainty. 
VII. EEECHTHLINM. 
98. EBEUifETis, Meyr. 
246. Eeeuitetis minusctjla, sp. n. 
{=NolcJcenia minuscula, Z. MS.) 
Antennce rather stout, enlarged at the base, simple in the S ; 
creamy-white. Palpi projecting more than the length of the head 
beyond it, brush-Uke beneath ; creamy-white. Head rough ; cream- 
coloured. Thorax cream-coloured. Fore luings cream-coloured, 
more or less shaded aud speckled with uraber-brown, this shading 
being concentrated (and therefore more conspicuous) from the 
156 LOED WALSINGHAM OK [Jan. 19, 
base along the first half of the fold, from beyond the middle of the 
costa to the lower angle of the cell, and in a subapical oblique 
costal streak; a dark fuscous streaklet immediately before the 
extreme apex is preceded by a narrow whitish costal patch ; the 
termen deeply incised below and opposite to it, causing the apex 
of the wing to turn up sometimes almost at right angles to its 
surface ; cilia creamy whitish, with a slender reduplicated umber- 
brown line close to their tips. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings, J 
with a hyaline patch at the base ; pale golden yellowish, some- 
times with a cupreous tinge ; cilia whitish with a slight golden or 
cupi'eous tinge, a slender reduplicated curved hue of umber-brown 
running through them around the extreme apex. Abdomen whitish 
ochreous. Legs creamy-white. 
%:>e, S 2 Mus. "\
sm. 
Hub. West Indies — Jamaica (Kingston, 26 VII. — Cockerell) ; 
St. CEori, 22-28 IV. (Gtidmann, Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 7 III. 
-22 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann); Geekada (Balthazar, 250 ft., 
windward side, 30 IV. — H. H. Smith). Nine specimens. 
[Colombia? {Nolcken). Twelve specimens.] 
" In repose the moth holds the end of the fore wings curved 
upwards " {Hedemann). 
This species varies in the intensity of its colouring, the post- 
mediau oblique streak or shade being sometimes continued back- 
ward at a right angle to the dorsum, while in other specimens the 
markings are almost obliterated. I have a series in the Zeller 
Collection named " Nolchenia minuscida, Mus. Z.," received from 
Baron von Nolcken, but unfortunately they are only labelled "iV." 
It is possible they may have been taken in St. Thomas or Jamaica, 
as the Baron visited these islands in December 1870 ; but he 
appears to ha^e found Micros scarce in the West Indies, and the 
specimens were more probably captured in Colombia. 
Very closely allied to Ereunetis iuloptera, Meyr., an Australian 
species which also possesses the hyaline patch in the hind wings — 
it appears to be distinct, but my specimens of iuloptera are in poor 
condition. 
247. Eeeunetis maculicoenis. sp. n. 
Aiiteunce: basal joint with a brush of hair- like scales above and 
beneath, somewhat serrate on the outer half in the S ; white with 
three brownish spots, the first at one-third, the second at two- 
thirds, the third at the apex. Paljn slender, second joint scarcely 
clothed beneath ; white. Head and thorax white. Fore wings 
shining white, with a pale fawn-ochreous shade from the base 
along the fold, some similar shading on the outer half of the wing 
tending to fawn, and two slightly oblique fascise ; ciha pale fawn- 
ochreous. Exp. al. 6 mm. Hind wings shining yellowish grey ; 
ciha pale grey. Abdomen and legs very pale ochreous. 
Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hob. West Indies— St. Thomas, 7 III.-12 IV. {Hedemann). 
Three specimens. 
1897.] WBST-INDIAK MICHO-LBPIDOPTBIIA. 157 
" In repose the moth holds the end of the fore wings curved 
upwards " (Hedemann). 
This obscure species, which is allied to minuscula, can be at 
ouce separated by the brownish blotches on the antennse. 
248. Eretxnbtis aeolblla, sp. n, 
Antennce longer than the fore wings, slender ; pale cinereous. 
Falpi slender, somewhat dependent ; second joint longer than the 
apical, slightly clothed beneath; dirty whitish. Head rough-haired; 
whitish cinereous. Thorax whitish cinereous. Fore luings with 
the costa slightly arched, apex moderately acute ; pale brownish 
fawn-colour, longitudinally streaked throughout with whitish- 
cinereous lines running from the base to the termen — one above 
the cell, two along it, and one along the fold ; the costa also whitish 
cinereous ; a few black scale-points around the termen at the 
base of the cilia and one a little beyond the middle of the fold ; 
cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind ivings and cilia 
dull greyish. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish cinereous ; 
hind tibiae with slender greyish hairs above. 
Type, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. " 
Hah. West Indies— St, Thomas, 7 111.-12 IV. (Hedemann). 
Three specimens. 
249. Ereunetis trontella, sp. n. 
Antennce white, faintly annulated with fawn-brown. Head with 
a long pointed frontal tuft reaching more than the length of the 
head beyond it ; white. Labial pialpi slender, the second joint 
sparsely clothed at its apex ; white. Thorax whitish, shaded with 
fawn-brown. Fore ivings whitish, with a broad longitudinal streak 
of fawn-brown, spi'inkled with black scales, esfending from the 
base to the apex, its width encroaching on the dorsal, but not on 
the costal, half of the wing ; a narrower and slightly paler line 
follows the dorsum throughout ; a slender black streak or spot on 
the pale interspace at one-third from the base ; the costal half of 
the wing is very obliquely striated with pale fawn-brown — the first 
streak arising at the base, the second before the middle, a third 
somewhat darker beyond the middle, and a fourth following the 
margin to the apex, where there is an elongate black spot ; cilia 
whitish, with a slender fawn-brown line running through their 
base, defining very clearly the acuminate apex, a rather broader 
shade of the same colour around their outer extremities (the longer 
cilia on the dorsal margin are not thus marked). Exp. al. 9- 
10 mm. Hind wings very pale greyish, with pale brownish- 
ochreous ciha. Abdomen shining brownish ochreous. Legs with 
long slender hairs above and beneath the tibiae ; yellowish white, 
the tarsi faintly annulated. 
Type, 6 ? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 13 III.-7 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Eight specimens. 
158 LORD WALSINGHA.M ON [.Tail. 19, 
" In repose the moth holds the end of the wings curved up- 
wards " (Hedemann). 
This species, which belongs to the group of symmaclia, Meyr., 
most resembles Comodica acoiitistes, Meyr., but is not so strongly 
marked, and does not possess the notch in the antennae. 
250. Erettnetis lanceolata, sp. n. 
Antenna' cinereous. Pcd^n moderately long, drooping ; greyish 
fuscous. Head above whitish cinereous, face greyish fuscous. 
Thorax pale cinereous. Fore ivinr/s dirty whitish, with a slight 
yellowish tinge, strongly marked with brownish cupreous in three 
costal blotches — the first at the base extending to about one-fourth, 
the second about the middle diffused obliquely outwards to the 
end of the cell, the third beyond the middle, containing an oblique 
line and an anteapical triangle of the pale ground-colour, extends 
very obliquely to a cupreous spot in the apical cilia ; the acuminate 
apex of the wing is defined by a cupreous line along the base of 
the costal and dorsal cilia, which are of the pale ground-colour. 
Rrp. al. 8-10 mm. Hind wings as broad as the fore wings, 
lanceolate acuminate ; shining pale grey ; cilia the same. Abdomen 
greyish. Legs : hind tibiae hairy ; yellowish white, tibiae banded 
with fuscous. 
TgjJe, cJ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— Jamaica (Mandeville, 1950 ft., X.— 
Cockerell); 8t. Thomas, 7-30 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann): four 
specimens. Brazil — Para (Amazons), IV., 20 VII., 1 IX.-15 XII. 
(Schulz) : several specimens. 
This species belongs to the group of symmacha, Meyr. 
251. Ereunetis ^neoalbida, sp. n. 
Antennce pale yellowish. Palpi dependent ; white. Head and 
face rough ; Avhite, the crest brassy-yellow. Thorax shining white, 
touched with brassy-yellow behind. Fore tuings shining, snow- 
white, with two transverse fasciae, three costal streaks, and one 
dorsal streak, all brassy-yellow— the first fascia close to the base, 
the second at |, the three costal streaks all very oblique from the 
middle to the apex, divided from au oblique medio-dorsal streak 
by a slender black longitudinal line ; the second costal streak, 
which is more slender than the other two, has a fine black line 
along its inner edge ; the dorsal streak is also dark-margined 
internally ; cilia snow-\^liite, with a cuneiform brassy dash along 
their base from the anal angle, the outer costal streak also running 
through them at the apex. Ex2y. al. 7-9 mm. Hind luings pale 
greyish, with a slight brassy sheen ; cilia very pale grey. Abdomen 
shining pale brownish ochreous. Legs : hind tibiae hairy above ; 
whitish. 
Ttjpe, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— St. Thomas, 6 UI.-12 IV. {Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Four specimens. 
1897.] WEST-IIfDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOFTERA.. 159 
VIII. TINEINM. 
99. TllTEA, L, 
252. TlIfEA BKEVISTKIGATA. 
Antennue 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 tvings hoary whitish, the eosta faintly mottled with greyish 
ochreous, tlie 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 con- 
spicuous, 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 mm. Hind ivings 
shining pale greyish ; cilia the same. Abdomen cinereous. Legs 
hoary whitish. 
Type, <5 Mus, Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 5-6 V. ( Gudmnnn, Hedemann) ; 
St. Thomas, 2 III.-15 TV. {Gudmann, Hedemann). Six specimens. 
253. Tinea reduplicata, sp. n. 
Antenna; bone- white. Paljn 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 the bone-white cilia. Exp. al. 12-14 mm. 
Hind ivings shining greyish, with a slight aeneous tinge ; cilia corre- 
sponding to this colour along their base, but shining whitish on 
their outer half. Abdomen pale brassy-brown, with silvery trans- 
verse lines. Legs bone-white, shaded with brownish grey. 
Txjpe, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 17-31 III. {Gudmann). Two 
specimens. 
254. Tinea diltjticoenis, 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 
160 LORD WAisiNGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
brownish grey. Fore ivings hoary whitish, suffused and speckled 
with brownish grey, some dots of the same around the base of the 
long whitish cilia. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind wings pale brassy- 
yellow ; cilia whitish, with an aeneous tinge along their base. 
Abdomen yellowish grey. Legs whitish. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Bab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 16 IV. (Redemann). Unique. 
255. Tinea sctthropiella, sp. n. 
Antennce bone-white. Palpi, second joint recurved, somewhat 
roughened beneath, apical joint short, projected ; white. Head and 
ihora.v white. Fore ivings rather shining, white, sparsely sprinkled 
with greyish brown ; a slender curved greyish-brown line, leaving 
the costa near the base, reaches obliquely outwards to the fold ; 
a second, from before the middle of the costa, angulated outwards 
on the cell, descends obliquely to the middle of the dorsum ; a 
small ill-defined blotch of the same colour rests at the end of the 
cell, with a spot below it about the tornus, followed by others less 
conspicuous towards the apex ; cilia whitish. E.^p, al. 14 mm. 
Hind ivings yellowish grey ; cilia becoming whitish on their outer 
half. Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish. 
Type, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 8-11 III. (Gudmnnn). Two 
specimens. 
256. Tinea ceetella, sp. n. 
Antenna' slender, simple (|) ; greyish ochreous. Paljn small, 
slender, drooping, slightly recurved, obtuse, naked : dark fuscous. 
Head rough ; white, face fuscous. Thorax smooth, white ; tegulae 
white. Fore wings chalky white, with a series of chestnut-brown 
costal spots and streaks; the first commencing at the base and 
extending to one-third the length of the wing; after this two 
smaller length-spots lie on each side of the middle and are followed 
by a larger, rather triangular, spot of the same colour at the com- 
mencement of the costal cilia, beneath this is a minute black dot 
at the end of the cell ; cilia white, with a series of black specks 
near the base following the termen ; torual cilia greyish. Exp. al. 
11 mm. //mcZ wmr/s grey, with a lustrous bi'assy tinge ; cilia grey, 
with a slight rosy tinge. Abdomen greyish. Legs pale cinereous ; 
hind tibiae loosely clotlied above. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hob. West Indies — Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 24 V. — Gudmann). 
Two specimens. 
257. Tinea umbraticostella, sp. n. 
Antenna smoky brownish, the basal joint fringed with white 
beneath. Palpi short, drooping ; white. Head very rough ; white. 
Thorax white, with a median brown streak. Fore wings lanceolate ; 
white, the costa smoky-brown throughout, broader beyond than 
before the middle ; a pale chestnut-brown shade along the fold and 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEEA. 161 
at the end o£ the cell, with three or four minute black dots along 
the outer half of the dorsum, and one near the upper angle of the 
cell ; cilia pale brownish grey, with a smoky-brown hne running 
through them and continued around the apex. Exp. al. 8-10 mm. 
Hind vjimjs pale grey ; cilia with a slight brownish tinge. Abdomen 
pale yellowish brown. Legs hairy ; yellowish white, the tarsi 
faintly annulated. 
Type, 6 2 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Ceoix, .5 V. (Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 
8 111,-13 IV. {Gudmann, Hedemann) ; St. Vikcent (windward 
side, H. H. Smith). Nine specimens. 
258. Tijstea tischbeiella, sp. n. 
Antennce yellowish, annidated with olive-brown. Paljii drooping; 
yellowish. Head and thorax pale yellow. Fore luings 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. 
al. 6 mm. Hind wings very pale grey ; cilia with a faint jeneous 
gloss. Abdomen pale shining ochreous. Legs hairy above ; whitish. 
Exp. al. 6 mm. 
Type, (S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Prince, 22 V. — Gudmann); 
St. Thomas, 11 IV. {Hedemann). Two specimens. 
259. TlKEA 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 brownie^h tinge. Fore wings whitish, sparsely 
suffused with pale greyish bro\^n, 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 tibiae with long slender 
hairs above. 
Type, $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Ceoix, 21 IV. {Gudmann); St. Thomas, 
7-17 III. {Gudmann). Pour specimens. 
A very inconspicuous and faintly-marked species of the group 
allied to cloacella, Hw. 
260, Tinea feagilella, sp. n. 
Antenna' yellowish white. Palp>i very slender, drooping, naked ; 
white. Head and thorax white. Fore ivings white, neatly speckled 
throughout with fuscous, tending to black around the extreme 
Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. XI. 11 
162 LORD WALSixGHAM OX [ Jan. 19, 
apex, where it forms a semicircular shade, and on a spot before the 
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, c? Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies— Hatti (Port-au-Prince, 24 V. — Qudmann). 
Three specimens. 
261. Tinea minutella, P. 
Alucita minutella, P. Ent. Svst. III. (2) 344, No. 51 (1794) \ 
Tinea minutelh, P. Sppl. Ent. Syst. 500. No. 110 (1798) '. Phalmia 
{Alucita) minuteUa, l\irton, Syst. Nat. III. 383 (1806) ^ 
^^ miniitella, 51. ^. alis albidis : fasciis tribus fuscis. Statura 
parva prsecedentium. Alie albidje, fasciis tribuy fuscis, prima 
baseos, tertia apicis. 
''Habitat in Americse Insulis, Dom. v. Eohr.'". =West Indies '■\ 
262. Tinea plumella, Wlsm. 
Tinea plumella, Wlsm, Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 508-9, 544 
(1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies— St. Croix, 21 IV. -7 V. (Hedemann); 
St. Thomas, 10-26 IV. (Gndmann) ; St. Vincent', 
Bred by Mr. Gudmann, who found the larvae very common on 
walls and stone fences. 
263. Tinea tbtraonblla, sp. n. 
Anteiince minutely annulated with brownish fuscous and whitish 
ochreous ; basal joint whitish ochreous. Palpi very short, drooping ; 
whitish, a minute fuscous riug round the apical joint. Head 
brownish fuscous, mixed with M'hitish ochreous ; face whitish 
ochreous. Thorax brownish fuscous, sprinkled and slightly mottled 
with whitish ochreous. Fore luings brownish fuscous, sprinkled 
and slightly mottled with \\'hitish 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 ochi'eous with a dark parting line running 
through them, Exj). al. 6 mm. Hind luings blue-grey; cilia tawny 
fuscous. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs brownish fuscous, hind 
tarsal joints banded with white. 
TyjM, cS Mus, Hedemann, 
Hab. West Indies^ST. Croix, 28 IV. (Hedemann); St. Thomas, 
12-28 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann). Pour specimens. 
" Larvae on walls and stone fences, not so common as plumella, 
Wlsm., and very difficult to breed" (Gudmann). 
1897.] WEST-IIiTDIATf MICRO-LiiiPIDOPTERA. 163 
. In paler specimens the whitish-ochreous mottling is increased, 
forming a series of spots along the costa and dorsum. Very near 
Tinea plumella, Wlsm., but apparently distinct ; the colour of the 
fore wings is more suffused. 
264. Tinea pumiltella, sp. n. 
Antenncn cinereous. PffZ^n very small, drooping, cylindrical ; 
dirty whitish. Head and face rough ; whitish cinereous above, face 
inclining to ochreous. Thorax whitish cinei'eous. Fore wings 
whitish cinereous, blotched with ferruginous, especially on the 
outer portion and on the inner margin of a slender, almost straight, 
transverse black fascia slightly before the middle ; a blackish streak 
along the base of the costa and a blackish costal spot at two-thirds 
from the base ; on the outer edge of the central fascia is a pale 
band, almost white, but Ul-defined externally ; the pale cilia are 
minutely speckled with black scales. Exp. al, 6 mm. Hind luings 
yellowish grey ; cilia pale grey. Abdomen bronzy grey. Legs 
whitish. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 8 V. (Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 
12-30 III. {Gudmann, Hedemann). Three specimens, 
265. Tinea cumulatella, Z. 
Tinea ciimiaatella, Z.Hor. Soc. Bnt. Ross. XIII. 211-2 (1877) ^ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 11 III.-14 IV. (Gudmann, 
Hedemann). Colombia, Fusagasuga, 16 IV.' 
There is one male and three females in the collection, which can 
be distinguished from cumidaiella, Z., only by their paler hind 
wings. The type is unique, and I should not venture to separate 
them specifically on this ground alone, as I find in the present 
series some variation in this respect. 
266. Tinea nigeovitta, sp. n. 
Antennce pale brownish. Palpi drooping, slender, second joint 
sparsely clothed ; whitish cinereous. Head pale brownish. Thorax 
greyish brown. Fore wings greyish brown, indistinctly speclded 
and smudged with a darker shade of the same colour ; cilia slightly 
paler, with a dark shade running through them near the base. 
ExiJ. al. 10 mm. Hind ivings brownish grey, with a conspicuous 
patch of deep black scales below the costa near the base on the 
upper side ; some short erect bristling hairs on the costal margin ; 
cilia slightly paler than the wings. Abdomen pale brownish. Legs 
pale cinereous. 
Type, d Mus. Gudmann. 
Hob. West Indies — St. Thomas, 8 IV. (Gudmann). Unique. 
This species is separable from Tinea cumulatella, Z., only by the 
distinct black patch on the upper surface near the base of the 
hind wings in the male and in its yellower and paler hind wings ; 
in all other respects it almost absolutely resembles it. 
11* 
164 T,OUT) WALSINGHAM OV [.Tail. 10, 
2(57. Tint;a familiaris, Z. 
Tinea famiUarls, Z. Hor. Soc. Eiit. Ross. XIII. 214-6 (1877)'. 
//a6. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Pniice, 23 V., Gudmann); 
St. Thomas, V.i HI. ("in the house" — Gudmann). Colombia— 
Fusagiisuga'. 
Mr. Gudmann bred this species at St. Thomas. 
268. Tinea pallidoesella, Z. 
Tinea jyallidorsclla, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XIII. 212-4 (1877)'. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Thomas, 15 III. (G^iitZmfoin). Colombia 
— Ubaque, 23 III.' 
269. Tinea teontesteigata, sp. u. 
Antenna (|) ; pale ochreous, distinctly annulate with dark fuscous. 
Palpi short, drooping, second joint with a rough brush beneath, 
apical joint as long as the second ; pale ochreous, externally blotched 
with fuscous on each joint. Head whitish ochreous at the sides, 
banded and shaded above with fuscous ; face ochreous. Thorax 
dark fuscous, obscurely speckled with ochreous. Fore wings bright 
ochreous, thickly sprinkled with dark purplish fuscous, which has 
a tendency to coalesce in a small transverse subcostal patch near 
the base, in a dorsal patch a little beyond the base, in a strong 
shade occupying the outer half of the cell and reaching to the 
costa, and on the apical portion of the wing, where it also sprinkles 
the pale ochreous cilia over two-thirds their length. Exp. al. 7 mm. 
Hind wings narrower than the fore wings ; purplish grey, cilia the 
same. Abdomen purplish grey, anal tuft ochreous. Legs dark 
greyish, with pale ochreous tarsal spots and spurs. 
Type, d Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies —St. Croix, 2 V. (Gvdmann). Unique. 
270. Tinea auromaculata, sp. n. 
Antennce yellow, faintly annulated with tawny brown. Palpi 
slender, drooping ; yellowish, externally tawny. Head and thorax 
golden yellow. Fore ivings tawny brown with a purplish gloss, 
marbled with golden yellow, of which there is a spot at the extreme 
base, a larger spot at the middle of the fold reaching to the 
dorsum, another spot at the outer end of the fold, a fourth on the 
disc above and between the last two, and one at the end of the cell 
reaching to the costa ; apex and apical cilia golden yellow, dorsal 
cilia tawny grey. Exp. al. 6-5 mm. Hind wings and cilia bronzy 
grey. Abdomen bronzy greyish. Legs slightly paler. 
Type, (S Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 20 III. (Hedemann). Unique. 
271. Tinea divisa, sp. n. 
Antennce of the male pubescent ; creamy-white, delicately annu- 
1897.] WEST-IIS-DIAK MICH.O-LEPIDOPTERA. 165 
lated with brownish fuscous. Palpi slender, depressed, whitish ; 
the second joint with some brownish hairs beneath its apex. Head 
rough ; white. Tliorax bronzy fuscous. Fore ivini/s and cilia 
bronz_y 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 ground- 
colour ; 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. G".5 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish. Abdomen 
brownish. Legs whitish ochreous, with some brownish hairs on 
the tibiae. 
Tgj}^, 6 Mus. Hedemauu. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12 IV. (Hedemami). Unique. 
100. Tdteola, HS. 
272. TiNEOlA UTERELLA, sp. U. 
Antenna; smoky fawn-colour. Palpi : maxillaries not folded : 
labials short, porrect ; smoky fawn. Head, smoky fawn-colour, 
face brownish ochreous. Tliorcw 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 ai'e two spots before the midjdle 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 ; 
Cthese markings although shelving a purplish gloss in a strong light 
appear blackish under the lens); cilia fawn-grey, Exp. al. ^ 10- 
2 15 mm. Hind tuings pale grey, with a strong seneous tinge 
below the cell ; cilia yellowish grey. -/16cZoj?ie/* yellowish grey. Legs 
yellowish grey, tarsi \^ith obscure darker blotches. 
Tyjie, 6 $ Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 14-24 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 
mann): three specimens. Brazil — Para (Amazons), 17 IX.- 
14 XII. {ScJiidz) : a long series. 
Bred by Messrs. Schuiz, Gudmann, and Baron von Iledemann. 
Mr. Grudmann notes it as found " on trunks," while Mr. Schuiz 
writes : — " The Amazonian clothes moth, their larva and pupa-cases 
called ' tracas ' in Portuguese. These tracas are very frequent in 
the houses in Para, 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 mavulata, 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 iderella. Baron von Hedemann writes 
of CEcia nmculata, " very common on the inner walls of nearly 
166 LOUD WALSINGHAM oif [Jan. 19, 
every house iu St. Thomas " ; Mr. Schvilz, who apparently did not 
distinguish the two insects, notes utereVa as the domestic species ; 
while Mr. Grudmaun found it on the trunks of ti'ees ; and Baron 
von Hedemann, who found the cases very common on the inner 
walls of houses, only succeeded in breeding one specimen. The 
larva of maculata is unknown. 
101. Myrmecozela, Z. 
273. Mtrmecozela ocheaceeli-a, Tgstr. 
Tinea ochraceella, Tgstr. Not. Siillsk. Faun, et Tlor. Feun. Tor. 
II. Ill (1847)'. Myrmecozela ochraceella, Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 176-7 
(1852)- ; Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 271, 425. No. 1435 (1871) =* ; 
Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 339, 354 (1890) ^ Wlsm. Pr. 
Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 517, 545 (1892) \ 
Hal. Europe (Finland, Switzerland, Scotland, England) '"^ 
Larva in Ants' nests, \^III.-X. West Indies — Poetorico ■•' ^. 
If this species is correctly determined by Mtischler its occurrence 
in the West Indies is a remarkable contribution to the study of 
Geographical Distribution. It has not yet been detected in the 
United States, and a myrmecophilous species could hardly be 
imported from Europe to Portorico. Moreover, the localities in 
which it is found in Europe are not such as could warrant 
the suggestion of its having bfeen introduced from the West 
Indies. 
102. Xylesthia, Clem. 
[Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XI. 259, 262 (1859) ; Stn. 
Tin. N. Am. 53-4, 59, 60, fig. 5 (1872).] 
274. Xylesthia australis, sp. n. 
Antenna' simple ; dusky cinereous. Palpi with the second 
joint widely and roughly clothed beneath, apical joint almost con- 
cealed ; cinereous speckled with fuscous. Head and tJiorax 
cinereous. Fort wiiujs arched at the base, apex depressed, roiuided, 
termen oblique ; cinereous dusted with fuscous, an indication of 
an obscure cloud-like fuscous spot at the end of the cell is followed 
by four cloud-like spots above at the base of the costal cilia ; 
cilia cinereous, with a fuscous shade-line running through them. 
Exp. al. 16-20 mm. Hind iviwjs broader than the fore wings, 
rounded at the apex ; brownish fuscous, cilia the same. Abdomen 
greyish fuscous. Legs very pale cinereous. 
Type, 2 Mus. Wlsm. ; {Paratype S Mus. Gudmann). 
Hah. West Indies — Hayti (Port-au-Prince, "Z'd-'Ib'Y ., Gudmann) ; 
St. Thomas, 9 III. {Gudmann). Three specimens. 
The male specimen from St. Thomas is more distinctly marked, 
having fuscous spots along the costal margin, a fuscous shade 
along the disc from the base, and the terminal cilia are mottled. It 
seems to be, however, only a well-marked varietj\ 
1897.] WEST-INDIAN MICRO-LEPII»OPTEE,A. 167 
103. Amtdeia, Clem. 
[Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XI. 260, 262 (1859) ; Stn. 
Tin. N. Am. 55, 59, 60, fig. 2 (1872).] 
275. Amydria anaphoeella, Wlsm. 
Amydna anaphorella, Wlsm. Pr. Z, Soc. Lond. 1891, 517, 545 
(1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — St. Vincent '. 
104. Pexicnbmidia, Msehl. 
[Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 337-8 (1890).] 
276. Pexicnemidia mieella, Mschl. 
Pexicnemidia mirella, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 338, 
354 (1890) ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 518, 545 (1892) \ 
Hah. West Indies — Poetoeico'- -. 
105. Tiquadea, Wkr. 
TiQUADRA, AVkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 519 (1863) 
= Ohcslla, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXIX. 783-4 (1864) 
= Manchana, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXXV. 1818 (1866), 
\i. sjn.= VENTiA, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXXV. 1838-9 
(1866) ; ^AcuREVTA, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XIII. 198-9 (1877). 
277. TlQTJADKA ASPBEA, Z. 
Acureuta aspera, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XIII. 199-201 (1877)'. 
Tiquadm aspera, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 339, 354 
(1890)2; -^jgj^_ p^_ 2. Soc. Lond. 1891, 518, 545 (1892) », 
Sah. West Indies— Poetoeico^' *. Colombia '• \ 
278. Tiquadea lentiginosa, Z. 
Acureuta lentiginosa, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XIII. 201-2 
(1877) \ Tiquadra lentiginosa, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 
518, 545 (1892) =. 
Hah. West Indies— Trinidad (Port-of- Spain) =. Brazil ' (Bio 
Janeiro ', Petropolis) -. Peru (Bopaybamba, 30 XII) '■ ". 
106. MOEOPHAGA, HS. 
279. MOROPHAGA HIESUTETESTITA, Sp. n. 
Antenme S , slightly serrate, ciliate (j) ; umber-brown, finely 
annulate with ochreous, basal joint brownish ochreous. Pcdpi 
(broken, but decidedly rough) ; umber-brown mixed with pale 
ochreous (so far as they are visible). Head rough ; head and 
thorax umber-brown mixed with some ochreous scales. Fore ivings : 
costa somewhat arched, apex depressed, termen obHque, somewhat 
securiform, veins 8 and 9 stalked ; dark umber-brown, with scat- 
tered spots of ochreous scales, especially noticeable along the costa, 
168 LORD •WALSI>'GHA.M 0(f [Jan. 19, 
where they form a somewhat regular series, and at the base of the 
cilia which correspond to the wing-colouring ; the dark colouring 
is concentrated in a patch at the end of the cell, reaching to the 
costa, and is followed by a paler space and preceded by a paler 
spot. Evp. al. 25-27 mm. Hind ivimjs and cilia pale brownish 
cinereous. Abdomen pale bi'ownish cinereous. Legs brownish 
cinereous, tarsal joints shaded with umber-brown. 
Tyjie, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Jamaica (Coll. Bagonot). Two specimens 
received from the late Monsr, Ragonot. 
280. MOEOPHAGA ? AKGULAXELLA, Sp. n. 
Antennce stout, slightly serrate ; shining whitish ochreous, a black 
spot beneath at the outer extremity of the elongate basal joint. 
Paljpi whitish ochreous, the apical joint somewhat stout, as long as 
the second, the second joint with a large triangular tuft beneath 
(as in some species of the genus Ypgoloi^lius, but the tuft is much 
less compact and more hirsute) shaded with brown externally 
almost to the outer edge of the tuft. Head brown. Thorax whitish, 
edged anterior! j^ with brown. Fore wings n&vrow elongate, sub- 
ovate ; creamy whitish, a large brownish-fuscous patch extending 
from the base along the costal half to one-fourth from the apex, 
following the fold, its lower edge is augulated upward in the 
middle, its outer edge passing obliquely to the costa almost parallel 
with the termen, the costal and terminal margins are mottled with 
alternate smoky white and brownish fuscous, the cilia suffused 
with smoky brown. E^'p. al. 16 mm. Hind wings brownish grey, 
a pale line running along the base of the cilia. Abdomen missing. 
Legs bone-whitish. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — Dominica (Point Michell). 
This species differs from Amydria and Xylesthia in having veins 
8 and 9 of the fore wings stalked, and from Moropliaga, with x^'hich 
it agrees in neiu-atiou, in the longer apical joint of the palpi and in 
the second joint being more triangularly clothed. 
IX. SETOMORPHINM 
107. Sbtomorpha, Z. 
281. SeTOMORPHA EtrPICELLA, Z. 
Setomorpha rupicella, Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. 1852, 
95-6 ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Hoc. Lond. 1891, 511, 544 (1892) ^\ 
Hab. West Indies — Cuba (Havannah) '■ = ; Hayti (Port-au- 
Prince, 25 V. — Gudmann). Brazil — Para, X.-XII. (Sclmlz). 
282. Setomorpha grenadella, sp. n. 
Antenna greyish fuscous. Palpi porrect, second joint slightly 
hirsute; pale fawn. iTrac? rough above ; pale fawn, ^r/toj-fl.r pale 
fawn. Fore wings pale fa^n-n, shaded round the margins with 
1897.] WEst-moiAir micro-lepidopteea.. 169 
small broken patches o£ umbreous scales, these are somewhat 
aggregated at the base of the costa, in an elongate patch above 
the middle of the wing, in a second patch extending from the 
outer end of the cell to the termen, and near the base of the 
dorsum ; cilia pale fawn mottled with umbreous along their base. 
Exp. al. 10 mm. Hind luings shining reddish grey ; cilia fawn- 
gre}^ Abdomen fawn-grey shaded with umbreous. Hind tibice 
much tufted above and beneath ; greyish ochreous, the spurs paler ; 
hind tarsi mottled with greyish fuscous. 
Ty2ye, 6 Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. West Indies — GtRenada (Balthazar, 250 ft., windward 
side, 5-10 IV. — H. H. Smith). Two specimens. 
X. ANAPHORINM. 
108. Atopoceea, g. n. 
(aroTTos = strange ; K'€pas=a horn.) 
Type, S Atojjocera occidtum, Wlsm. 
Antennce J , stout, simple, tapering outwards. 
Labial pcdjn 6 , strongly recurved to front of thorax ; second 
joint thickened, somewhat closely clothed, apical joint as long 
as the second, smooth. 
Maxillary palpi small, slender. 
Head smooth. 
Thorax not tufted. 
Fore wings with the costa slightly ai'ched, apex obtuse, termen 
oblique. Newation : 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked enclosing the apex, 
the rest separate. 
Hind wings slightly broader than the fore wings. Neuration : 8 
veins all separate. 
Abdomen somewhat slender. 
Legs, hind tibiae sparsely hairy above. 
This genus constitutes a new section of the Anaphorince charac- 
terized by having in the fore wing veins 7 and 8 stalked instead 
of 8 and 9. 
283. Atopoceea occtjltum, sp. n. 
Anteniuv brownish grey. Palpi brownish grey, the second joint 
somewhat shaded with fuscous externally. Head and thorax 
brownish grey. Fore wings i&wn-hvown, with a few greyish-fuscous 
scales scattered about the outer third and a scarcely noticeable 
group of fuscous scales at the upper angle of the cell ; cilia fawn- 
brown, sparsely speckled with greyish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 mm. 
Hind icings brownish fuscous ; cilia paler, divided by a brownish- 
fuscous shade. Abdomen brownish fuscous ; uncus single, lateral 
claspers scarcely spatulate. Legs cinereous. 
Type, c? Mus. Grudmann. 
Hab. West Indies — Hatti (Cap Haiti, 18 V. — Gudmann). 
Unique. 
170 LORD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
109. CjflfOGEN-£s, WIsra. 
284. CiENOGENBS ? OCHBACEA, Mschl. 
Ccemgenes'l ochracea, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 337, 
354 (1890) ' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515, 544 (1892) ". 
Hab. West Indies — Poktorico '- -. 
110. Hypoclopus, Wlsm. 
285. Htpoclopus parvus, sp. n. 
= Cmnogenes fusilla, Wlsm. (partim) Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
514, 544 (1892) \ 
Antennce greyish ochreous. Paljn, c? recurved to back of 
thorax; greyish touched with fuscous at the sides, apical joint 
tipped with ochreous ; 2 porrect. Head and thorax greyish 
ochreous intermixed \vith fuscous. Fore ivinc/s pale greyish ochre- 
ous, much speckled and blotched with fuscous which is concentrated 
in three connected patches (oue at the end of the cell, one below 
it, and one at the base), leaving the pale ground-colour more con- 
spicuous iu two ovate patches (the first on the middle of the wing, 
the second beyond it) and in a dorsal patch obtusely angulated 
up^vards before the middle and slightly angulated beyond the 
middle, a few fuscous specklings along its lower edge ; cilia 
agreeing in colour with the wing. Exp. al. d 15-5-17 mm.; 
2 21 mm. Ilmd luings and cilia dull greyish. Abdomen greyish. 
Lecjs greyish, tarsi with pale subochreous speckling. 
Type, S Mus. Wlsm. ; $ Mus. Gudmann. 
Hab. West Indies— St. ThojSias, 18 III.-8 IV. {Gudmami, 
Hedemann) ; Dominica ^ (Vomt Michell, 29 V.). Eleven specimens. 
Tliis species varies consideraljly : in the intermediate form which 
I have described as the type the dark and pale markings are sharplv 
defined ; in the extreme forms either the dark or the paler colour 
predominates and tends to efface the pattern. 
The specimen which I recorded (Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 514) 
from Dominica as Ccfnor/enes pusilla, Z.^ was not in good condition, 
and the reception of better specimens from the same island proves 
it to be Bypodopus jyarvus. My notes on the structure of " Ana- 
phora pusilla, Z." refer truly to that species, but the additional 
locality is erroneous, and Camogenes pmilla, Z., must be removed 
from the West Indian list. 
111. EULEPISTE, Wlsm. 
286. Etilepiste umbratipalpis, Wlsm. 
Eulepiste umbratipalpis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 511, 
544, P1.XLL 10 (1892)1. 
Hah. West Indies — Sa^ Domingo '. 
1897.] WESX-INDIA-W MICEO-LEPIDOPTBRi. 171 
112. Eeldeeia, Wlsm. 
287. Felderia dimidiella, Wlsm. 
Felderia dimidiella, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1891, 516, 545, 
PI. XLI. 15 (1892)'. 
Eab. West Indies — Cuba'. 
113. PlLAIfAPHOEA, g. n. 
(ttiXos = felt ; Anaphora, nom. gen.) 
Type, S $ Pilaaaphora hedemannl, Wlsm. 
Aniennce : S somewhat flattened, serrate towards the apex. 
Labial ixilpi : S very sti'ongly recurved, reaching to the back of 
the thorax, brush-like throughout ; 2 porrect, fully twice the 
length of the head beyond it. 
Fore wings : S scarcely more than twice as long as broad, with 
a long fringe along the basal third of the costa (bent back and 
lying Hat on the wing) ; $ without the costal fringe. Neuration : 
12 veins all separate, 8 to apex. 
Hind nnngs : S with a strong upstanding fringe extending from 
the base along the lower edge of the cell to vein 2, the abdominal 
margin densely hairy : 5 without the upstanding fringe. Neuration : 
b veins all separate. , 
Abdomen densely hairy. 
Legs : all the tibise densely clothed in the male, less strongly in 
the female. 
Allied to Acroloplius, Poey, and Awipliora,C\evLi. ; but readily 
separated by the erect fringe on the hind wings. 
288. PiLAKAPHOEA HEDEMAXNI, sp. D. 
Antennck brownish ochreous. Palpi, head., and thorax : c? reddish 
fawn-grey ; $ mouse-colour. Fore ivings : c? tawny reddish, 
speckled along the costa with purplish fuscous, the mai'gins of the 
cell also marked out with purplish fuscous, which is intensified at 
the end of the cell and in a triangular blotch on its lower edge 
before the angle ; a whitish-ochreous streak follows the line of the 
fold, scarcely interrupted by a dark spot near its base, but incised 
at its upper edge by the triangular spot before meiitioned; at 
the end of the cell a small reduplicated dot of white raised scales 
(probably very fugitive), which is connected by a pale whitish 
streak with a pair of purplish -fuscous spots nearer to the termen ; 
cilia conforming to the wing-colour, somewhat speckled : 2 
mouse-colour, with the markings less distinct, and the whole 
wing-surface more evenly and distinctly speckled with darker 
spots ; cilia slightly darker than the wings. Krp. al. c? 20- 
22 mm. ; 2 24-26 mm. Bind wings, d greyish fuscous, the 
raised tuft fawn-ochreous, and the hairs along the abdominal 
margin also inclining to ochreous ; cilia shining, paler than the 
■wings ; 2 shining, fuscous with a purplish gloss ; cilia shghtly 
paler than the wings. Abdomen : J thickly clothed with hoary 
172 LOED WAtSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 
grey, aual tuft inclining to ochreous ; 5 cinereous, with paler hairs 
towards the base. Legs subochreous, dusted with greyish fuscous. 
Type, S Mus. AVlsm. ; $ Mus. Hedemann. 
Hah. West Indies — St. Croix, 21 IV.-13 VI. {Grodmann, 
Hedemann, Pontopjiidan). Ten specimens. 
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I must regard the 
ten speciuiens before me as belongiug to one variable species ; the 
general pattern of the markings is retained wherever these are 
traceable, but in some they are entirely obliterated ; the ground- 
colour varies from tawny reddish to pale cinereous, with more or 
less sufEusion. The females also exhibit pale and dark varieties. 
114. Anaphoka, Clem. 
289. Anaphoea POPE.iNBLLA, Clem. 
= AGROTIPENNELLA, Grt.^* ; = SCASDIKA, Z}* 
Anaphora popeanella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XI. 261 
(1859)' ; Stn. Tin. X. Am. pp. vi, 57-8, 60. fig. 4 (1872)% Anaphora 
agrotijMnnella, Grt. Can. Ent. IV. 137-8 6 , 142-3 $ (1872) ^ 
Anaphora popeaiielJa, Grt. Can, Ent. IV. 137-8, 142-3 (1872) \ 
Anaphora scardina, 7i. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII. 215-6 
(1873)'. Anaphora ar/rotipennella,^LYt. Can. Ent. VIII. 185-6 
(1876) V: Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 110', 129 (1878) \ 
Anaphora popeanella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 129 
(1878)". Anaphora scardina, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 
129 (1878) '". Aiuiphora agrotipennella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 
X. 167-8 (1882) ". Acrolophus aqrotipennella, Grt. Can. Ent. 
XVIII. 199 (1886)''. Anaphora popeanella, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1887, 138'% 161-3, PI. VIII. 11, 11 «-o '^ Mschl. Ah. 
Seuck. Nat. Ges. XV. 337, 354 (1890) '' ; Eiley, Smith's List Lep. 
Bor. Am. 95. No. 5061 (1891) '^ Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
515, 545 (1892) '". 
Hah. United States'"'^ '^*'',VI.-VII. Larva roots of Trifolimn 
pratense, IV.-V."' ^' '% West Indies — Poetoeico ''■ '% 
290. Anaphoea teiatomella, sp. n. 
Antennci' : S serrate towards the apex ; whitish ochreous. 
Falpl : S I'ecurved to beyond the back of the thorax, apical joint 
roughly clothed ; whitish ochreous in front, reddish brown on the 
apical joint ; $ pon-ect, twice the length of the head beyond it ; 
pale cinereous. Head and thorax : <S mouse-grey, mixed with 
reddish brown ; 2 pale cinereous. Fore uintjs : S whitish ochreous 
along the costa and dorsum, transversely streaked and mottled 
with mouse-grey ; suffused with reddish brown along and beyond 
the cell, much shaded and blotched with mouse-grey, which 
reaches the dorsum near the base and sends an angular projection 
downward across the fold opposite to the middle of the dorsum ; 
at the end of the cell are three tooth-like dots of white scales in 
an even parallel transverse series ; cilia mouse-grey, mottled with 
1897.] WKSr-IN"DIAX >fICRO-LKPIDOPTKnA. 173 
reddish-browu : ? pale cinereous throughout, more or less speckled 
with grej^ish 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. ah cj ^'> mm. ; 2 23 mm. Hind wings greyish 
fuscous; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish 
ochreous. 
Type^ S 2 Mus. Hedemann. 
Hab. West Indies— St. Thomas, 20 III.-IO IV. {Oudmann, 
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. 
Pallhis? 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 Domingo '•-. 
292. Anaphora mimasalis, Wkr. 
Palthis-1 mimasalis, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XVI. 154 (1858)'. 
Anaphora mimasalis, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515, 545 
(1892)-. 
Hab. West Indies — San Domingo'". 
293. Anaphora noctuina, Wlsm. 
Anaphora noctuina, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 515-6, 545, 
PL XLI. 14 (1892) '. 
Hab. West Indies — Cuba'. 
115. AcROLOPHUs, Poey. 
294. AcROioPHus TiTELLUs, Poey. 
Acrolophus vitellus, Poey, Cent. Lp. Cuba, PI. (XX.) (1833)' ; 
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887, 148 = : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 
512, 544, PL XLI. 11 (1892)1 
Hab. West Indies — Cuba '*^ ; (? Porxorico ^). 
295, Acrolophus ? reflexus, F. 
Bombyx reflexa,^. Ent. Syst. III. (1) 448. No. 128 (1793)'. 
Phalcena {Bombyx) reflexa, Turton, Syst. Kat. III. 212 (1806) =. 
" reflexa. 128. B. alls deflexis cinereo fuscoque variis, palpis 
reflexis longitudine thoracis. 
" Minuta. Antennae simplices, cinerese. Palpi compressi, hirsuti, 
inter antennas reflexi, ferruginei usque ad alas pertingunt. Alae 
anticae cinerese lunula magna, media liturisque fuscis. Posticse 
cinereae. 
'•'•Habitat in Americse meridionalis, Dr. Pflug,"' 
= West Indies '■"' (probably St. Thouias or St. Croix). 
174 LORD WAIiSlNGHAM OIT [Jan. 19, 
296. AcBOLOPHirs poeti, Wlsin. 
Acrohphus jweyi, Wlsm. Tr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 512-3, 544, 
PI. XLI. 12(1892)'. 
Bah. West Indies — St. Vincent'. 
297. ACROLOPHUS NIVEIPrKCTATUS, Wlsm. 
Acrolophus niveipunctata, Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 513, 
544(1892)'. 
Hah. West Indies — Cuba '. 
298. ACEOLOPHUS PLTTMIFRONTELLUS, Clem. 
= BOIIBTCINA, Z." 
AnapJiom plumifrontena, Clem. Pr. Ac. Neat. Sc. Phil. XI. 261 
(1859)'; Stn. Tin. X. Am. pp. vii, 39, 57, 59, 60 (1872)-. 
Anaphora homhi/cina, Z. Yerh. z.-b. G-es. Wien, XXIU. 216-7 
(1873)=*; Chaiiib. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. lY. 129 (1878)-'. 
Anaphora plumifrontella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. Gr.G-. Surv. IV. 129 
(1878)^. AcrolopJms plumifronteUus, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1887, 149-50, PI. YII. 5 « ; 'Msohl. Ab. Senck. Xat. Ges. XV. 336, 
354 (1890) ' ; Eiley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 94. Xo. 5048 
(1891)": Wl&m. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 513-^, 544 (1892) ^ 
Hah. United States '"\ West Indies — Cuba''; PoRTOEICo'■^ 
299. ACEOLOPHTJS WAISINGHAMI, Mschl. 
Acrolophus loalshighami, Mschl. Ab. Senck. Xat. Ges. XV. 335, 
336, 354 (1890)' ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 514, 5J4, PL XLI. 
13 (1892) -. 
Hah. West Indies — Portorico' -. 
300. Acrolophus leucodocis, Z. 
Anaphora leucodocis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. XIII. 197-8 (1877) ' ; 
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887, 159-60-. Acroloph%is leucodocis, 
. Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 514, 544 (1892)1 
Hah. West Indies -Cuba '-I (? Brazil '-^). 
116. PSETTDANAPHORA, Wlsm. 
301 . PsETJDAlf APHORA KOCTIVAGA, Sp. n. 
Antennce purplish fuscous above, ochreous beneath. Pr/T^jz pale 
ochreous, a dark fuscous patch externally at the base of the first 
joint. Head ochreous, with a purplish shade; face pale ochreous. 
Thorax pur))lish fuscous. Fore wings purplish fuscous, mottled 
with pale ochreous, the costa reticulated with dark tawny fuscous 
throughout ; an oblique small tawny-fuscous patch extending on 
either side of the fold near the base : a larger patch of the same 
colour lying on the outer half of the fold, not reaching the 
dorsum but extending upwards at its inner extremitj- across the 
cell ; this is followed by some pale ochreous mottling-, which also 
1397.] 
WBST-IT!TDIA.N^ MICBO-LBPIDOPXEBA.. 
175 
precedes and follows a third conspicuous quadrangular tawny 
fuscous patch at the end of the cell : cilia pale ochreous, heavily 
sprinkled with purplish fuscous. Exp. al. 16 mm. Bind wings 
greyish brown. Abdomen grejash brown ; anal tuft slightly paler. 
Legs greyish cinereous, hind tarsal joints handed with purplish 
fuscous. 
Type, d" Mus. Wlsm. 
Hah. West Indies — Grenada (Balthazar, 2.50 ft., windward 
side, 10 V. — H. H. Smith). Unique. 
117. Bazira, Wkr. 
= § Eddaba, Wkr. 
302. Baziea xylinella, Wkr. 
Eddara anjUnella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXVIII. 518 
(1863) \ Bazira xifUnella, Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M. XXX. 1009 
(1863)^ ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891, 516, .545 (1892)-'. 
Hab. West Indies — Jamaica ''\ 
INDEX. 
InTalid names are printed in italics ; = denotes that the name in italics is a 
synonym ; |= a homonym : t= wrongly written either in inception or in 
adoption; | signifies the correction of a name hitherto wrongly written; 
#= invalid as not containing the type of the conception. Kauies within 
square brackets are referred to in this paper, but are not connected witli 
the W'est-Indian fauna. 
DIVISIONS. 
Page 
^GERIAD^ 62 
Anaphoein^ 169 
AEGYBKSTHIANiE l-ol 
Batrachedhix^ 10.3 
Bedellian^ 144 
BLASTOBASID^ 91 
COLEOPHORIN^ 102 
CoSMOPTEBYGINiE 105 
Dendroneuein-s: 141 
ELACHISTII)^ 102 
Epiblemid^, Meyr. 
= Oletheeutin^ .... 121 
Eeechthian^ 1.55 
GELECHIAD^ 62 
Gltphipteeygin^ 117 
Geacilaeian^ 145 
GsAFHOLITHIN^, Fern. 
=Oletheeutin^ 121 
HELIOZELIN.a! HO 
Hblodinin^ 108 
HYPONOMEUTID^.... 112 
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Hyponomeutinje 112 
Laveenin^ 107 
Lyonetian^ 141 
GECOPHORID^ 88 
Olethrexit^, Hb. 
=Oletheeutin^ .... 121 
Olethreutin^ 121 
Opostegin^ 1.39 
ORNEODJD^ Gl 
Phaloxiax^b 1.36 
Plutellin.e 117 
PTEROPHORIDyE 56 
PYRALIDINA 56 
SCYTHEIN^ Ill 
Setomorphin^ 168 
TINEID^E I3f) 
TINEINA 62 
TlNEIN^ 159 
TORTRIOID^ 121 
ToETEICINiE 131 
XYLORYCTID^ 97 
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[AcALLA, Hb. {vide Oxy- 
GRAPHA, Hb.) 131] 
*ACALLA, Meyr. = OXYGRA- 
PHA, Hb 1.31 
AcoMPSiA, Hb 82 
AcHOLOPHrs, Poey 173 
ACVBEUTA, Z. = TlQUA- 
DBA, Wkr 167 
^CSMIA, Tr. = Glyphi- 
PTEKYX, Hb 118 
yEjDiA, Dp. =Ethmia, Hb. 89 
JEtole, Chamb.=HELio- 
DiNEs, Stn 108 
[Alucita, L 59] 
*Alucita, Meyr.=PTEHO- 
PHOBus, Geoffi' 59 
*Alvcita, Z., aiict. = Or- 
NEODES, Ltr 61 
Amblothsidia, WIgrn.= 
Atteva, Wkr 112 
*Amfhisa, Fern. = Ucelo- 
STATHMA, Clem 136 
Amydria, Clem 157 
Anacampsis, Crt 79 
Ajjadasmus, Wkm 100 
Anaphora, Clem 172 
Ancylis, Hb 125 
Anestcsia, Hb. = Eth- 
jiiA, Hb 88 
Ant^otricha, Z 98 
Anybia, Stn 107 
^AfBELIA, Stph.=BACTRA, 
Steph 121 
Apinoglossa, Mschl. & 
Saalm 132 
^Apodia, Hein = Aristo- 
TELIA, Hb 68 
Archips, Hb 133 
Argy'hesthia, Hb 155 
Aristotelia, Hb 63 
^AsPiDiscA, Clem. = Cop- 
TODiscA, WIsm 143 
Atopocera, Wlsm 169 
Atteva, Wkr 112 
AuxiMOBASis, Wlsm 94 
Azims, Wkr. = Ethmia, 
Hb 89 
Bactra, Stph 121 
Balbis, Wlsm 128 
Bateachedba, Stn 104 
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Bazira, Wki- 175 
Blastobasis, Z 91 
Brachmia, Hb 62 
Bbachycrossata, Hein 
=AcoMPsiA, Hb 82 
BsAcnrcsossATA (Hein) 
Sect. B, Wlsm. = Hel- 
CYSTOGRAMMA, Z 83 
^Braclvnia, Stph. = 
Brachmia, Hb 62 
Brenthia, Clem 120 
BUCCULATRIX, Z 144 
Cacocharis, Wlsm 125 
CaCCECIA, Hb. = ARCHIPS, 
Hb 133 
C-enogenes, Wlsm 170 
Callimosema, Clem. = 
EucosMA, Hb 126 
CaSPOCAPSA, Tr. = CYDIA, 
Hb 130 
Cejuiostoma, Z. = Leu- 
COPTERA, Hb 141 
Ceratorrhineta, Z. 
(JWlsm.) 133 
i Ceeoeshineta, Z. = 
Ceratorrhineta, Z. 
(JWlsm.) 1.33 
tsAXTBE, Dp. = Ethmia, 
Hb 89 
Chokeqia, Z. = Tortyha, 
Wkr 120 
t Chr rsESTSiA , HS. = He- 
LIODINES, Stn 108 
Chry.soesthia, Hb., vide 
Heliodines, Stn 108 
§ CzADODES, Hein = 
Brachmia, Hb 62 
iCocHYiis, Tr. = Phalo- 
NiA, Hb 136 
Ccelostathma, Clem 136 
COLEOPHORA, Hb 102 
COMPSOSCHEMA, Wlsm. . . 142 
CoNCHrLis, Tr. (I Sdf.) = 
Phalonia, Hb 136 
COPOCEPCIA, Z. = POLY- 
hymno, C'bamb 77 
CopTODiscA, Wlsm 143 
CoEJNEA, Wkr. = Atteva, 
Wkr 112 
CoBisciuM, Z 154 
1897.] 
WEST-INBIAH" MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
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COSMOPTERYX, Hb 105 
Crocidosema, Z 127 
Cyct,oplasis, Clem 143 
Cydia, Hb 130 
*Cydia, Meyr. = Thiodia, 
Hb 125 
^Dacttlota, Suell. = Di- 
DACTYLOTA, VVlsOl 77 
Dendroneuea, Wlsm. . . 141 
DiALECTICA, Wlsm 160 
DiASTOMA, Mschl 100 
DiDACTYLOTA, Wlsm 77 
DlSTHTMNIA, Hb. = ETH- 
MiA, Hb 88 
DiTBIGONOPHORA, Wlsm. . 117 
Drepanoterma, Wlsm. . . 84 
^Eddasa, Wkr. = Bazira, 
Wki- 175 
Enarmonia, Hb 122 
Epiblema (Hb.), Meyr.= 
EucosMA, Hb 126 
*Efinotia, Meyr. = Eu- 
ceijs, Hb 129 
Episimus, Wlsm 122 
Ereunetis, Meyr 155 
Emgatis, Hein.=ARiSTO- 
TELIA, Hb 63 
Ethmia, Hb 88 
Euarne, Mschl. & Saalm. . 114 
Eucatoptus, Wlsm 69 
EucELis, Hb 129 
EucosMA, Hb 126 
EucosMOPHORA, Wlsm. . . 148 
EUDODACZES, Snell. — 
Brachmia, Hb 62 
EuLEPisTE, Wlsm 170 
^Er AGORA, 01em.=ARisTo- 
TELIA, Hb 63 
Feldeeia, Wlsm 171 
Gaubis, Hb 120 
Gelechia, Hb 72 
Geniadophora, Wlsm. . . 71 
Glyphidocera, Wlsm. . . 97 
Glyphipteryx, Hb 118 
\3Gltpbjftebtx, Crt. = 
Chrysoclista, Stn 118] 
GONIOTERILA, Wlsm 101 
Gracilaria, Hw 152 
Helcystogramma, Z 83 
Heligmocera, Wlsm 131 
Heliodines, Stn 108 
Heliozela, HS 110 
Hypoclopus, Wlsm. .... 170 
Hyponomeuta, Ltr 117 
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Page 
IcoNisMA, Wlsm 96 
Lathontogenus, Wlsm. . . 87 
^Leioptilus, Wlgrn. = 
Pterophorus, Geofir. . . 59 
^Leptia, Gn. = Bactba, 
Steph 121 
Leucophasma, Wlsm 1.54 
Leucoptera, Hb 141 
LiTHOCOLLETIS, Hb 145 
Malacotricha, Z 84 
Manchana, Wkr. = Ti- 
QUADRA, Wkr 167 
Melanoleuca, Stpb. = 
Ethmia, Hb 88 
Menesta, Clem 85 
MiM^SEOPTiLUS, Wlgrn. = 
Stenoptilia, Hb 08 
morophaga, hs 167 
Myrmecozela, Z 166 
OCHYROTICA, Wlsm 68 
(EciA, Wlsm Ill 
OSdematophoeus, 
Wlgrn. = Pterophorus, 
Geoffr 59 
CE'r^, Grt. = ATTEYA,AVkr. 112 
t OlB^EMATOPHOEUS, 
Wlgrn. = Pterophorus, 
Geoffi- 59 
Opostega, Z 139 
Orneodes, Ltr 69, 61 
Ornex, Tr 147 
OSCELZA, Wkr. = TlQUA- 
dba, Wki 167 
"f OXIGSAPSA, Hb. JOxY- 
grapha, Wilk 131 
OXYGRAPHA, Hb. (JWilk.). 131 
JP^DISCA, Tr. = EuCOSMA, 
Hb 126 
Pammeces, Z 103 
Paratiquadra, Wlsm. . . 116 
iPERONEAj Crt. = OXY- 
GRAPHA, Hb 131 
Pexicnemibia, Mschl. . . 167 
Phalonia, Hb 136 
Phoxoftemis, Tr. = An- 
CYLis, Hb 125 
-\Phoxoftebyx, Sdf.=AN- 
CYLis, Hb 125 
Pigritia, Clem 93 
Pilanophora, Wlsm 171 
Platynota, Clem . 134 
Platyptilia, Hb 67 
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[Jan. 19, 
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Plutella, Schrk 117 
^PcECILOPTEBA, Clem. = 
Atteva, Wkr 112 
PoLYHYMxo, Chamb 77 
PSECADIA, Hb.= ETHMIA, 
Hb 88 
PSEUDANAPHOHA, WIsm. . 174 
Pterophorcs, Geoffr 58 
Ptychamorbia, Wlsni. . . 133 
Becurvamia (Hw.), 
Meyr. = AcoMPSiA, Hb. . . 82 
Scintilla, Gn . = Atteva, 
Wkr 112 
*Se3IASIA, Stgr. & \\k. = 
TmoDiA, Hb 125 
Sesia, F 62 
Setomorpha, Z 168 
Spanioptila, Wlsin 148 
Sphen.\rches, Meyr 56 
Stexoptilia, Hb 58 
§Steepsiceeos, ]\leyr. = 
Sthepsichates, MejT. . 127 
Sthepsicr.\tes, Meyr 127 
Syblis, Gn. = Attev.*., 
Wkr 112 
Syntomactis, Meyr 104 
Tachtptilia, Hein. = 
Anacampsis, Crt 79 
Tamarrha, Wkr 114 
*Teeas, Hein. = Oxygba- 
PHA, Hb 131 
[ Tebas, Tr. = Rhacodia, 
Hb 131] 
Thiodia, Hb 125 
Thyraylia, Wlsm 138 
Tinea, L 1.59 
TiNEOLA, HS 165 
TlQUADRA, Wkr 167 
Tischeria, Z 145 
Tortrlx, L 1.33 
Tortyra, Wkr 120 
Trapeziophora, Wlsm. . . 118 
Trichoptilus, ^"v'lsm 56 
Trichostibas, Z 114 
Teichotaphe, Clem 83 
Teycsesis, Gn. = Eu- 
CELis, Hb 129 
UssASA, Wkr. = Glyphi- 
PTERYX, Hb 118 
VEXTIA,Wkr. = TlQtJADRA, 
Wkr 167 
Xen'olechia, Meyr 72 
Xylesthia, Clem 166 
t Yponomeuta, Ltr. JHy- 
ponomeuta, Sdf 117 
Ypsolophus, F 86 
SPECIES. 
[When the author's name is omitted, '" Wlsm." is to be uaderstoocL] 
No. 
abnormalis 126 
abraxasella, Wkr 85 
abrupta 208 
*acanthodactylus, Z. = cosmo- 
dactyla, Hb 4 
adusta 209 
adiistella, Z. = nivosella, 
Wkr 143 
adustipennis 79 
seneoalbida 251 
aeneocapitella 237 
aeolella 248 
agraphodactylus, Wkr. . . 17 
agrotipennella, Grt. =popea- 
nella, Clem 289 
ahenea 137 
alhana, F 112 
albanus, F. 112 
albicapitana . : 177 
albimacula (Cacocharis) . . 169 
No. 
albimacula (Lithocolletis) . . 223 
albistrigella, Mscld 120 
albomarginatuoi 242 
aUutana, Z. = argutanus, 
Clem 167 
altheana, Mn.^plebeiana, Z. 174 
ambrosia, Mrt. =inc[uinatiis, 
Z. 7 
anapkorella 275 
augulatella 280 
angulifera 65 
anisodacti/liui,Wkv. = CASei, 
Z. 2 
annulicornis 21 
[anthophaga, Stt/r. (Icon- 
isma ?), p. 96.]' 
apicepuuctella 2-36 
arcasalis, Wkr 291 
argentifroutella 225 
argillacea 89 
1897.] 
WEST-INDIAS MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
179 
No. 
argutana, Clem 167 
argutanus, Clem 167 
aspera, Z 277 
aspilodactylus, Wkr. = agra- 
phodactylus, Wkr 17 
assumptana, Wkr 176 
attenuatella, Wkr 123 
attenuatum 243 
audax 103 
augmentana, 7i 165 
augmentanus, Z. 165 
[aurana, F. (Eucelis), p. 129.] 
au7-ea, Fitch, = pimctella, 
Cram. <§• Stoll 139 
aureoapicella, Miclil.= abra- 
xasella, Wkr 85 
aiireoflamma 135 
auriferalis, Wkr 161 
[aurifluella, Sb. (Ethmia), 
p. 88.]. 
aurofasmana^ SneU. = auri- 
feralis, Wkr 161 
auromaculata 270 
austraUs 274 
autochthones 171 
basalis, Mschl. 13 
basiplagata 217 
^basqueella, Chamb. = Jbos- 
quella, Chamb 46 
bellela, Wkr. = roseosufFu- 
sella, Clem 27 
[bergstrsesserella, F. (G lyphi- 
pteryx), p. 119.] 
biatomella 94 
bicolor 53 
biferana, Wkr 159 
bimarginellum 215 
binlTeipunctata 49 
bipunctatus, Mschl 15 
bombycina, Z. — plumifron- 
teilus, Clem 298 
bosquella, Chamb , . . . 46 
brevipalpella 99 
breviplicana 196 
brevistrigata 252 
bunteana, Rbs .... 205 
[burmanniana, Cram. (§• 
Stoll (Gonioterma), p. lOl.] 
eaffer, Z. 2 
calidana, Z. 192 
calligera, Z. 145 
calvifrons 183 
capitella, F. 45 
catenana 191 
[caudana, F. (lihacodia), 
p. 131.] 
No. 
caudatella . . ^ 156 
centetes, Meyr 1 
cervinella 119 
chalybeichroa 33 
[cinerella, CI. (Acompsia), 
p. 82.] 
cinereocervina 72 
[circulana, Hb. Eucosma), 
p. 126.] 
[citran3,lf6.('Thiodia),p.l25.] 
cotfeella, G.M. ^ Prrott. . . 214 
coffeellum, Mann 214 
comburana, Mschl. 187 
compta, Clem.=punctella, 
Cram. Sf Stoll 139 
conciirsana, Wkr. = fiave- 
dana, Clem 193 
"^confusa, Ckrll. = confuseUa, 
Wkr 80 
confuseUa, Wkr 80 
confusellus, Wkr 80 
connexana, Wkr. = rostrana, 
Wkr 195 
conspersa 127 
constans 101 
contubernalis, Z.=biferana, 
Wkr 159 
comifer 59 
cosmodactyla, Hb 4 
cosmodactylus 4 
costipunctella, Mschl. = bos- 
quella, Chamb 46 
crassicornis 31 
cretella 256 
[cristana, F. (Oxvgi-apha), 
p.131.] 
croeipunctella 43 
cruciferarum, Z.. , 153 
cubana, HS. 19 
cumulatella, Z. 265 
cuprea 136 
cupreella 232 
curvipunctella 129 
^dentella,Y.=s\miz.t9, F. .. 109 
desectella, Z. 64 
desmodiella, Clem 224 
diffusalis, Wkr. = caiFer, Z. . 2 
diluticomis 254 
dimidieUa 287 
diminutana 197 
direptalis, Wkr. = cosmodac- 
tyla, Hb 4 
[discopunctana, Cle7n. (Cce- 
lostathma), p. 136.] 
dlstigmatana 201 
dives 229 
12* 
180 
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No. 
divisa 271 
dominicella 104 
donatella, Wkr 47 
dorsivittella, Z. 26 
efioetana, Mschl 188 
eromene 22 
errantella 227 
eudactyla, F. ^ M 18 
excitana, Mschl 180 
exclarella, Mschl 48 
exornata, Z 86 
extranea 37 
exvaqana, Wkr.=sti'enuaua, 
Wkr 173 
familiaris, Z. 267 
fasciata 5 
fastuosa, Z. 141 
figurana, Z. 179 
flammulella 39 
flavedana, Clem 193 
flaviciliata 100 
flavicollis 182 
Jlaoocellana, Clem. = strenu- 
ana, Wkr 173 
flexuosa 218 
[foenella, L. (Eucosma), 
p. 126.] 
forficulella 150 
fragilella 260 
frontella 249 
f rontestrigata 269 
[fulgens, F.^ R 161] 
fulvidella 20 
fulviguttata, Z. 140 
\fulviguttdla, Wlsm. =fulvi- 
guttata, Z. 140 
[fumosa, Z. (Trichostibas), 
p. 114.] 
fuscostrigella, Chamb. = 
luteostrigella, Chamb. . . 54 
gelidella, Wkr 87 
gemmata, Grt. = punctella, 
Cram. <§• Stoll 139 
*gemmiferella ( ? Clem. ), 
Mschl. = attenuatella, 
^^nir 123 
gemmula 155 
[gilmdorsis, Z. = tenuis, 
F.^E.] 6] 
*giloidorsis, Hdm. =pumilio, 
' Z. 6 
*gilvidorsis, Hdm. = montis- 
christi, Wlsm 8 
glandiferella, Z. 38 
glaucopidella, Gn. = fulvi- 
guttata, Z. 140 
No. 
godmaui 57 
gracilis 93 
gregariella, Mrt. = desmodi- 
ella, Clem 224 
grenadella 282 
grenadensis 90 
griseana, F. 108 
[*(7ri'sea?ia, Z. = zelleri, Wlsm. 
f Drnt 108] 
griseanum, Z 108 
gudmaunella 52 
bedemanni 288 
heliopsiella, Chamb 220 
'\heliopsisella, Chamb. Jhelio- 
psiella 220 
[hexadactyla, L. (Orneodes), 
p. 59.] 
hirsutevestita 279 
ichthyochroa 199 
ignita, Z. = auriferalis, 
Wkr 161 
immunda, Z Ill 
immundus, Z. Ill 
indignus 76 
ingricella, Mschl. = cou- 
fusella, Wkr 80 
inquinatus, Z. 7 
insignitana, Mschl 189 
insulai'is (Anacampsis) .... 63 
insularis (Auximobasis) . . 96 
iusulella 231 
iinsulsella, Wlsm.=insulella, 
Wlsm. 231 
intermediella,GhPimh. = pudi- 
bundella, Z. 28 
iophlebia, Z. 148 
Isabella, F. Sf R 113 
jamaicana, Wlsm 163 
jamaicaua, Wkr 190 
jamaicensis 51 
joviella 82 
jiiventelliis 77 
kirhvi, Mschl 88 
kittella 25 
^lacteella, F. = albanus, F. . . 112 
lacteipalpis 207 
lacticaudellum 71 
fla?icealana, Hb 162 
lanceolaaa, Hb 162 
lanceolata 250 
lapidella 62 
laterana, Rbs. = flavedana, 
Clem 193 
laterestriata 55 
[lativittella, Wkr. = walchi- 
ana, Cram. Sf Stoll 108] 
1897.] 
WEST-INDIAIf MICRO-LEPTDOPTEBA. 
181 
No. 
lava terana, Mill. = pleteiana, 
Z. 174 
lentiginosa, Z. 278 
lepidana, Clem 206 
lespedezce, Wlsm. = attenua- 
tella, Wkr 123 
leucocephala 44 
leucodocis, Z. 300 
[linneeUa, CI. (Chrysoclista), 
p. 118.] 
[literana, L. (Oxygrapha), 
p. ]31.] 
litnochronia 117 
livens 178 
longipalpana, Msckl 172 
lustromarginata 181 
luteostrigella, Chamb 54 
lycopersicella 36 
macrocera 102 
maculata 138 
maciilicornis 247 
mahalebella, Gn 151 
mahalebellus, Gn 151 
manellus, Mschl. 73 
mangelivora 60 
marginata 132 
marmoreipennis 154 
mediocris 95 
metallifera 131 
*microdactyh(S, Hdm. = bi- 
pimctatus, Mschl 15 
mimasalis, Wkr 292 
minuscula 246 
minutella, i^. 261 
mirsWR, Mschl 276 
laonochroma 185 
[monodactyla, L. (Ptero- 
phorus), p. 58.] 
montis-chiisti 8 
negans 184 
nesiotes 166 
nesitis 241 
nigrovitta 266 
niveipunctata 297 
niveipunctatus 297 
nivosella, Wkr 143 
noctivaga 301 
noctuella, Mdnr.=cofEeella, 
G.M (§• Prrott 214 
noctuina 293 
nolckenii, F. & B. = helio- 
psiella, Chamb 220 
notatella, Wkr 84 
obligatella, Mschl 144 
obseratella, Z. 67 
occultum 283 
No. 
ocbracea, Mschl 284 
ochraceella, Tgstr 273 
[ophtlialmicaua, Hb. (Acalla), 
p. 131.J 
ornata 230 
ornatipalpella 23 
ossipellis 9 
ostariella 24 
ovata, Z 146 
' oxydactyla 1 
"oxydactylus, Wkr 1 
paleaceua, Z. 14 
pallida, Z. 118 
pallidicostella 149 
[pallidochrella, Chamb 38] 
paUidorseUa, Z. 268 
paradisea 157 
parallelaua 198 
participatus, Mschl 16 
parvella, F 114 
parvellum, F. 114 
parvus (Pterophorus) .... 10 
parvus (Hypoclopus) 286 
\pastiilella, F. = punctella, 
Cram. 8f Stall 139 
paucella, Wkr 83 
paucellus, Wkr 83 
pavonacella, Clem 158 
■fpavotiicella, Chamb 158 
penicillata 34 
[pentadactyla, L. (Alucita), 
p. 59.] 
percussella, Z. 245 
per er/r (nana, Mschl. = ple- 
beiana, Z. 174 
permixteUa 235 
persimilella 98 
perspicua 40 
E)hantasmella 244 
phycidella, Z. (Blastobasis), 
p. 91.] 
[piceana, i.( Archips),p.l33.] 
picticornis (Aristotelia) .... 32 
picticornis (Coleophora) . . 116 
piperatella 128 
piperatus 75 
plebeiana, Z. 174 
plumbeolata 58 
plumella 262 
plumifrontella, Clem 298 
plumifrontellus, Clem 298 
poeyi 296 
[pomonella, L. (Cydia), pp. 
125, 130.] 
popeanella, Clem 289 
[populella, CI. (Anacampsis), p. 79.] 
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ON WEST-INDIAN MICRO- LEPIDOPTERA, 
[Jan. ]9, 
No. 
postpallesceun •'50 
prfestans 212 
Tprasastus, Mschl 12 
prolectana, Mscfil 202 
paoricopterella 66 
pudibundella, Z 28 
pudtbundeUa, GLamb. = rubi- 
della, Clem 35 
pulcliricornis 115 
pulicella 30 
pulverea 222 
pulvprella 239 
pumiliella 264 
pimiilio, Z. 6 
punctella, Cram. Sf Stoll . . 139 
Ipusilla, .Z 285] 
*pu-n/Ia, Wlsm. = parvus, 
W/sm 285 
pusillidactyla, WIvr 3 
pusillkluctylus, Wkr 3 
\pustulaia, F. = punctella, 
Crum. Sf Stoll 139 
mistulella, F. = punctella, 
Cram. ^ Stoll 139 
quinqueguttata 134 
quinquepuiictella 61 
recticostella 105 
reduplicata 253 
reflexus, F. 295 
rendalli 234 
repandana, IJ'kr 194 
restitidana, Wkr. = rostrana, 
Wkr 195 
rhizopliorae 21G 
rimulalis, Z 160 
riviilella, Mschl. = capitella, 
F. 45 
7-obifstella, Wkr. = capitella , 
F. 45 
[roesella, L. (Heliodines), 
p. 108.J 
■frosastiff'u.'^ella, Chamb. = 
rosen8iif?'u,«ella, Clem 27 
roseosuffusella, Clem 27 
rostrana, TlVcr 195 
rotimdipennis 186 
rttbensella, Chanib. = rubi- 
della, Clejn 35 
rubidella, Cle7)i 35 
rupicella, Z. 281 
rusticus 74 
saltatrix 211 
sanctpe-cnicis 233 
sancti-vincenti 125 
[scalariella, Z. (Dialeotica), 
p. 150.] 
No. 
scardina, Z. =popeanella, 
Clem 289 
scbulzella, J". 133 
sciurella. 50 
scythropiella 255 
sella, Cbamb.=glandiferella, 
Z 38 
siderea 142 
similatella, Z. 238 
similis 124 
simplex 213 
[sinuilana, Hh. (Epinotia), 
_ p. 129.] 
sinuata, F. 109 
sinnatus, F 109 
smithiana 175 
[solandriana, L. (Eucosma), 
p. 126.1 
solenobiella 259 
[soraria, Z. (Anadasmus), 
p. 100.] 
sordidata, Z. 147 
sphenopliora 42 
spinosum 228 
squamosa 1 10 
stigniatopbora 121 
stratellus 78 
strenuana, TFTrp- 173 
8f r/(7ose//«,'Wkr. =coufusella, 
tVkr 80 
submicans 168 
subolivacea (Bla^tobnsis) . . 91 
siibolivacea (Plialcuia) .... 200 
sub.'similis 81 
subtilis, Hb. = punctella, 
Cram. Sr Stoll 139 
subversnna, Z. = slrenuana, 
Wkr 173 
sutfuniigata 106 
syno])hri/s, Meyr. = caffer, Z. 2 
tarsimaculata 122 
tecmdion , Z. = pusillidactj'la, 
TFXr 3 
tectonica, Mschl 203 
tegulella 69 
tenera, Z. = albanus, F. . . . . 112 
lenuicaudella 226 
[tenuis, F. S,- R 6] 
tetraonella 263 
thonife, Z. 11 
tibialis, Z 107 
tiscberiella 258 
tranaferranu, Wkr. f 164 
transferranus, Wkr 164 
translucida 41 
triangularis, Mschl 152 
1897.] 
ON THE EYES OF THE ORDER PRIMATES. 
183 
No. 
triangularis, Wlsm 92 
triatomella 290 
trigonella G8 
tripunctata 1.30 
tristis, F. & R. = biferana, 
Wkr 159 
trossulella 29 
umbraticostella 2-57 
umbratipalpis 286 
undosa 240 
unicolor 221 
unipuncta 219 
uterella 272 
variolata 97 
venticola 210 
vicinitata, Mscid 204 
vincentana, Wlsru. = trans- 
i'erranus, Wkr.+ 164 
No. 
vincentanus, WIs}n. = trans- 
fen-anus, JVkr.-\- 164 
■virididorsana, Mschl 170 
vitellus, Poey 294 
[walchiana, Cram. Sf Stall . 108] 
*walchiana, Z. = griseana, 
F 108 
zoa/A:er/, Wlsra.=cafier, Z. . , 2 
walaingbami, Mschl 299 
[wceberiana, Schiff. (Enar- 
monia), p. 122. J 
xanthnrrhoa, Z . = notatella, 
Wkr 84 
xylinella, Wkr 302 
*xylosteUa, Mschl. = crucifer- 
arum, Z. 153 
[zelleri, Wlsm. ^ Drnt 108] 
zingarella 70 
5. Observations on the Ophthalmoscopic Appearances of the 
Eyes of the Order Primates. By Gr. Lindsay Johnson, 
M.A.,M.D., F.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 
[Eeceived January 8, 1897.] 
(Plates I1.-VI.) 
Adopting the classification given in Sir W. Plower's classical work 
on the Mammals, I include in the order Primates : Man, Monkeys, 
Marmosets, and the suborder Lemuroidea. I have found that a 
comparison of the ophthalmoscopic appearances of the fundus 
oculi of the various members of this most important order enables 
us to arrive at certain definite conclusions, which I believe to be 
of interest to zoologists. 
All the animals, including Man, were examined by me in a 
darkened room with the same amount and the same kind of 
illumination, and also with the same degree of magnification. 
Only animals in perfect health were selected, and, so far as 
possible, several animals of the same species were examined in 
order to preclude the possibility of abnormal fundi. Moreover, in 
all cases both eyes were examined and ascertained to be similar in 
all respects before a drawing -was made. As a further precaution, 
each detail of the drawing as it was being painted by my artist, 
Mr. Head, was confirmed by myself in the living eye, and altered 
(if necessary) until it represented the original in all respects. 
As regards keeping the animals quiet, I found considerable 
difficulty at first, but as my experience increased the difficulties 
vanished. In no case was any drug or anaesthetic used, but in 
the case of a few of the wilder Monkeys a net was thrown over 
them. In all the other cases the animal was held gently by the 
keeper in his lap. The animal rarely struggled, and usually became