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3(3. Microloxia herbaria. 



Phal. Geom. herbaria Fabr. E. S. iii. 2, p. 162 (1794), W. Indies. 



jS^emoria paularia Moeschl. Ahh. Seiick. Ges. xiv. p. 68 (1888), Jamaica. 



Lissochlont intacta Warr., yov. Zool. sii. p. 318 (lOUo), Dominica, Cuba. 



It is fairly certain that the three species above mentioned, all described from 

 ishitids of the W. Indies, are identical. The green fades so soon, that it is very 

 rarely the case that a trace of the onter line of pale dots is visible. The pectinations 

 of the antennae of the c? are much longer and coarser than in typical Lissochlora, 

 to which I referred intacta. 



Nesipola gen. nov. 



Like Racheospila and Racheolopha, but distinguished by the dorsum having 

 neither raised crests nor white spots ; the first two segments are green, the rest 

 dull white ; in Miantoiwtii the whole dorsum is green, and the wings are not marked 

 by variable spots and blotches. 



Tyj)e : A'esipola impunctata spec. nov. 



Racheospila auonalaria Moeschl. from Porto Rico, 7?. ccntrifuijaria ? H.-Sch. 

 {=protractaria S H.-Sch.) from Cuba, and R. heterospila Hmpsn. from the 

 Bahamas {=albimacula Warr. from Sta. Lucia), all of them probably different island 

 forms of one and the same species, will belong here ; also R. stellataria Moeschl. 

 {^concentrata Warr.) from Jamaica. 



37. Nesipola impunctata spec. nov. 



Distinguished from all of the species above mentioned l)y the deeper, brighter 

 green of both wings ; the fringes are entirely green, without the reddish flecks 

 between the veins which are seen in the other forms ; and the hiudwing is distinctly 

 elbowed at vein 4. In the varying development of the blotches beyond onter line 

 it agrees with centrifayaria H.-S. Of the six examples, all ? ? , that I have seen 

 one has the large oval whitish lilotch in fore wing reaching from vein 6 to 1 

 and edged with reddish, and a smaller whitish blotch iu hindwing above vein 1 ; 

 a second has the same blotches dull reddish ; two others have a small snow-white 

 red-edged round spot on the forewing between veins 2 and 3, and none on hindwing ; 

 the remaining two have the spot wholly dark red-brown ; so that in this form at all 

 events the variation in size and colour of the blotches is not sexual, as was supposed 

 by Herrich-Schaeher might be the case in centrij'ugaria. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



6 ? ¥ from Dominica, January, February, 1905 (E. A. Agar). 



In his description ui ceiitrij'idjaria from 3 ? ? (Corr.-Bl. Rei/eiub. 1870, p. 182) 

 Herrich-Schaeffer speaks of the first as having the blotch of forewing smaller, and 

 not reaching below vein 2 (jjerhaps a spot only between veins 2 and 3) ; the second 

 as having the blotch large and extending from vein 6 to 1, and filled up with 

 reddish grey ; wliile the third had the blotch equally large, but white, edged ouly 

 with red ; neither he nor (iundlach {Cuba, p. 38.jJ mentions any spot at all on the 

 hindwing, while in their description of protractaria, the supposed S , both authors 

 state the spot of forewing to be entirely wanting. I have seen five examples 

 from Cuba, 3 ¥ ? and 2 cJcf ; 1 ? from Baracoa agrees with the second of 

 llerrich-Schaefi'er's ? ¥ , the blotch being large and reddish, but with a smaller 

 red blotch on hiudwing; a second ¥, from Santiago, is like it, but smaller and 

 brighter ; the third, from llolipiin, has a double white blotch from vein 3 nearlv 



