298 A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zygxnidee of Cuba. 



edging the basal abdominal segment, inferiorly, above. Finally, the ab- 

 domen is spotted with white laterally in the Cuban specimens, and the 

 antennae are curved towards their tips, but the first character is scarce- 

 ly discernible from above, and the last may have been unnaturally 

 changed by the French artist for the reason, perhaps, that these were 

 thought to look better straight or slightly and methodically curved 

 than with the twists given them by Nature. 



Perhaps it is hardly worth while considering whether a discordant 

 figure, to which no description is appended, does or does not represent 

 a certain insect, but I leave it to the Cuban Entomologists to decide the 

 matter, and to retain or reject a specific name which rests on no safe 

 foundation. 



Habitat.— Cuba, (Poey). Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



Number 298, Pocy's MS. Catalogue. 



In the structure of the corporal parts, " Ilippola syntomoides" is 

 closely allied to Hubner's Isanthrene chalciope. 



Hippola minima, n. s. (Plate 5, fig. 6, % ). 



Size, small. Dull blackish, with a bright cyaneous shade which is 

 very prominent on the abdomen above. 



Primaries narrow, produced at apices; external margin very oblique, 

 slightly rounded superiorly. A few white scales at base. At the mid- 

 dle of the wing, a white subquadrate spot below median nervure. A 

 larger white spot at the base of the median nervules, filling the inter- 

 spaces opposite the discal cell. Above and within this latter spot, and 

 obliquely placed with regard to it, is a smaller one below costa. Se- 

 condaries, narrow, slightly rounded below apices, resembling primaries; 

 an elongate white spot at base, subparallel with costa; beyond, an 

 ovate, obliquely placed, similar spot, at about apical third. 



Under surface of both pair, same as upper surface. 



Head, well extended; eyes prominent. Palpi, slight, with a few 

 whitish scales beneath; :i front," blackish cyaneous. 



Antenna?, moderate, not curved or twisted terminally, finely and 

 evenly pectinate. The upper surface of the antennal stem is covered 

 with brownish cyaneous scales , the under surface and pectinations are 

 brown, with the last ones of quite a pale, somewhat yellowish shade. 

 "Collar," blackish centrally, with very prominent white lateral spots. 

 Tegulrc and thorax, blackish cyaneous, with white, lateral scale 

 patches. 



Abdomen, cyaneous, with two large, lateral, white maculations over 

 the basal pouches. Laterally, the segments are spotted with white. 



