70 LOBD WALSINGHAM ON [Jan. 19, 



around their extreme tips. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings : 3 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. ; J Mus. Gudmann. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 4-8 IV. (bred from Acacia 

 arabica — Gudmann). 



§ B. Fore wings, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 separate. Hind wings, 3 and 4 

 separate ; with costal hair-pencil in S . 



34. Ettcatoptus penicillata , sp. n. 



Antenna; greyish. Palpi: second joint smooth but somewhat 

 stout ; white, but spotted externally with greyish fuscous, the 

 apical joint biannulate with the same. Head whitish ochreous. 

 Thorax light ochreous. Fore wings ochreous, mottled with greyish 

 fuscous and metallic steel-grey, with creamy-white streaks and 

 spots ; an oblique greyish-fuscous patch, edged with 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. 10 mm. Hind 

 icings : 6 with a conspicuous, long, brownish ochreous, expansible 

 hair-pencil arising near the base of the costa ; pale grey, cilia 

 brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish, faintly 

 spotted externally. 



Tiipe, 2 Mus. Gudmann ; 3 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. West Indies— Hatti (Cap Haiti, 20 V., Gudmann) ; San 

 Domingo (Monte Christi, 12 V., Gudmann); St. Ceoix, 28 IV. 

 (Hedemann) ; St. Thomas, 12-31 III. (Gudmann, Hedemann). 



35. Ettcatoptus rubidella, Clem. 

 = rubensella, Chamb. 9 ; =*pudibundella, Chamb. (necZ.). 

 Gelechia ? rubidella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 163, 434 

 (I860) 1 : Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. II. 121 (1863) 2 ; Stn. Tin. N. Am. 

 pp. x, 40, 115, 225 (1872) 3 . Gelechia rubensella, Chamb. Can. 

 Ent. IV. 193-4 (1872) 4 : Mrt. Can. Ent. VI. 222 (1874) \ Gele- 

 chia pudibundella, Chamb. Can. Ent. IX. 23 (1877) 6 . Gelechia 

 rubensella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G-. Surv. IV. 89, 147 (1878) \ 

 Gelechia rubidella, Chamb. Bull. U.S. G.G. Surv. IV. 147 (1878) *. 

 Gelechia (Erqatis) rubidella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 180-1 

 (1882) \ Gelechia rubensella, Pack. U.S. Dept. Agr. Up. Ent. V. 

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